First, how about some shameless pimping! Did you know you can buy a wide variety of products from the Critical Hits Amazon Store? It doesn’t cost you any extra to buy what you were going to anyway, and a little bit gets kicked back to us so we can pay server costs and keep the […]
Archives for 2006
Child's Play – Penny Arcade Contest
Last wednesday Gabe from Penny Arcade ran a contest to give away a group of tickets to their Child’s Play Charity Dinner that is being held in Washington state tomorrow, the contest was to do a three-panel comic that had to include the following elements: – The 2006 Child’s Play Logo – A Cat – […]
YouTube of the Week: Critical Drunk Edition
Once again, my idea gets totally ripped off. Regardless, this video is hilarious, and makes me glad that my College Based d20 game is a lot different than this. Found via Extralife.
Inq. of the Week: More Games!
This week’s inquisition is more of a follow-up to our Third Gift Guide that focused on Games. There are just too many games out these days, whether they’re videogames, boardgames, or tabletop RPGs, we here at Critical Hits can’t possibly play them all and much less know which ones out of each category are going […]
Review: Eragon
Title: Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) Author: Christopher Paolini Year of Publication: 2004 Genre: Fantasy Length: (I sold my copy, so I don’t have anything to check. Probably at least 300 pages) Rating: 2/5 – Good practice for focusing the eyes on letters* Review: A generic tale of a boy and his dragon. I could really […]
Set Collection
Sometimes… ok, most of the time… you won’t have a complete game. You’ll have a type of game, or a theme, or a mechanic. And sometimes with that mechanic, you’ll need some other mechanics to actually make a game. This happened to a game designer friend of mine recently who had a group of crazy-good […]
Critical Hits Gift Guide #3: Games
First, let me give a big shoutout to Ogrecave and their yearly Holiday Gift Guide on games. I’ve found quite a few great games through there and the guys who put it together are very knowledgeable. They focus on a few specific areas of games and list a bunch for each. Also, Boardgamegeek has their […]
Houston…
Wii Have a Problem! Check it out, a rather excellent site chronicling incidents involving the Wii’s controller and abused televisions the world over! This one particular image is fantastic, as once you’ve thrown your Wii controller smack through your TV, nothing better to do then draw it on an etch-a-sketch! I sincerely hope it’s real, […]
Even the Diligent can be Consumed
There is a great monster in my life now, a gnawing, gnashing, biting, consuming beast that thrashes its way into every day of life. It can barely be satiated, and only with the expenditure of great resources may it be contained. You might think you have obligations, or free time, or even a bit of […]
YouTube of the Week: HALP STUCK C64 Edition
A hamster is stuck in Monty On The Run, an old videogame. Oddly hypnotizing. Found via Boingboing.
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