Archive for Category: Columns

  • 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

  • Gamer Girlfriend: An Obscure Prestige Class, Indeed

    Columns Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on Comments2

    Well, it’s official: after ten months of planning, organizing, coordinating, arranging, rearranging, and generally unleashing my Bridezilla Fury upon the world, I have finally attained the status of Gamer Wife. Along with the accompanying name changes and the addition of a new ring to the third finger of my left hand, I’ve noticed that the attainment of this obscure prestige class has caused a noticeable shift in how I view myself. Not only am I now the wife of a gamer, I can no longer deny that I myself have some “more-than-casual” gaming tendencies.

  • What the Crap?: Silly Sports Scarcity

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    I know there isn't much sports chatter here @ GameCola, but sports games are a great chance for non-athletic types to juke, putt, dunk, slide tackle, punch, headbutt...whatever your taste may be. In the olden days, sports games weren't simulations; they were what started the idea of "arcade" style, meaning you could sit down with a group of people and play a sport in an unrealistic and fun way, but still stay true to the basic nature of the sport's rules. There's not really that many videogames that do this anymore, and I don't understand why. Such games have a wide audience of both sports fans and multiplayer-game fans, and they're so damn fun to play. If you want a realistic sports game, just watch a real-life sport!

  • Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on Comments3

    So...it is time. Time again for the THUMBS to make their REGULAR appearance. REGULAR MONTHLY appearance! We are back on track, people!! This has to be the happiest moment in the lives of so many of y

  • Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Early last week, GameCola reported on some new changes that Microsoft made to the Xbox 360 dashboard, in an effort to accommodate Kinect users, and slowly shift the balance of power over from actual gamers to casual gamers. THE END IS OF GAMING NIGH! In addition to enabling support for the Kinect, the new dashboard update made everything brighter, friendlier, and cleaner; allowed for easier access to ESPN (which I'm pretty sure you don't need an Xbox to watch); and, most importantly, it moved where you can find Xbox Live Indie Games on the 360.

  • Games That Secretly Suck: PaRappa the Rapper

    Columns Columns by Nikola Suprak on Comments17

    PaRappa the Rapper is a beloved classic of the PlayStation era—but it secretly just sucks.

  • Versus Mode: Kinect, Grinding, The Jungle, and More [NSFW]

    Columns Columns by GameCola on Comments6

    GC writers Meteo Xavier and Justin Luschinski discuss the Kinect, grinding, Panasonic's The Jungle, and more.

  • Flash Flood: I PLAEYD A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1

    Columns Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on

    I will tell you this up front: I do not like Halloween. I do, however, need a topic for this edition of "Flash Flood," the column where I review Flash games and videogame-related Flash animations and

  • Gamera Obscura: Go! Go! Beckham: Adventure on Soccer Island

    Columns Columns by Jeff Day on

    Have you heard of that fancy sporting event known as "football"?