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Critical Hits is a Trilogy

October 7, 2008 by Dave

From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief: The time has come once again where we indulge in a little celebration. A little over three years ago, I started the conversations that would eventually lead to founding Critical Hits. Looking back, we definitely started a bit rocky, and it took us a while to find what we […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: anniversary, blog, blogging, celebrate good times come on, stats, trilogy, year 3

The Professor X Paradox

October 2, 2008 by Dave

Many of us here at Critical Hits enjoy comics, especially of the superhero variety. So it’s natural to try and combine our love of roleplaying games with our love of superheroes into one solid package. Primarily, our experience with superhero games was in GURPS Supers. GURPS is a system we developed a fair amount of […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games

Impressions: Baltimore Comic-Con 2008

September 30, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’ve been to a fair number of conventions, but this past Sunday was my first time going to a strictly comic convention and I have to say the experience was pretty extraordinary.  Several of the other conventions I’ve been to have also been in the Baltimore Convention Center, and as we walked in my first […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured Tagged With: baltimore, baltimore comic con, BCC, comic con, Comics, darwyn cooke, mike mignola, Movies, scott kurtz, webcomics

Inq. of the Week: Who Reads Comics?

September 29, 2008 by Bartoneus

We should have provided an over/under on last week’s poll, I’d be curious to see who would have guessed that 52% of our voting readers are married gamers.  Coming in at second is 28% of you who are gamers and single, 16% are gamers and in relationships, with only 5 votes (3%) in the gamer […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: baltimore, comic con, Comics, Inquisition of the Week, newspaper funnies, webcomics

Review: “Eagle Eye”

September 24, 2008 by Bartoneus

Last night my wife and I had the privilege of seeing an advanced screening of the movie Eagle Eye, thanks to Paramount Pictures and local morning radio host Elliot in the Morning.  The movie is listed as an action/mystery/thriller and takes place in modern day America, staring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan with Rosaria Dawson, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: eagle eye, fiction, movie, Reviews, science fiction, technology

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

The Top 10 Songs that Should Never be in Rock Band

September 17, 2008 by Bartoneus

I’m sure it’s happened to many of you, listening to the radio either in the car or at work and hearing a particular song and thinking, “Damn, this song really should be in Rock Band!”  Apparently this happened so much that our friend DrScotto began to reply with simply, “EVERY song should be in Rock […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, Music, rockband, rockband 2, songs, top 10, Video Games, videogames

Inq. of the Week: 4th Edition Classes?

September 15, 2008 by Bartoneus

We’re finally back on a regular schedule, and temperatures are beginning to drop into that lovely cool – comfortable range (for about a week, that’s how long fall lasts in Maryland), it’s becoming clear that summer is drawing to a close.  Last week Dave asked how many of you partake in the monk-like practice of […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: 4th Edition, classes, D&D, dnd, dnd4e, Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, roleplaying, Roleplaying Games, 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 […]

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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

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