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Happy Life Day!

December 25, 2007 by Dave

Happy Life Day from everyone at Critical Hits! We promise we won’t sing! (thanks to Andy Looney for the idea and RiffTRAX for helping me find it!)

Filed Under: Featured, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Inq. of the Week: 2007 vs. 2008

December 23, 2007 by Dave

Last week, we asked if the winter months = more gaming. While most of you don’t change your gaming habits, there were plenty of you who said you game all the much more when there’s snow on the ground, whether it be from more time at home or just the lack of schoolwork. I myself […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week Tagged With: games, gaming, winter

Critical Hits Gift Guide 2007: The Comics & Everything Else

December 20, 2007 by Dave

We’ve covered the games, now here’s everything else that you might buy for the Critical Hitter who’s expecting a little something special this holiday season. We start with the comics, then move into a miscellaneous pile of stuff that we recommend you buy right away!

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Featured Tagged With: design, games, gaming, holiday, marvel, seasonal

Inq. of the Week: 'Tis the Season

December 17, 2007 by Bartoneus

In Dave’s scandalous question from last week about everyone’s pirating habits we were not surprised to see that a lot of people do resort to downloading things online.  Interesting enough there was a spike in the results where people download content online illegally specifically when it is not available through any other means, illustrating what […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games Tagged With: games, gaming, Inquisition of the Week, seasonal, winter, yeti

Critical Hits Gift Guide 2007: The Games

December 13, 2007 by Dave

Hello, and welcome again to the Critical Hits gift guide! Each year, we’ve taken a different tack for making recommendations. This year, due to some regrettable server downtimes, we’re compressing our recommendations. So first comes the most important category, games! Herein contain the best games that came out since the last holiday that make great […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: design, games, gift guide, holiday, upgrade

D&D and the Bardic Afterlife

December 12, 2007 by Bartoneus

I haven’t paid that much attention to 4th Edition so far, either I’ve been too busy or I’m really looking forward to having some surprises when it finally comes out.  Back when Dave posted his first impressions of it I became really excited because it seemed, against all odds, that the designers at WotC were […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 4th Edition, bards, classes, D&D, druids, Dungeons and Dragons

Independent Games Festival 2008 Award Nominees – Part 1

December 8, 2007 by The Bored Gamer

The Independent Game Festival occurs every year at the Game Developers Conference. It’s purpose is to showcase and reward the efforts of independent game developers who have produced outstanding innovative games. For those who are interested in watching last year’s Independent Game Festival(which, from this point on in the article, will be abbreviated IGF), the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Video Games Tagged With: games indie

For Glory!

December 7, 2007 by Bartoneus

I’ve been clamoring to post this all week, apparently one of the greatest television shows of all time that has been big in re-runs lately is making it’s glorious return on January 8th, 2008.  It’s American Gladiators!  You can visit the nbc site for the re-launch of the show, and I highly recommend watching the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Television

Inq. of the Week: Musical Nerds

December 3, 2007 by Bartoneus

We’re hopefully back to some semblance of our normal schedule here at Critical Hits, between our hosting going wonky, me having indefinite bouts of sucking, and Dave going through the layers of hell known as Graduate School / End of the Semester we have really fallen behind here. Oh, and the fact that Rock Band […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games Tagged With: games, Inquisition of the Week, Music, rockband

Rock Band First Impressions: The Good, the Bad, and the Clash

November 30, 2007 by Dave

After sending DrScotto questing all around Maryland in search of Rock Band last Sunday, he arrived with the large box in tow and laid it at our feet to dig through many boxes, baggies, and instructions. Him, The O, my little brother, and myself rocked out for a few hours that night, each taking a […]

Filed Under: Featured, Music, Reviews, Video Games

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