I now have learned, after a long ordeal, that the holiday shopping season now begins the weekend before Thanksgiving. I had hoped to use a Best Buy coupon that was valid only last weekend to purchase my Wii, but that failed for a few reasons. And Toys R Us was the busiest I’ve ever seen […]
Inq. of the Week: Girl Gamers
Getting right to the question this week: Should Girl Gamers really be treated so differently? Via Game|Life I saw this Gamestop display that seemed to really get their tights in a knot, and I began to wonder, how bad of an idea is this really? Certainly placing it right at the door to the store […]
Inq. of the Week: Horror of Horrors!
These days, more and more emphasis is being placed on the story within games. Back in the olden days, Link just wandered around the land and just happen to be given a sword by an old man. Nowadays he’s drawn into adventure, and it looks like its going to take 70 hours to finish this […]
Inq. of the Week: Style vs. Realism
This week at Critical Hits we’re looking at a classic question of taste, choice, and large anime eyes. With our mouths posivitely awash for the impending releases of the Wii and the new Zelda game Twilight Princess, we look back at the latest installment in the franchise. Tons of fans aired their grievances prior to release […]
Inq. of the Week: Too Much Game?
One of the hot posts that’s been flying over the video-gameo-blogo-sphere over the past week is over an article written by a former guild leader in World of Warcraft. In it, he describes how the pressures of running a guild began to take over his life. He gained weight (like in the South Park episode), […]
Inq. of the Week: Nostalgia Reigns
Spawning from last week’s question about movies and their use of intellectual properties comes a controversial thread on how we should view and criticise older games. Their graphics suck, the gameplay is elementary, story and characterization are practically non-existant, these games suck! At least that’s what some people think, other feel that we should look […]
Inq. of the Week: In the Movies?
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. […]
Inquisition of the Week: One Year Later
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 […]
Inquisition of the Week: Heroes
I stumbled upon a very interesting, quick article written by none other then Frank Miller, you can find it here. It stands on the border of being perfectly written as far as length and content, I feel it is a bit too brief but there is really nothing more I can think I would want […]
Inquisition of the Week: Which next-gen system will you buy?
We have nearly all the facts now: Nintendo Wii: $250. Comes with 1 full controller apparatus and one game. Backwards compatible with Gamecube, plus downloadable game library including SNES, NES, Genesis, and TG-16. Free internet service and downloadable content. No DVD or other media support. No HD support. Added functionality with a Nintendo DS. Xbox […]
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