Archive for Category: Columns
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Dear Readers: Welcome to the New GameCola
Columns by Paul Franzen on 
12 Your introduction to the new site: its features, its writers, its new format, and its relationship to sixteenth-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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Gamera Obscura: Popeye: Ijiwaru Majo Sea Hag no Maki
Believe it or not, Japan must really like that Popeye character. I just hope that Japanese audiences don't consider Popeye as the embodiment of Western freedom, or else we're going to end up looking like ship-hugging, anchor-loving sea yokels with puffy arms and heroin-addict level spinach infatuations (not to mention the fact that our women all look like coat racks, which is straying farther and farther from the truth every year).
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Oh, the Humanity!: Gamer Girl
Columns by Michael Gray on Welcome to "Oh, the Humanity!", the column that reviews videogame-based movies and books. Today's book is Gamer Girl by Mari Macusi. Gamer Girl? Sounds like someone's trying to capitalize on the wild
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The Ten Reasons: Mega Man 2
Columns by Michael Gray on 3 Hello, and welcome to "The Ten Reasons," where I discuss ten reasons why I like or dislike a game. This month, I'm talking about Mega Man 2 for the NES, one of the rare sequels that is better than the
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The Ten Reasons: Decade Edition
Columns by Michael Gray on Welcome to "The Ten Reasons: Decade Edition." In this column, I'm going to discuss the various things that happened in videogames over the past ten years. There were high points (2003, 2007), low
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on 2 A round-up of the very few Xbox Live Indie Games that aren't soduku, including Don't Be Nervous Talking to Girls, Kissy Poo, and more.
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Dear Readers: Gamebeard
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on Mike: Hey Vangie, remember when we used to write for that site? You know, the one with the guy with the beard…actually a lot of the guys had beards…Gamebeard! That was it!
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Dear Readers: Six Things Zach Demands to See Implemented in the GameCola Re-launch That May or May Not Happen Before His Death in 2020
Columns by Zach Rich on I miss you all. I really do. This hiatus is as hard on me as it is on you. I wasn’t there for you during the final hours of the magazine format because I was spending the better part of June preparing to wear a frilly gown while crossing a stage, stopping in the middle of the stage to shake the hand of some guy I’ve never met, and receiving a piece of paper proclaiming my emancipation from a horrid jail cell I’d been cooped up in for the past four years.
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Dear Readers: Details of the Upcoming GameCola
Columns by Paul Franzen on IT'S OK. THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC. THE CRISIS HAS ENDED. No, I don't mean the crisis of "what the hell, Paul, why isn't GameCola's brand-spanking new website ready yet?"
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Dear Readers: GameCola’s Not Dead
Columns by Paul Franzen on 1 A video starring Post-It Notes about why the new site isn't ready yet, what's taking so long, and what you can expect when it's finally ready.