In lieu of Mr. Gary Gygax’s passing, Gamasutra has an pretty interesting introspective on how D&D has influenced, perhaps even birthed, the modern video game, especially in consideration to the RPG and Simulation genres. It’s quite insightful and well worth reading.
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On this fine holiday eve, I was scouring the internets and ran into this beauty.
A “Tesla Tree“. A shot of a christmas tree made of discharges of Tesla Coils. This DIY project may just be a time-lapsed photo with some color filters to add some holiday cheer, but the geekiness of it just […]

The Independent Game Festival occurs every year at the Game Developers Conference. It’s purpose is to showcase and reward the efforts of independent game developers who have produced outstanding innovative games. For those who are interested in watching last year’s Independent Game Festival(which, from this point on in the article, will be abbreviated IGF), the […]

Slashfilm has a post up about the rumor of Matt Damon playing Green Arrow in the DC’s new superhero movie Super Max.
What is Super Max, you ask?
According to the description on the Wizard homepage of the movie, Super Max will involve the DC Comics hero, Green Arrow. Being falsely accused of a crime and […]

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 […]

For my inaugural posting of Going Critical here at Critical Hits, I thought I would focus on some of the best free games that exist in this wonderful land we call the internet.
MMORPG
Silk Road Online
Description: A MMORPG about oriental mythology involving the Silk Road that stretched from Roma into the heart of the Chinese empire.
Key […]

A very very well done movie mashup video with Robocop taking on Neo with Yoda showing up for.. well really no good reason. The scenes were spliced together nicely most of the time, with a few scenes that were obviously forced together, but overall very very entertaining.
Source: xfm.net
(replaced with YouTube link –Ed)

Super Mario : Live
Cool video of some dude and his crew performing the first level of Super Mario Bros. for a college talent show. It’s got some pretty awesome touches, especially when someone pauses the ‘game’.
Source: Buzz Patrol

This one is for the the World of Warcraft-ians among us. Apparently in the upcoming World of Warcraft CCG, there will be a card immortalizing Leeroy Jenkins himself. Also, other cards are planned that use humorous/true stories from the WoW community.
The Leeroy Jenkins card will be illustrated by Gabe from Penny-Arcade, which should be […]