Archive for Category: Columns

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Greetings, faithful readers, and welcome to this month's edition of textgame.exe: Making the Adventure. Now, I know what you're thinking.  "Oh, that Lizo," I hear you say, "She never does any work on

  • Cheat Codes for Getting Out of Your Damn House

    Columns Columns by Zack Huffman on

    Greetings to all eight of my readers. Sorry I wasn't around last month to supply you with half-assed writing and mean-spirited personal attacks. But then, we all know that I haven't written anything w

  • … of the Month: Magic: The Gathering

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on

    Hey hey hey! Filling in for the elusive Mr. Gardner this month will be me, Eric Regan: creator of THE AWESOME. Handheld systems are a GOOD idea. No one is disputing this. However, not every kind of game works on handheld systems. Ever trying playing a FPS on one? Yeah, not so fun. RPGs? Eh, theywork like on any system. Action games?

  • … of the Month: Top 10 Most Badass Videogame Women!

    Columns Columns by Matt Gardner on

    OK, there’s not really much to say here, other than the following list is arranged from 10 to 1 with 1 being the most badass videogame woman of all time. I will, as always, be hoping to have reader feedback. More on that after the list! Oh, one note: All of these characters are party members or controlled by the player in some way. I’m not including anyone who just appears in a videogame.

  • Top of the Heap: Games Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

    Columns Columns by Christian Porter on

    For the past five months I’ve been trying very hard to hide the fact that I’m just a poor man’s Seanbaby. This month I’ve officially given up, because this month's heap is all about games starring The Muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme.

  • Captain Eric’s Super Thumb Feature Presentation

    Columns Columns by Eric Regan on

    WELCOME! This is the latest, greatest and absolute best version of THE SUPER THUMBS you will be viewing this month!  We're coming back strong after a month of pixilated awesomeness that I thought co

  • Link’s Burden: Time to Save the World Again #3

    Columns Columns by Gina Holechko on

    This month in Link's Burden, Link comes across a bombastic opportunity.  Namely, a quick gander at Atlus's recent addition to the gaming world Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja for Nintendo's DS.

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    So it’s now been exactly two years since I started writing testgame.exe: Making the Adventure for GameCola. The years have just flown by, haven’t they? I thought that, this month, I’d take a look back at the early days of testgame. No, I’m not just going to repeat the same sort of thing I did for the January issue, in which I compared early production stills in the game to what the game looks like now.

  • Poor Player’s Paradise

    Columns Columns by Andy Zintl on

    So, here I am again, finding myself writing this column mere hours before the deadline.  And I realize I don't have any free games to really write about—none that really excite me, anyway.  I gues

  • Inside the Guide: Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor

    Columns Columns by Michael Gray on

    Hello everyone, and welcome to Inside the Guide: the only column that gives you an insider's view of the art of writing videogame guides. This month I'm discussing Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor M