Archive for Category: Columns

  • Quantum Geek: Episode 20 – In Which a Banana Pun Is Very Carefully Avoided

    Columns Columns by Michael Ridgaway on Comments2

    Rick was aghast, though not for reasons one would think. Yes, he was extremely worried about his friends stuck in his creation and could do nothing but watch as his they struggled through the games, but that seemed like a distant memory now. Tom was waltzing his way through The Secret of Monkey Island, completely ignoring all of the puzzles, and it was working. As a child Rick had spent days trying to figure out where to use every item and clicking on each and every object on screen just in case it might be important, whereas Tom just reacted as he would in the real world (or at least, a completely fictional real world). Need a ship but Stan the Salesman is in the way? Knock him off the dock and steal it. Need a crew? Promise anyone who comes along they can have the ship when you’re done. Don’t know where you’re going? Just follow the obviously glowing outline of the ghost ship. At this moment, Rick both admired and hated Tom for his ingenuity.

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    Gamer Girlfriend: Alley Cat 2: Rise of the Ninja Kitty

    Columns Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on Comments2

    I think they should make a game about my cat. Her life is an adventure unto itself. See, most cats just like to take it easy. Their daily routines involve a lot of sleeping, and lounging, and the occa

  • Minus the Pudding Special Edition: Indie Games Winter Uprising

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on Comments4

    Hello everyone, and welcome to "Minus the Pudding," where I have to get this intro out of the way now, because I have friggin' fourteen games to talk about today. Why's that? Because today, we're going to be talking about all of the games featured in the "Indie Games Winter Uprising." The Uprising (or, maybe THE UPRISING, because how much cooler does that look?) is an attempt on the part of certain XBLI developers to make sure everyone know that, hey, sometimes, good XBLI games are released, too, in addition to all the penis massagers The way they're doing this is by flooding the service with a whole bunch of good games, all at the same time, which is pretty much the opposite of what normally happens.

  • Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on Comments3

    Welcome to the December edition of those wonderful appendages we call the PSYCHIC THUMBS. You know it's the December edition of the THUMBS...because the calendar says it is December. So! Let's get rig

  • The L/ate List Apocalyptic [NSFW]

    Columns Columns by Travis Combs on

    I’ve been gone a long time. At least, it feels like a long time. I’ve missed you guys, and I’ve missed writing for this site. GameCola has always been really good to me, even if I haven’t always been really good to it. Missed deadlines, late articles, angry editors…all in a day’s work for the world’s most insensitive writer. But wait, come back! I’ve changed, I swear! Bear with me and I’ll make it worth your while. Let’s just go over a few quick things so you can get to know me better, then we’ll be all done with the hand shaking, bullshitting nonsense and we can move along to talking about the one thing you and I definitely have in common, or else you wouldn’t be here;

  • The GameCola Interview: Abraham Lincoln

    Columns Columns by Michael Gray on Comments2

    GameCola interviews Abraham Lincoln.

  • This Week in Virtual Console

    Columns Columns by Michael Gray on Comments1

    Great news, everyone! Former GameCola staff writer Michael Gray had some free time over the recent Thanksgiving break, and not only was he able to participate in a podcast, but he also promised to wri

  • Gamera Obscura: Rhyme Rider Kerorican

    Columns Columns by Jeff Day on Comments2

    Over 8 million people purchased Halo 3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas sold a whopping 12 million. And Nintendo can't defecate out Pokémon and "Wii Insert Random Thing To Do Here" games fast enough to

  • Versus Mode: The Next-Gen, FMV Games, XBLI Garbage, and More

    Columns Columns by GameCola on

    XBLI developer Robert Boyd and GC staff writer Christian Porter discuss whether we're ready for the next-gen, FMV games, garbage on XBLI, and more.

  • Impaired Closed Captioning: Super Mario Bros. 2

    Columns Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on Comments4

    In early 2010, Google introduced a Transcribe Audio feature to YouTube that translated all speech in a video into useful captions mangled the heck out of my Mega Man videos, telling my viewers that "w