Here’s a review for the savvy reader. Are you frustrated with the off the shelf routers you can buy in the store? Does your hardware crash on you at the worst possible moment? Does your Best Buy router not have the option to stop your room mates downloads from slowing down your internet? Well, one [...]
Letter from the editor: Kyla Ebbert Kyla Ebbert Kyla Ebbert
Dec. 15, 2007 Leave a Comment
I saw the stats, and I still didn’t believe it. We wrote a 189-word brief about Kyla Ebbert — a Southwest Airlines passenger who was almost kicked off for wearing a skimpy (it wasn’t even that skimpy really…) outfit. Then the counter started ticking like dollars on a gas pump. By the end of the [...]
Discgear Selector 100FX
Dec. 14, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Discgear Selector 100FX is a handy solution for keep track of your loose CD’s and DVD’s. We’re in an age where CD-R’s are less than a dime a dozen and DVD and Blu-ray/HD-DVD -R’s are starting to show up more commonly. The Selector 100FX takes care of that by letting you throw everyone in [...]
Warhammer Online beta reaches 500,000
Dec. 13, 2007 2 Comments
Electronic Arts announced Thursday that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR) has passed 500,000 beta participants in North American and Europe. “It’s fantastic that over half a million players want to help us with the development of WAR,” said Mark Jacobs, vice president and general manager of EA Mythic. “Their feedback will help us take [...]
Download the Mitchell Report
Dec. 13, 2007 2 Comments
The long-awaited Mitchell report, telling the tale of a decade of steroids and performance enhancing substances in professional baseball, has been released. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada, Fernando Vina and Andy Pettitte are named in the report. Eric Gagne and Paul Lo Duca are linked to human growth hormone. More played are named in [...]
Breaking News: No Guitar Hero 3 guitar support for Rock Band on Playstation 3
Dec. 13, 2007 2 Comments
This just in to the Blast Magazine Newsroom from our Senior Gaming Reporter, Bradley Ouellette: If you have Rock Band, you’d probably like to get a second Guitar. Well looks like, for the Playstation 3 at least, you won’t ever be able to use the Guitar Hero 3 Guitar. Harmonix made a patch for Rock [...]
Burnout Paradise demo released
Dec. 13, 2007 Leave a Comment
Electronic Arts released today “a fully explorable slice” of the award-winning and highly anticipated racing game, Burnout Paradise. The demo is available now on the Playstation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace. It allows players to check out a portion of Paradise City before the game hits shelves in North America on January 22. Discover jumps, [...]
Blast exclusive: SunAge played
Dec. 13, 2007 Leave a Comment
Blast Magazine puts out the first American review of SunAge. It looks good, but its European developers have some serious work to do before you can buy it in a few months.
In our detailed look at this upcoming strategy game, we look deeper into this game than any of the gaming sites. We also let you know what to expect and what we’re hoping for.
Be sure to check out the latest screens, original art and downloadable wallpaper images. [...]
Contigo autosealing, spillproof mugs
Dec. 13, 2007 3 Comments
The Contigo mug is a revolutionary new product that’s spillproof, stylish and already starting to sweep into the mainstream with retail deals at stores like Target and Costco. Contigo works with a simple button that opens the sip port and completely closes, sealing the tumbler against leaks. No more spills from falling out of the [...]
Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles PS3
Dec. 11, 2007 Leave a Comment
Bethesda Softworks has put out a new expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, one of the highest rated role-playing adventure games ever released. “The enthusiastic response we’ve received to our downloadable content has been overwhelming, and we’re excited to bring Oblivion fans a full expansion,” said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. “The [...]
The Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
Dec. 11, 2007 Leave a Comment
Long before Takara developed their 2002 mixed-reviews tank sim, Epic Megagames was distributing Seek and Destroy, a PC action game that combined tank and chopper elements. I first encountered Seek and Destroy in the July, 1996 issue of Interactive Entertainment (IE), the CD portion of Computer Games Strategy Plus magazine (previously called Strategy Plus, then [...]
Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Dec. 10, 2007 1 Comment
Another fine example of why the nation of PC Adventure gaming needs a regime change. [...]
PBS’ Melissa on DVD
Dec. 10, 2007 Leave a Comment
I recently had a chance to watch PBS’ Melissa, a 1974 British murder mystery coming to DVD January 15. The three-episode mystery follows Guy Foster, an unemployed Fleet Street reporter who falls under the suspicion of police when his wife, Melissa, is found strangled in the British countryside. Fleet Street is very much like Boston’s [...]
EarthTalk: Green jobs? Light bulbs?
Dec. 10, 2007 1 Comment
Dear EarthTalk: I’m looking for a job and would like to find a position at a company that is either marketing a green product or service or that is seriously trying to improve its ecological “footprint.” Where do I look? — Beth, via e-mail With just about every company trying to green its products, services [...]
Deadliest Catch Season 3 DVD
Dec. 9, 2007 1 Comment
For some reason, I resisted Deadliest Catch for the first two seasons. I was always tuning to the Discovery Channel for Mythbusters or the odd documentary. Then one night last year, Mythbusters was over and this Bon Jovi song comes on, and I decide to watch an episode of “the fishing show.” Now I’m hooked. [...]
IOGEAR’s Bluetooth Audio Transport
Dec. 7, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Bluetooth Audio Transport is an all-in-one earbud wireless audio product that works with cell phones, stereos, iPods and any other audio source you can think of. Though there are some considerations to make — this isn’t a good idea for an iPod or another portable MP3 device. The way the Audio Transport works is [...]
Ninja party game coming in March
Dec. 6, 2007 Leave a Comment
Electronic Arts and newcomer Nunchuck Games will publish a party-style ninja game based on the multiplayer style that Nintendo Wii users have come to appreciate (Wario Ware Smooth Moves, Mario Party 8, Wii Sports). Ninja Reflex will test gamers’ martial arts stylings by measuring their reflexes and reaction times with “millisecond precision.” The game lets [...]
The Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
Dec. 6, 2007 Leave a Comment
Here’s another out of that old Aztech’s Super Games cd: At the twilight of the Eastern-Han Dynasty of ancient China, under the reign of the frail and incompetent emperor Han-Ling, the country was in disarray when the government was run by a group of corrupted eunuchs-theso-called “Ten Attendants.” Hardship and famine finally threw the country [...]
