Archive for Category: Columns

  • What the Crap?: Movie Adaptations of Videogames

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    I love a good quality movie. I generally go for the silly action flicks, like Terminator, Predator, etc., but I love comedies, and even the occasional drama. But honestly, what the crap are the game developers thinking when they come up with games based on movies, or movie producers come up with movies based on great game titles. They both are generally incredibly horrible, and yet no one seems to realize how much damage has been done. Here’s a list of the fairly well known ones.

  • Get Out of Your Damn House: X-Men in Indiana

    Columns Columns by Zack Huffman on

    What happens when you're rarely around a computer? Onlines columns that you write suffer for it. I was about to write a piece about an overnight bus trip I took with a bunch of liberal weekend warriors for a huge anti-war protest in D.C., which included an account of our sad descent into tourism taking us to a huge mall complete with a visit to the local arcade and a ridiculous videogame that had be designed for drunks and retards in bibs to catch their drool. Sadly, this is going to have to wait.

  • The Vana’diel Diaries (November 2006)

    Columns Columns by Steve Hamner on

    Well, I haven't gotten to Brenner. I haven't yet made Beseiged. I'm only slowly progressing in the 30s and leveling my subjob is still worse than pulling teeth. I have, however, started to get a genui

  • … of the Month: What’s up with all the 10s?

    Columns Columns by Matt Gardner on

    I’ve been wondering about this for awhile, particularly back when the late, great Stu “Fancy 10s Mickey Mouse Boy” Gipp was still with us. Why are there so many 10s given out in reviews? Correct me if I’m wrong (which I’m not, so don’t bother correcting me), but I thought that, under the clearly defined ratings system of GameCola (carefully set out by the Edicheif himself), a 10 indicates that a game isabsolutely perfect in that category. If that’s true (which it is), then why are 10s more prevalent than bad jokes on Mad TV? To quote the late, great naked Abe Lincoln, “What the crap?”

  • What the Crap?: Go-Karting

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on

    We need a realistic go-karting game.  Sure, Mario Kart kicks ass, but it ain't true to life.  I went to do some go-karting last weekend, and the times...they were good!  But I assure you, I can't g

  • Get Out of Your Damn House: Time Killers in Mississippi

    Columns Columns by Zack Huffman on

    About a year ago, most of us living in our dens of privilege heard something about a Hurricane Katrina and the havoc it wreaked on Louisiana and Mississippi. We watched news correspondents like Anderson Cooper flip out on live television when they came face to face with the savage destruction. For many of us, the destruction meant little more than the carnage we've already witnessed in piece of shit movies like Twister, Deep Impact and Carnosaur 1, 2 and 3. Much like with those flicks, we paid attention for about an hour and a half before looking for something else to occupy our time.

  • The Vana’diel Diaries (October 2006)

    Columns Columns by Steve Hamner on

    Subjobs are starting to become annoying. I find myself constantly having to go back and level WAR or NIN to keep up with the main jobs I'm pursuing (COR and RNG). I suppose I could just sit down for a

  • Digital Championship Wrestling: Ness vs. Sakura in a Chutes and Ladders Match

    Columns Columns by Paul Franzen on

    Paul: They're hanging from the rafters here in the new James Pond Memorial Coliseum, and who can blame them, after last month's EPIC scaffold match?

  • Low-Rent Adventures in Japan: A Konami Life on a Capcom Salary

    Columns Columns by Richo Rosai on

    You may have heard that things other than electronics are expensive in Japan. And if you just walk up to the most obvious shops and try to buy things that you normally associate with cheapness back home, you may well get this impression. Indeed, a loaf of bread, 10 slices of bologna and some mustard will fight your homesickness for the old trailer park for a while, but it won’t be easy on your wallet.

  • testgame.exe: Making the Adventure

    Columns Columns by Elizabeth Medina-Gray on

    Hey, remember waaaay back, like, a month ago or two ago, when testgame.exe: Making the Adventure and the updated game that went along with it had actual new things in it?  Like, new things with inter