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YouTube Tuesday: Huge Success Edition

September 23, 2008 by Dave

For those of you not sick of the Portal end song yet (such as myself), and because I’m neck-deep in Typography homework myself, I present the above video.

Filed Under: Music, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: jonathan coulton, portal, the cake is a lie

Inq. of the Week: Gamers Get Some

September 23, 2008 by Dave

If you’re playing 4th edition, you want to be selling your soul for dark powers. The Warlock came out on top of last week’s poll asking what your favorite 4e class is. The new, improved Rogue comes in second, fueled by stabby stabby. The Fighter is a close third, with the other new class Warlord […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: gamers, husbands, relationships, wives

Thanks to some Gnomes, I have custom sounds

September 16, 2008 by Dave

So remember that contest I told you all to enter, where the prizes were custom RPG sounds from World of Twilights Studio? Turns out I won the grand prize. Funny, huh? (I also won a prize in the one-sentence NPC contest, so I guess pimping other people’s contests works.) Well, I’ve been emailing back and […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Review: “Soul Calibur IV”

September 11, 2008 by Dave

Synopsis: Soul Calibur IV maintains the core gameplay of the Soul Calibur series and features a fun (if unintuitive) character creation system, but misses out on a number of features that would have improved the title overall. Notes: This review is from a free review copy of the Xbox 360 version. Gameplay: The fighting and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Video Games

1d1000 Posts

September 10, 2008 by Dave

The day has finally arrived. This is officially our 1,000th post. (Or as joshx0rfz put it, l,ooo in reverse 1337. DID THAT JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?) While we’ll reserve much of the celebration for our third anniversary coming up in October (which may involve me spending a good deal of money to give the place […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anniversary, best of

YouTube of the Week: Let me tell you about my dire shark game Edition

September 9, 2008 by Dave

Hey, this board game that the esteemed Tom Vasel reviews here sounds pretty good, and it’s about a shark the size of a person chasing and biting limbs. How’s that for a coincidence that this game would have a video review posted during Dire Shark Week?

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Reviews, YouTube Tuesday

Inquisition of the Week: Blogging?

September 8, 2008 by Dave

Thanks for letting us know who you are! Not only do we like to attach the people to the online personas, but those of you who tell us what you like to read and what you don’t really help us determine what to write. Now that con season is over, it may be more difficult […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: blogging

YouTube of the Week: Don’t Feed the Batman after Midnight Edition

September 2, 2008 by Dave

A fan redone version of a segment from Gremlins. Be sure to check out the making of video too.

Filed Under: Movies, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: batman, gremlins, indiana jones

Review: “Treasure of Talon Pass”

September 2, 2008 by Dave

Synopsis: “Treasure of Talon Pass” is a an adventure for 4e D&D designed to take 2nd level characters to 3rd level. It is a fairly typical dungeon crawl that works well enough but also does not take advantage of environments and non-combat elements enough to make it more interesting than a string of combats. Production: […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4e, 4E d&d, fourth edition, free rpg day, treasure of talon pass

Done with World of Warcraft Forever

August 29, 2008 by Dave

I haven’t played World of Warcraft in several years, since a few months after the game was released. (I played for a while in the open beta before that.) At the time, I had a lot going on in my life, my internet connection wasn’t stable enough to play long term, and all my friends […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Video Games Tagged With: blizzard, poor customer service, world of warcraft

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