Step aside Lan, move over Harry Potter, and watch out Predator, here comes some real-life proof of the theory that things can be made invisible! The technology hasn’t actually come up to this point yet, but about 5 months ago the team of scientists theorized that they could use a specific cloak to bend microwaves around […]
…And we're back! (But Nextwave isn't)
We were attacked by server ninjas but drove them off with server pirates. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, we’re back, and while we were down, I started to look at new graphical options for the site. In the process I discovered that you can press Ctrl + to increase the font size […]
Wii Sparks More Hype Than Anticipated
On Friday, October 13th, EBGames/Gamestop began accepting pre-orders for the Nintendo Wii. In a matter of minutes, they were no longer accepting pre-orders. The company issued a statement regarding the pre-order status of the Nintendo Wii, which can be read here. Now, I don’t know about you, but I was not expecting the Wii to […]
When Things Get Nerfed, Angels Cry
Tons of blogs and sites rushed to cover the half-surprising / half-publicity seeking involvement of World of Warcraft in Southpark, and all quickly hurried to confirm that the Sword of a Thousand Truths was in fact a sword model found in the game but just happens to be a drop few will have for a […]
Anniversary LAN Party Bonanza!
We started Critical Hits over a year ago now for many reasons. One of those reasons was to create a kind of community here where all of our friends, and even people we don’t know, could come to talk about the things that interest us most. In an effort to further support these ideas, we held […]
Online gambling measure attached to Port Security Bill in Senate
In case you have not yet heard yet, my dear friends (and I mean that in all sincerity, without sarcasm) in the Republican party have successfully attached an anti-online gambling act to a recent measure address port security. This was a saavy political move done by majority leader Bill Frist as a means of ensuring […]
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 […]
You Tubes of the Week: Of Nerds and Hardware Stores Edition
A double dose of Weird Al this week: His new album, Straight Outta Lynwood, is released today. Go buy it!
OSU/GAMA/Wargamer Study Results
Remember that survey I asked you all to take? They have the first “sortie” of data back. They haven’t gone indepth with the analysis yet (and they admitted it was flawed in a few ways) but what we do have back are some not so surprising results- perhaps surprising in how overwhelming they are. 93% […]
The Future is Animated
On the heels of the announcement that Futurama is coming back, there’s some more science fiction animation news. Andre 3000, whom you may know as half of Outkast, is getting his own show on cartoon network called “Class of 3000” that focuses on a class of school kids in the 2990’s, presumbly with Andrew voicing […]
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