Archive for Tag: rip-offs
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Fabricated News: Zynga’s New Games
News Posts by Michael Gray on 
2 Zynga is making more games which resemble games from other companies.
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on 3 It's pudding time.
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Minus the Pudding: The Best of Xbox Live Indie Games
Columns by Paul Franzen on After the last couple of games I had to play for "Minus the Pudding" (see the end of this article), I'm not sure I have it in me to write any more novel-length intro paragraphs. What you see is what you get. Come read about some games, or whatever. I don't care anymore.
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[NSFW] Dante’s Inferno & God of War III (PS3)
Reviews by Travis Combs on 1 Knock, knock. The door opens slowly. A young man stands at the doorway, hat in hand. "Yes?" "Are you...Kratos?" "Yes, who are you?" At this the young man rushes into Kratos, throwing his arms around h
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Flash Flood: Videos Inspired by Final Fantasy
Columns by Nathaniel Hoover on 1 My mission with this column is simple: to inform people about various Flash games and animations, be they amazing, appallingly atrocious, or astoundingly average. I'm not in it for the money (besides,
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Dear Readers: Stupid Things Developers do to Ruin Their Awesome Games: Part 2
Columns by Paul Franzen on 3 Hello world, and welcome to GameCola: the only videogame Web site on the entire Internet. In my "Dear Readers" column last month, I talked about stupid design mistakes developers make that nearly ruin their otherwise awesome videogames.
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Top of the Heap: Blatant Ripoffs (at the American Classic Arcade Museum)
Columns by Christian Porter on Growing up here in New Hampshire, I’ve found that most of the rest of the country knows us for three things—Adam Sandler, a severe lack of non-white people and an inordinate amount of man-on-cattle relations. What many people don’t know, and what makes the rest of the gaming community drool over our humble little state, is that we are also home to Funspot: the world’s largest functioning videogame arcade.
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Beauty & the Beast (IV)
Reviews by Paul Franzen on Out of all the Intellivision games I picked up at a yardsale a few months ago, this one is my favorite.
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Super Adventure Island (SNES)
Reviews by Matt Gardner on As with most wannabes, it just doesn't live up to what it was imitating.