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YouTube Tuesday: The Dark Knight Trailer

December 17, 2007 by Bartoneus

Unless you went out and saw I Am Legend over the weekend, you may not have seen the new Dark Knight trailer which is finally available online through you tube or via the movie / viral marketing website.  If you go to the website you can see and download a higher quality version, or if […]

Filed Under: Comics, Critical Bits, Movies, News, YouTube Tuesday

Inq. of the Week: 'Tis the Season

December 17, 2007 by Bartoneus

In Dave’s scandalous question from last week about everyone’s pirating habits we were not surprised to see that a lot of people do resort to downloading things online.  Interesting enough there was a spike in the results where people download content online illegally specifically when it is not available through any other means, illustrating what […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games Tagged With: games, gaming, Inquisition of the Week, seasonal, winter, yeti

D&D and the Bardic Afterlife

December 12, 2007 by Bartoneus

I haven’t paid that much attention to 4th Edition so far, either I’ve been too busy or I’m really looking forward to having some surprises when it finally comes out.  Back when Dave posted his first impressions of it I became really excited because it seemed, against all odds, that the designers at WotC were […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Editorial, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre Tagged With: 4th Edition, bards, classes, D&D, druids, Dungeons and Dragons

For Glory!

December 7, 2007 by Bartoneus

I’ve been clamoring to post this all week, apparently one of the greatest television shows of all time that has been big in re-runs lately is making it’s glorious return on January 8th, 2008.  It’s American Gladiators!  You can visit the nbc site for the re-launch of the show, and I highly recommend watching the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Television

Inq. of the Week: Musical Nerds

December 3, 2007 by Bartoneus

We’re hopefully back to some semblance of our normal schedule here at Critical Hits, between our hosting going wonky, me having indefinite bouts of sucking, and Dave going through the layers of hell known as Graduate School / End of the Semester we have really fallen behind here. Oh, and the fact that Rock Band […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Video Games Tagged With: games, Inquisition of the Week, Music, rockband

Inq. of the Week: Games You Play

November 12, 2007 by Bartoneus

Two weeks ago Dave asked about your views on Web-vertising and it looks like a large majority just tune out Google ads all together, a whopping 48% of you! Smaller groups found them sometimes handy but mostly unobtrusive or make effective use of sophisticated ad-blocking software to make sure that they are none-the-wiser to this […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

Such Wondrous Dimensions

November 7, 2007 by Bartoneus

I really could not resist coming up with a few joke ideas for the RPG Superstar contest, the problem is that I’m also very interested in seriously entering but all I have spent time on is things like you see here.  It seems like some of the steps in this contest will be harder to […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, The Architect DM Tagged With: Allspark, D&D, Random Encounter, RPGsuperstar, Transformers, Wondrous Item

Inq. of the Week: You Review Transformers

October 22, 2007 by Bartoneus

With Dragons emerging bloodstained and well fed as the victors of our Ultimate Showdown, Dave decided to find out who you guys think is the most popular dragon.  Trogdor the Burninator came out on top, with a very well deserved second going to the gem-encrusted Smaug from The Hobbit.  There seemed to be some contention over Fin Fang […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Optimus Prime, Reviews, Transformers

A Koster Conception

October 16, 2007 by Bartoneus

For those of you who know me, and read Penny Arcade regularly, you’ve no doubt been waiting for this post since last Wednesday. (The) Raph Koster wrote a guest post for Tycho, it was about a game idea Tycho had and discussed with Raph at San Diego ComicCon which is an MMO Construction game of […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Video Games Tagged With: architecture, construction, design, MMO, penny arcade, raph koster, urban

Inq. of the Week: Consoling Gamers

October 8, 2007 by Bartoneus

Our Classic Game Trilogies Inquisition was a big hit with people being forced to make the tough choice between many of their favorite classic games. Coming in tied at first place with 24% each is the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario Bros. 3. Second place rightfully goes to Final […]

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

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  • Bartoneus

    Danny works professionally as an architectural designer and serves as managing editor here at CH, which means he shares many of the duties of being an editor but without the fame and recognition. He also writes about RPGs, videogames, movies, and TV. He is married to Sucilaria, and has a personal blog at Incorrect Blitz Input. (Email Danny or follow him on Twitter).

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