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Review: "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" DVD

February 9, 2008 by Dave

Who knew one giant gorilla could cause so many problems? The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary that primarily follows the story of Steve Wiebe, a laid-off family man who sees the world record in Donkey Kong and decides that he can beat it with the arcade machine sitting in his […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: documentary, donkey kong

32.33—Repeating of Course—Percentage of Success

February 8, 2008 by Dave

A World of Warcraft Collectible Miniatures Game is coming. Details are still vague on the website, but there’ll be starter packs and booster packs as you’ve come to expect from this sort of thing by now (and to go head to head for your random prepainted minis dollars with D&D Minis 2.0). Some examples of […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Bits, News, Roleplaying Games, Video Games Tagged With: leeroy jenkins, miniatures, world of warcraft

Guitar Hero for Reals?

February 7, 2008 by Bartoneus

My wife was kind enough to show me this article about Guitar Rising at Gizmodo, which looks like a great attempt at creating essentially a game based on guitar hero that can actually teach you to play the guitar. The game uses any real guitar hooked up to your sound card, featuring “actual songs” and […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Music, News, Video Games Tagged With: guitar hero, guitar rising, rhythm games, rock band

YouTube of the Week: Major Mario Mods Edition

February 5, 2008 by Dave

Some modded Super Mario Bros: one controlled with a giant hand, one major mod meanness, and one that places Mario in other video games.

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday Tagged With: mario, mod, super mario

Smash Brothers Spoilers!

January 30, 2008 by Dave

With Smash Bros. for the Wii being delayed even longer, many of us are drooling with anticipation for the newest entry in Nintendo’s mashed-up fighter franchise. Well, Kotaku has a full set of screen shots that reveal a lot of the missing details, namely a full mostly full character select screen (posted after the jump) […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Video Games Tagged With: nintendo, smash bros., wii

YouTube of the Week: Are You Still There? Edition

January 22, 2008 by Dave

A day in the life a Gun Turret from Portal. The longer it goes on, the funnier it gets.

Filed Under: Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

YouTube of the Week: SONIC BOOM! Edition

January 15, 2008 by Dave

The worst of the USA Cartoon of Street Fighter. I remember watching this when younger, but I’m pretty sure I never thought it was good.

Filed Under: Television, Video Games, YouTube Tuesday

Inq. of the Week: Are you Ready to Rock?

January 14, 2008 by Dave

Good triumphant! That’s what last week’s poll about your favorite alignment determined, with a surprising 74 people thus far weighing in. Neutral Good was the top flavor of good, since most of you hero types believe that Good should not care about Law or Chaos. Second up was the champion of individuality and freedom, Chaotic […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Music, Video Games Tagged With: more cowbell, rock band

Assassin's Creed: Video Let-Down

January 11, 2008 by guest

You hear about them, you see commercials and advertisements about them for months, their release dates are marked on calendars across the globe, and the keywords are getting thousands of hits daily on search engines everywhere…. Maybe you’re first in line on release day, maybe you wait it out and hear good things so you […]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews, Video Games Tagged With: assassin's creed, xbox 360

Holy Crap: Darth Vader and Yoda in Soul Calibur IV

January 9, 2008 by Dave

Kotaku reports that Darth Vader will appear as a special character in Soul Calibur IV for PS3, and Yoda will appear in the Xbox 360 version. Soul Calibur is my favorite fighting game franchise, with a history of strange guest starring characters (Spawn and Link, anyone?) I was ready to give the fourth installment a […]

Filed Under: Critical Bits, News, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, Video Games Tagged With: darth vader, soul calibur, star wars, yoda

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