Archive for Category: Columns
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What the Crap?: Silly Sports Scarcity
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!
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Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation
Columns by Eric Regan on 
3 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
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
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.
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Games That Secretly Suck: PaRappa the Rapper
Columns by Nikola Suprak on 17 PaRappa the Rapper is a beloved classic of the PlayStation era—but it secretly just sucks.
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Versus Mode: Kinect, Grinding, The Jungle, and More [NSFW]
GC writers Meteo Xavier and Justin Luschinski discuss the Kinect, grinding, Panasonic's The Jungle, and more.
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Flash Flood: I PLAEYD A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1
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
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Gamera Obscura: Go! Go! Beckham: Adventure on Soccer Island
Columns by Jeff Day on Have you heard of that fancy sporting event known as "football"?
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Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation
Columns by Eric Regan on 1 Welcome to the NEWEST edition of the thumbs that can (...but can't really) see the future! I would NOT like to point out that the last two months have seen more new THUMBS articles than the new GameCo
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Poor Player’s Paradise: All Under $25
Columns by Christian Porter on 1 The 2010 holiday season is rapidly approaching, and that means you only have a few more weeks before your extra money is monopolized by gifts for loved ones. Now's the time to blow as much extra money
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Inside the Guide: Video Walkthroughs for July, 2009
Columns by Michael Gray on 3 Michael Gray writes his final column for GameCola.