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The Blackest Stigma

May 17, 2006 by Bartoneus

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Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Roleplaying Games, The Architect DM

Super Mario Commie

May 14, 2006 by Dave

It’s Super Mario, it’s epic, and it’s Soviet. No, it’s not a newly announced Wii game, it’s just a kickass flash animation. (via Digg)

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Video Games, Web Meme

Critical-Hits pwns Infinite Crisis

May 11, 2006 by Dave

Watch as we ramble our way through DC’s mega-crossover event, years in the making. We assume that you’ve read Infinite Crisis, so beware of spoilers if that matters to you. Our reviewers are: Bartoneus: Buys primarily Marvel. “The Civil War open was 3x more refined then the entire run of Infinite Crisis. That’s right, that […]

Filed Under: Comics, Editorial, Reviews

E3 gives me Glee in my Wii

May 10, 2006 by Dave

The best part of the new name of the system is all the puns it generates. So I am what you could call a lapsed video game player. While I own both an Xbox and a Gamecube (and once owned a PS2), I own less than 10 games for each. The games I play the […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Video Games

That Magical Time of the Year

May 9, 2006 by Bartoneus

It is around this time every year that all of the news reports from E3 and pre-E3 conferences begin to come out, filling gamers everywhere with euphoria as they wait and pray that their favorite games will actually come out before the same time next year. This year seems to be particularly hot and heavy […]

Filed Under: News, Video Games

OSU & GAMA want YOUR nerdish opinions

May 9, 2006 by Dave

Head over to www.gamesurvey.org if you have a few minutes. It’s the first non-marketing, non-D&D is evil survey to be conducted about gamers, and they could use your input. There’s also more explanation on BGG.

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Bits, Roleplaying Games

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

May 2, 2006 by Bartoneus

Back in 1997 Square released Final Fantasy VII for the original Playstation which was not only the first of the series to be rendered using 3d graphics, but it was also the first to leave the sumptuous womb of Nintendo consoles.  It quickly became many players’ favorite of all Final Fantasies, and as with almost […]

Filed Under: Anime, Movies, Reviews, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Play DuckHunt on MySpace on InterNet

April 30, 2006 by Dave

It may not be legal, but you can play a whole bunch of NES games in your browser using Java. It also gives you the code to post the games in your blog or whatnot. I could already play NES games on my cell phone but it looks like they’ve got a whole bunch of […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, Video Games

When you're a kid and you wanna go "Wii" (but you ain't got drugs yet)

April 27, 2006 by Dave

Breaking news! Announced this morning, the Revolution will not be televised! Instead, Nintendo has decided to name its next-gen console Wii. And in other breaking news, we’ve hit 150 posts!

Filed Under: News, Video Games

Here's the Plan

April 25, 2006 by Bartoneus

That’s Plan with a capital ‘P’. In the grand heirarchy of schemes, this is the Pharoah King. Here’s the Plan: You are going to go to this site where you can sign up to win a Nintendo Sweepstakes to be the first consumer to play the Nintendo Revolution at E3. Yes, that means you get […]

Filed Under: News, Video Games

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