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Critical Hits Gift Guide #4: Everything Else

December 15, 2006 by Dave

First, how about some shameless pimping! Did you know you can buy a wide variety of products from the Critical Hits Amazon Store? It doesn’t cost you any extra to buy what you were going to anyway, and a little bit gets kicked back to us so we can pay server costs and keep the […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

YouTube of the Week: Critical Drunk Edition

December 12, 2006 by Dave

Once again, my idea gets totally ripped off. Regardless, this video is hilarious, and makes me glad that my College Based d20 game is a lot different than this. Found via Extralife.

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, YouTube Tuesday

Critical Hits Gift Guide #3: Games

December 7, 2006 by Dave

First, let me give a big shoutout to Ogrecave and their yearly Holiday Gift Guide on games. I’ve found quite a few great games through there and the guys who put it together are very knowledgeable. They focus on a few specific areas of games and list a bunch for each. Also, Boardgamegeek has their […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Critical Hits Gift Guide #2: T-Shirts

November 30, 2006 by Dave

The noble t-shirt. Ever a staple of the gamer wardrobe. If they made jeans with gamery stuff on them, I’m sure we’d buy that too. (Though gamer underwear may also begin to, no pun intended, start to take off…) So if you’d like to clothe a fellow gamer for the holidays, or you yourself are […]

Filed Under: Comics, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

YouTube of the Week: Aquaros Eros Bevrage! Edition

November 28, 2006 by Dave

By request, the original D&DD episode of Dexter’s Lab. Before there was the Dead Ale Wives, before the D&D movie… there was this.

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, Television, YouTube Tuesday

Critical Hits Gift Guide #1: DVDs

November 23, 2006 by Dave

Welcome to the first installment of the Critical Hits Gift Guide. We’ll be doing these every week until xmas, covering a different area of gaming related products scattered throughout the internet. Today, Gaming DVDs. It was only a few short years ago that gaming movies were considered things like Labyrinth and Mazes & Monsters. Sure, […]

Filed Under: Movies, Roleplaying Games

Inq. of the Week: Horror of Horrors!

November 6, 2006 by Dave

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 […]

Filed Under: Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Going Critical on Final Fantasy XII

November 4, 2006 by The Bored Gamer

As some of you may know, Final Fantasy XII was released to North American audiences this past Tuesday. Although only having had barely five hours to actually play the game since then, this edition of Going Critical will be devoted to giving my initial reactions to these five hours with a full review of this […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Halloween Boardgames / The Triangle

October 27, 2006 by Dave

First, a shout out to Halloween games. If you’re in the Halloween gaming mood, here’s some tabletop games to check out: Mall of Horror Arkham Horror Betrayal at House on the Hill (and if you see it around, it’ll probably be out of print soon, so might not be a bad idea to snap it […]

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

Dungeon / Coffee Master (Toothpaste for Dinner)

October 22, 2006 by Dave

Toothpaste for Dinner is my favorite webcomic, accomplishing the difficult task of being consistently hilarious on an almost daily basis. He’s not afraid to do nerdy jokes either, as shown above. I’m sure I’ll be showcasing several from his archives, but I highly recommend checking it out. Also, be sure to check out his line […]

Filed Under: Roleplaying Games, Webcomic Weekend

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