Archive for Tag: Paul Franzen
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Super Tofu Boy is a Thing
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 
1 That sure didn't take long. About a month after Super Meat Boy was released for XBLA, PETA made it the target for its latest parody Flash game. PETA, the organization that tried to convince people to start calling fish "sea kittens," is no stranger to ridiculousness or videogame parodies. You may remember that they've previously released a parody of Cooking Mama in which the eponymous "Mama" is a bloodthirsty maniac, and a parody of Mario called Super Chick Sisters, in which you need to rescue Pamela Anderson from Colonel Sanders (I'm serious).
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Two Worlds II Rocks Out
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 3 It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the original Two Worlds. No, Captain Eric wasn't lying when he mentioned that in Psychic Thumbs---I really did enjoy Two Worlds. I didn't come across too many o
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GC Podcast #32: Crossover Games
Podcasts by Alex Jedraszczak on With the vaguely recent news about a Phoenix Wright/Professor Layton crossover, we here at GameCola had a podcast about crossover games!
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Epic Mickey Doesn’t Look Horrible
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 6 I've had this weird kind of inverted bell curve of interest regarding Epic Monkey. It looked super-interesting when all we had was concept art like this, then I stopped caring when Warren Spector rev
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Did I Spell “Matryoshka” Right?
News Posts by Paul Franzen on On the heels of Costume Quest, Double Fine's downloadable RPG about trick-or-treating, the Tim Schafer-lead company has announced and released a new trailer for Stacking. Stacking is, of course, a vi
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Another Time Travel Game Announced!
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 1 Atlus announced today that it's bringing the time travel-centric RPG Radiant Historia to the U.S. next February. Why should you be excited? What, are you new? Time travel, man! Time travel! That's som
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Impaired Closed Captioning: Super Mario Bros. 2
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 4 In early 2010, Google introduced a Transcribe Audio feature to YouTube that translated all speech in a video into useful captions mangled the heck out of my Mega Man videos, telling my viewers that "w
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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Announced!
News Posts by Paul Franzen on 1 You know, I keep getting amped up for these LEGO games, because I loved the crap out of LEGO Star Wars (it was even voted as GameCola's Game of the Year for 2006!), but I've never actually played any
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OnLive MicroConsole Now Available for Pre-Order
News Posts by Paul Franzen on Big news, everyone! Joystiq reports that the OnLive MicroConsole is actually a thing, rather than a fever dream we all had after one too many free energy drink samples at last year's E3. Not only doe
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Donkey Kong Country Returns is Terrifying
News Posts by Paul Franzen on My fiancée and I have been playing a lot of Kirby's Epic Yarn lately, and holy crap, Donkey Kong Country Returns is pretty much the exact opposite of that. Whereas Kirby has cute enemies made out of