Archive for Category: Columns
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testgame.exe: Making the Adventure
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.
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Poor Player’s Paradise
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
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Inside the Guide: Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor
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
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Dear Readers: The GameCola FAQ
Columns by Paul Franzen on Progress is what we're all about here at GameCola, by which I mean you should check out the neat stuff I've been adding to the site lately. And by "neat stuff" I'm only really talking about two things—and by "two things" I mean "one completely new thing" and "one thing I sorta changed a little."
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Digital Championship Wrestling: Little Mac vs. Barret in a Piranha Death Match
Columns by Paul Franzen on Hello gamefans, and welcome to yet another exciting edition of Digital Championship Wrestling! As always I'm Paul Franzen alongside "Captain" Eric Regan, and this month...DCW...goes to the extreme.
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The Gates of Life: Episode 45 – Negotiate Like Some Negotiators
Columns by Matt Gardner on Rivers Duo: Look, sea bears, can’t we just work something out?
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Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: Emoticons
Columns by Richo Rosai on Emoticons are big. Here are some of the stupider ones, copied straight from my cell phone.
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The Gates of Life: Episode 44 – Two Heads are Better Than…OMG SEA BEARS?!
Columns by Paul Franzen on Render: Augh…my head…. Wait…wait why do I have really nice boobs all of a sudden?!
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Poor Player’s Paradise
Columns by Andy Zintl on To my faithful or not-so-faithful readers of the past few months, I have only one thing to say: "Free games suck!" That is the realization I have come to over the past month, having searched for a d
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Dear Readers: 7 is Above Average!
Columns by Paul Franzen on As part of my endless quest to produce as few of my own words as possible while still calling myself a "writer", I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to a comment posted by Matt Gardner in our review of Club House Games in last month's 'Cola.