• Dear Readers: Absolutely Real Message Board Posts

    You know I’ve been doing this for like five years, right? Five whole years. That’s probably longer than some of you have been alive. (What? No it’s not.) That’s with one Dear Readers per month, one (at least!) review per month, one Digital Championship Wrestling per month, and one Gates of Life every other month. And that’s to say nothing of my old monthly column and the various feature articles I’ve written. And that’s to say nothing of spending my off-time writing for an on-campus publication and a magazine devoted to the best sorts of drapery to hang up in your dining room. (As it turns out, the best kinds are generally the ones made by companies advertising in the magazine. Who knew!)

  • Digital Championship Wrestling: Earthworm Jim vs. Dr. Robotnik in a Pit of Acid Match

    Hello everyone, and welcome once again to Digital Championship Wrestling! As always I'm Paul Franzen, and with me as always is my good friend "Captain" Eric Regan.

  • The Blackwell Legacy (PC)

    Wadjet Eye Games has done it again!

  • The Gates of Life: Episode 42 – What? Really?

    Necrostreeb: I’m the main character?! Seriously?

  • Dear Readers: MAGFest 5

    We—we being myself and my lovely girlfriend—arrived at the convention a little before noonish on its second full day, after stumbling around town for a bit because neither of us, despite being level-headed, soon-to-be college graduated pseudo-adults, had thought to take note of where the convention was actually being held, just that it was being held in a hotel in Vienna, VA: a town that—we were quick to discover—actually has more than one hotel.

  • Dear Readers: The Janish

    I really want to go to bed right now. It's warm. I almost said that it's warm and inviting, but then I realized how cliched that sounds. So I decided to say that it's just warm. Have I mentioned yet that I'm a little tired? I'd like to go to bed, but I can't—not until this column is finished, at least. For I, absolutely not following my own advice, have waited until the absolute very last minute to crank this puppy (wtf, is that even a phrase) out.

  • Digital Championship Wrestling: The Second Annual Dino Rikki Invitational Battle Royal

    Here we are, ladies and gentleman, with another EXCITING installment of Digital Championship Wrestling! Here beside me is my partner in announcement, ERIC. And guest host, Paul!

  • The Gates of Life: Episode 41 – FAKE n00b

    Rivers Duo: Oh right! That person isn't n00b! I know who it really is!

  • Sam & Max Season 1, Episode 2: Situation Comedy (PC)

    Episodic gaming just sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. It really does. I'm talking "buying a PS3 at launch and not immediately selling it on eBay" levels of awfulness. It sounds like an invitat

  • The 2006 GameCola Videogame Awards

    Welcome, welcome, GameCola fans across this great globe, to our yearly awards spectactular! I'd rather just get this underway without babbling too much in what is clearly filler text, but first: You'