Inspired by this week’s Webcomic Weekend and the launch of the Wii in Japan, I ask the question: Why do you try to get/view things on the day they’re released, or why do you avoid doing so? To put it simply, do you feel the call of “IT MUST BE MINE!” or not?
All-Night Game Console Campouts (XKCD)
XKCD is another comic that doesn’t use a fancy art style (it’s all stick figures and simple line drawings) but is consistently hilarious. It makes a lot of math, programming, and video game jokes, but the punchlnes are usually unexpected. And then there are some that are downright sweet. While it wasn’t quite like that […]
Too Busy Photoshopping Boardgames (Poorly)
Sorry, too busy to write a full column this week. But here’s one of the many projects I’ve been working on lately: (source) (source) (source) This all is for the Boardgamegeek/Mattel Photoshop Contest. If you have a BGG login you can check the other entries so far and whether you have a login or not […]
Critical Hits Gift Guide #2: T-Shirts
The noble t-shirt. Ever a staple of the gamer wardrobe. If they made jeans with gamery stuff on them, I’m sure we’d buy that too. (Though gamer underwear may also begin to, no pun intended, start to take off…) So if you’d like to clothe a fellow gamer for the holidays, or you yourself are […]
A Critical Hit… of Deliciousness!
Your Thanksgiving wasn’t complete unless it featured… a d20 made of PECAN PIE! (via BoingBoing)
YouTube of the Week: Aquaros Eros Bevrage! Edition
By request, the original D&DD episode of Dexter’s Lab. Before there was the Dead Ale Wives, before the D&D movie… there was this.
Departures / Some Playtesting Principles
I just got my Wii flown in, and boy are my arms tired! No seriously, I’m sore. It’s probably due to going a bit nuts with Wii Sports Baseball, and having done a lot of lifting yesterday, but my right arm really does hurt. Still, so far, a lot of fun with the games. Apparently […]
Critical Hits Gift Guide #1: DVDs
Welcome to the first installment of the Critical Hits Gift Guide. We’ll be doing these every week until xmas, covering a different area of gaming related products scattered throughout the internet. Today, Gaming DVDs. It was only a few short years ago that gaming movies were considered things like Labyrinth and Mazes & Monsters. Sure, […]
YouTube of the Week: Super Hot Dog Eater Level 3 Edition
The best Saturday TV Funhouse I’ve seen in a long time. A parody of Dragonball Z starring the world champion hot dog eater, Kobayashi. Hilarious subbing on top of a great concept.
Werewolf Tilt
Over the last weekend, I was at Philcon. In the past, I have really enjoyed the game room there, but over the past few years, it’s gone down drastically in quality. This year I had the choice of playing Dork Tower, 12 player Apples to Apples, 8 player 10 color Zendo, or the Vampire CCG. […]
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