Archive for Category: Columns
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Mid-Boss: The Mid-Boss Summer Awards
Columns by Stuart Gipp on 
1 Ah, summer—Mid-Boss doesn’t know (or care) about you, but summer always puts him in the mood for some arbitrary award-giving. There’s been a lot of upheaval in the videogame industry since last July, and it’s time for some light-hearted, bias-free, non-hyperbolic recognition of the products of such upheaval.
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Flash Flood: Mega Man Versus Everyone Else
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 2 Duels to the death are dangerous.
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Versus Mode: EGM’s Resurrection, Trophies, and More
Max from GameLemon.com and Josiah Pisciotta from Chronic Logic discuss current events in gaming. Topics include EGM's pending resurrection, Trophies and Achievements, and more.
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The Anger Dome: Pokémon Video Game Championships 2009
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on As some of you know, this past weekend I went up to Philadelphia to participate in the 2009 Pokémon Video Game Championships. Essentially it's a big tournament where Pokémon trainers face off agai
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Things Zach Rich Demands to See Before He Dies in 2020
When writing a prediction column like this, it's always fun to look back and see just how right your predictions were. Therefore, as we start every edition of "TZRDTSBHDI2020," we'll first look back a
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Dear Readers: Stupid Things Developers do to Ruin Their Awesome Games: Part 3
Columns by Paul Franzen on 1 In these Tough Economic Times, there is one thing that you, the GameCola fan, know you can have absolute faith in: GameCola itself.
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Flash Flood: Videos Inspired by Final Fantasy
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 1 My mission with this column is simple: to inform people about various Flash games and animations, be they amazing, appallingly atrocious, or astoundingly average. I'm not in it for the money (besides,
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Attack of the Clones: Sonic the Hedgehog (Part 1)
Columns by Stuart Gipp on 4 It's no secret that the success of the Sonic formula opened the floodgates to a host of imitators, with mascot-based platformers almost threatening to drown console owners in the nineties. Many of th
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Quantum Geek: Episode 15 – Zelda for Dummies
Columns by Michael Ridgaway on 2 "All right, I'll go over this one more time: get out your Deku Stick, run to the lit torch, set your stick on fire, then run to the unlit torch and light it." Tom had no idea how Alli could be so bad
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Gamer Girlfriend: Cate West and the Vanishing Eyesight
Columns by Vangie Ridgaway on 2 OK, I admit it, it’s been a long time since I played my DS. I’m not entirely sure why—I just lost the urge to play at some point. It might have happened sometime around the end of my Animal Crossing phase, or perhaps in the middle of my Diner Dash phase. At any rate, I stopped using it, and didn’t pick it up again for about eight months.