Archive for Category: Columns
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Are You Game?: Xbox 360
Columns by Sprite Monkey on 
1 The Xbox 360 has been alive and kicking for over two years now since November 2005. Yes, it's really been that long. That’s a lot of titles, and there have been more than a couple of misfires. It happens, but the key to life is knowing when not to step on a landmine, or, in this case, when not to drop your hard-earned cash on a developer’s sorry ass attempt at entertaining you (or a console that has a replacement rate higher than 16+%). So this article is for you. Here are the top ten Xbox 360 games since the console was released. This is your guide to cutting the crap and sticking to the pure essentials before you know full well what a "red ring of death" truly means. This is the measure of your game-itude, as all 10 of these titles should be on your shelf with no exceptions. Unless you have no thumbs—I guess that’s an exception.
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Virtual Console (February 2008)
Columns by Myrtle T. Blinkin on Your Aunt Martha likes wolves. She adopts them, you know, has at least six or seven of them. They tear up her house something awful, though, and piss all over her furniture.
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Bed, Bath, and… Beranda? [NSFW]
Columns by Richo Rosai on Bed, Bath, and... Beranda? Anyway, n00d pix of my girlfriend.OK, so I've been typing like 10 hours a day for the last several days. And today being no exception, let's let some pictures do most of the
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testgame.exe: Making the Adventure
Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on So how's everyone doing this month? Good? Great! I bet you're all here to check up on your favorite monthly article about the production of a little point-and-click adventure game we like to call
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Captain Eric’s Psychic Thumb Feature Presentation
Columns by Eric Regan on 1 Welcome back to the monthly gathering of words that makes even the grumpiest of people burst into sheer bliss! That's right—the Psychic Thumbs are back with even more in-depth coverage of the games you will...or probably will not be...playing in the upcoming months!
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Digital Championship Wrestling: Jaster Rogue vs. Manny Calavera in a Hell in a Cell Match!
Columns by Paul Franzen on HellowrestlingfansandwelcomeonceagaintoDCW,andOH MY GAWD, "Captain"ERICREGANISBACKBEHINDTHEBOOTHWITH ME.
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Versus Mode: Pause Buttons, Going Outside, the Virtual Console, and More
GC writers Alex Jedraszczak and Sprite Monkey discuss whether games need pause buttons, taxes on videogames, playing games on the Virtual Console vs. the original cartridges, and more.
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Dear Readers: The Best of Submissions/The Death of Submissions
Columns by Paul Franzen on 1 My Fanzens (or, perhaps, my Franbase...if you have a preference, post!)...this is a sad, sad day in the annals of GameCola history. You might've felt a little blue when we started dividing our issues into multiple pages.
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The Ten Reasons: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Part Two)
Columns by Michael Gray on 3 Hey everyone! Welcome to The Ten Reasons, the article where I discuss ten reasons why I like or dislike a game. This month, I'm bringing you Part Two of my discussion of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight
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Inside the Guide: Non-GameFAQs Guides
Columns by Michael Gray on 2 Today is a dark day. A day of pain. A day of suffering. Valentine's Day. I was going to spend tonight with my friend Marianne, so we could hold an anti-Valentine's Day pity party...but she was too bus