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Inq. of the Week: In the Movies?

October 9, 2006 by Bartoneus

Everyone’s heard that Peter Jackson is making a Halo movie, that Quinten Tarantino is not making a Half Life movie (as of now), and that Uwe Boll is going to knock Postal and Farcry clear into the worst 100.  At least everyone would expect Postal to make a crappy movie no matter who directed it.  […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games

Yo mama's so fiddly…

October 6, 2006 by Dave

This past week, I’ve come across two pages that have got me thinking about “fiddliness.” The first was a post on Boardgamegeek entitled “American style games vs. German style games: fiddly is good.” The second was about Magic: The Gathering’s new set entitled “Time Spiral.” Both got me thinking about how there’s good fiddly and […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats

Google Video of the Week: This is a SERIOUS game Edition

October 5, 2006 by Dave

(ok, not actually a new feature, but I had to post this one. It’s French with English subtitles, but totally worth it. Like an even more Indie “The Gamers.”)

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday

Count me out of the Civil War Bandwagon

October 3, 2006 by The Main Event

(spoilers ahead for Marvel’s Civil War series, specifically #4)

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Reviews

YouTube of the Week: Shortened Saga Edition

October 3, 2006 by Dave

Filed Under: Movies, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, YouTube Tuesday

Online gambling measure attached to Port Security Bill in Senate

October 2, 2006 by drscotto

In case you have not yet heard yet, my dear friends (and I mean that in all sincerity, without sarcasm) in the Republican party have successfully attached an anti-online gambling act to a recent measure address port security. This was a saavy political move done by majority leader Bill Frist as a means of ensuring […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, News, Poker, Video Games

Inquisition of the Week: One Year Later

October 2, 2006 by Dave

Critical-hits.com is one year old! We started in August of 2005 under the name “Great Justice” as a temporary site to get WordPress up to speed. Our staff then started exchanging emails about what to call the site. There were a number of names that I liked but were centered around “Nerd Pride” which not […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, News Tagged With: anniversary

Review: Straight Outta Lynwood

September 28, 2006 by Dave

After last Sunday’s premier of a Robot Chicken episode that featured a Weird Al video, the Adult Swim bump said something to the effect of: “If you took a time machine back to 1986 and said, in 20 years, Micheal Jackson = flamed out, Weird Al = still relevant, we’d have laughed our asses off.” […]

Filed Under: Critical Threats, Music, Reviews

Game Designers: WTF?

September 28, 2006 by Bartoneus

Something very disturbing happened in the last few days, a bunch of game developer’s blogs passed around discussions on balance (particularly in MMOs) and some of the conclusions that were made seem unsettling. A hilarious, and informative, summary can be found at WorldIV. The first part of the discussion I stumbled upon was at Psychochild’s […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Romantic Computers Cannot Cry

September 27, 2006 by Bartoneus

I’ll start off with an apology for not having a comic or any kind of new drawing for this week, it’s been an off week in general. I will, however, dazzle you with an amazing (and true) proverb! Pretty much all online sites with comments get innundated with spam, and we are no exception. Thankfully […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

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