http://blastmagazine.com Music, movies, tv, video games, tech, food, drink, young, hip, and sexy! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:36:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sex and affairs. Sex and affairs. I have a few aunts back home who would love this show. We are so close. I'm mixed on this episode. I like the dark character twists. I don't like the love triangles so much. Cheating and affairs and all that shit ... I just ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/2009/11/stargate-universe-life/ In today's slice of awesome news, a report, issued by GameSpot, says Nintendo classics Mario Kart, Pilot Wings, and Smash Bros. are on their way to the Virtual Console, and will be there by year's end. To clarify, we're talking about Super Mario Kart, the one from the SNES era, Pilotwings, ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/mario-kart-pilot-wings-smash-bros-coming-to-virtual-console/ I'm a man. As a man, I don't have the right to tell a woman what to do about her own womanly health. But I know one thing: Too many women die of breast cancer every year. Now we have to hear so-called health experts tell women to wait until age ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/health-and-fitness/2009/11/commentary-ignore-the-experts-on-womens-and-mens-health/ Some people like Halo.  Some people like Call of Duty.  Me?  When I'm ready to get together with a few of my closest friends and brutally gun things down, Left 4 Dead is my co-op game of choice.  There are many reasons for this: it's easy to pick up and ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/xbox-360/2009/11/left-4-dead-2-review/ [rating:4/4] There are so many things that could have gone wrong with “The Blind Side.” What could have been a horribly cheesy, hard-to-swallow “Remember the Titans 2” turned out to be a viscerally engaging film about love, family and the importance of acceptance, and possibly the best film of Sandra ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/movies/reviews-movies/2009/11/the-blind-side/ [rating:3/4] A lot of things were going on yesterday. Oprah was announcing the end of her daytime talk show. Sarah Palin was touring the country, promoting her new book and jabbing at Obama’s policies at every turn. Surely, Taylor Swift was walking around somewhere telling someone that she ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/movies/reviews-movies/2009/11/new-moon-review/ [rating:3.5/4]We are told at the beginning of “The Messenger” that Sergeant Will Montgomery is a hero. Wounded while earning medals for bravery, Montgomery is rotated back home and assigned to serve out the rest of his tour as part of the Army’s Casualty Notification Service. Will now has to break ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/movies/2009/11/the-messenger/ Joey Logano, the GameStop-sponsored NASCAR driver, will race around the track this weekend at a blistering pace with a massive Modern Warfare 2 decal slapped on his vehicle. Logano goes for his sixth win of the season tomorrow in Florida, (televised on ESPN 2 at 4:30 p.m.) and you can watch ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/joey-logano-racing-modern-warfare-2-car-this-weekend/ Capcom released a new trailer for their upcoming Dark Void project today and in it are the game's hell-raising, killing creatures; The Watchers. An appropriately ominous name if I do say so myself. But by the looks of them in this trailer, I'd say they do more "killing" than "watching." Have a ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/dark-void-the-watchers-trailer/ Microsoft's Halo studio, 343, recently released the first episode in the Halo: Legends anime series, but today the company gushed details on the second episode, exclusively available on Xbox Live tomorrow, Nov. 21. That's right, the second showing, "The Duel," will come to Xbox Live's Halo Waypoint tomorrow, and will be ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/second-halo-legends-episode-hits-nov-21/ Borderlands is not what I would describe as a complex game. You get guns, you shoot those guns, and you pick up what the people on the receiving end of those gun's bullets drop as they die.  Sometimes, if you're lucky, that's more guns! You do this, over and over ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/xbox-360/2009/11/borderlands-review/ Ah, the spoils of Thanksgiving. Food, drink, and friends. These are all things we love about Thanksgiving, but what about in the World of Warcaft, in Azeroth? Why should our WoW characters miss out on the annual feast? Beginning this year, they won't! Blizzard announced today the "Pilgrim's Bounty" event happening ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/world-of-warcraft-celebrates-thanksgiving/ For the fourth straight year, it looks like Nintendo's Wii will be the hottest item during the Holiday shopping season. A survey of over 1,000 random wishes, conducted by online gift-giving site Lottay, found that, for both dudes and ladies, the Wii topped the list of most popular holiday wishes. Can't say ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/survey-says-wii-and-wii-accessories-most-wanted-for-holiday-2009/ Electronic Arts look to knock you down a notch, and strip some of your ego away next month when they release Team-Based downloadable content for the award-winning and highly praised Need For Speed: Shift. The Team Racing Pack, Shift's first DLC release, hits Dec. 1 and 10 for Xbox 360 and ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/free-need-for-speed-shift-dlc-coming-next-month/ I don't know why I know all the words to Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe."  It came out two decades before I was born; it's not in my music library; and I'm not a big fan of pre-disco sunshine pop.  Yet low and behold, I found myself singing ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/ds/2009/11/space-invaders-extreme-2-review/ Let's be clear here: Cooking Mama is a great franchise.  Most titles for the Nintendo DS are hit-or-miss, and it's rare to have something to consistently look forward to.  That said, it's not a title I would normally pre-order or spring to buy, because I fear that the series has ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/ds/2009/11/cooking-mama-3-shop-and-chop-review/ Harmonix today announced next week's Rock Band downloadable content, set to include live tracks from Tom Petty, and singles from the Go Go's, P!nk, and the American Idol herself, Kelly Clarkson. Clarkson's "Miss Independent" marks her first tune in any music-game, and though it's not the "Since U Been Gone" I've ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/kelly-clarkson-finally-debuts-in-rock-band-next-week/ Calling it "Shack Friday," Radio Shack has some deals coming on the two days after Thanksgiving. Put down the dried out, leftover turkey down and go buy some toys. [gallery link="file"] Enjoy. http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/tech-news/electronics/2009/11/radio-shacks-black-friday-circular/ Here are today's top TV stories. First and foremost, Oprah Winfrey will talk on the air today about ending her iconic syndicated daytime talk show, "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She will tell viewers that the show will end its run after 25 years on September 9, 2011. Oprah does have her ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/tv-notebook/2009/11/tv-notebook-112009/ Believe it or not, Thanksgiving is next Thursday, which means Black Friday, the unofficial, yet totally official, beginning to the Holiday shopping season, is one week from today. What does that mean to you, frugal gamer? There's deals to be had, provided you forgo sleep and enjoy a sweaty crowd of incessant ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/this-is-gamestops-black-friday-ad/ Microsoft today announced that beginning next Tuesday LEGO Indiana Jones and Saints Row 2 will arrive on the Games on Demand download service. The catalogue of games in the Games on Demand library, when these two hit next week, will jump to nearly 50, with the likes of Oblivion, Fable II, ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/lego-indy-saints-row-2-arrive-on-games-on-demand-next-week/ Reuters reports that once massive Internet service provider AOL is planning to cut a third of its workforce or 2,500 jobs. The layoffs are part of a plan to cut down some $300 million in annual costs before its spin off from corporate owner Time Warner. The company has asked for ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/tech-news/computers/2009/11/aol-to-lay-off-third-of-workforce/ Three Florida teens accused of burning 15-year-old Michael Brewer alive pleaded not guilty to attempted murder today, CNN reports. Matthew Bent and Denver Jarvis, both 15, and Jesus Mendez, 16, along with two others, are accused of pouring rubbing alcohol over Brewer and setting him alight in an apartment complex in ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/2009/11/florida-teens-plead-not-guilty-after-being-accused-of-setting-boy-on-fire/ Last night’s episode of Glee taught Gleeks the power of the ballad. After the emotionally heavy “Wheels” of last week, “Ballad” opened with laughs when Mr. Schuester introduced the Glee Club to a new project. The kids are paired off randomly and assigned to sing a ballad to one another. Due ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/2009/11/glee-ballad/ News travels fast, but in case you haven't already heard, Johnny Depp was named "sexiest man alive" by People magazine for the second time. People descibed the 46-year-old (I know, wow) actor as "the king of cool with killer cheekbones." Depp last won the honor in 2003, and this year, he joins ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-blogs/2009/11/johnny-depp-is-still-sexy/ Capcom today announced two different ways to enjoy Chris Redfield and Resident Evil 5 in 2010; either through my magic of the Internet, or in a plain old retail box. [caption id="attachment_33878" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="That pistol is SO huge"][/caption] That's right, beginning in 2010, gamers can purchase (for a to-be named price) ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/capcom-announces-resident-evil-5-gold-edition/ BioShock 2 got bumped to 2010 likely because of its still shielded and largely unknown multiplayer component, but today, in the year 2009, 2k Games clued us in on what we'd been long expecting; the Bioshock 2 Special Edition. For $99, or $89 for PC, gamers can expect a smorgasbord of ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/bioshock-2-special-edition-detailed-imaged/ Battlefield Bad Company 2, more multiplayer-oriented than the first, doesn't hit shelves until March, but a beta  for the title came exclusively to the PlayStation Network today and Electronic Arts released this oh so glorious multiplayer video also today. Now, to join in the fraggin' mayhem, you had to reserve the ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/watch-heads-buildings-explode-in-this-battlefield-bad-company-2-trailer/ Activision is steadily making an industry out of their music Hero line, which have officially moved well beyond mere guitar rock emulation. Thanks to Band Hero and DJ Hero, fans of more than just rock can get their fake music fix. While Band Hero is catering to pop-loving casual gamers, ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/xbox-360/2009/11/dj-hero-review/ For those of you who have already played Dragon Age: Origins, you know that Ostagar is the site of a great tragedy that helps shape the narrative of the entire game. You could never go back there during your time with the disc-based version of the title, but now, with ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/game-announcement/2009/11/return-to-ostagar-dlc-announced-for-dragon-age-origins/ Those of you with an itch for nostalgia might want to pay attention, as Atlus has released a trailer for the upcoming 3D Dot Game Heroes--and this time we can actually read the language it's in! This is very clearly a tribute to Zelda by From Software, the company that brought ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/screens/2009/11/3d-dot-game-heroes-launch-trailer/ Sony recently held a presentation detailing its efforts to succeed and become profitable by the end of 2010, and inside that plan is the company's view of how games will be played on PS3's in the near future; in 3D. Sony plans on implementing the full-on 3D support via a simple ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/11/sony-bringing-3d-gaming-to-ps3-via-firmware-update-by-end-of-2010/ ROME -- As is known, Rome never stops surprising us, and the treasures that are still covered by layers and layers of earth, streets and pavements are hardly imaginable. The most recent and rather important discovery is the white marble flight of steps found during excavations undertaken in the course of ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/world-news/2009/11/hadrians-academy-unearthed/ Massachusetts is one of the hardest states in America to have a smoke. You can't smoke indoors. You can't smoke in bars. Tobacco shops are disappearing. Cigarette taxes are through the roof. And it's all working. A study shows 26 percent fewer Massachusetts low-income Medicaid participants smoke since 2006. Researchers also found ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/health-and-fitness/2009/11/smoking-rates-plumet-among-low-income-massachusetts-residents/ This week on Modern Family: guest stars, bad 80s songs, and Yoko Ono jokes. Cam and Mitchell feel like they haven’t spent enough time in the adult world lately as they’ve been too preoccupied taking care of baby Lily. To rectify this situation, they call their best friend ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/entertainment/tv/2009/11/modern-family-great-expectations/ The student body president at the University of Massachusetts Boston was arrested and charged as a repeat drug dealer last week after the Boston Police Drug Control Unit raided his Dorchester apartment. Terral Ainooson, 25, was arrested along with roommate, Ryan Oshima, 23, on November 11, when police found more than ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/crime-the-news-2/2009/11/umass-student-body-president-arrested/ NATICK -- No, this is not your favorite sex position, but keep reading anyway. "Girl on Top" is best-selling author Nicole Williams’ new book about how to reach those career goals you’ve had since you quit scanning bananas at the ‘Basket and moved out of your parents’ house. ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/culturefashion/couture/2009/11/girl-on-top/ It seems like there is no shortage of racing games as the holiday season approaches. Over the last few months, we’ve seen the release of Gran Turismo on the PSP, Forza Motorsport 3 and Need for Speed Shift on Xbox 360 and PS3 respectively. And now we’ve got a new ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/reviews/wii/2009/11/need-for-speed-nitro-review/ Fourteen schools in Boston need to shape up or ship out. Superintendent Carol R. Johnson unveiled a five-year strategic plan for the Boston Public Schools, outlining new direction and priorities for "closing access and achievement gaps and graduating all BPS students from high school>" “The days of business as usual are over,” ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/local-news/2009/11/boston-schools-chief-targets-14-under-performers/ One of America's favorite breakfast treats may be hard to find for a while. According to The Associated Press, Kellogg Co. reports a nationwide shortage of Eggo frozen waffles until at least next summer after interruptions at two of the four plants that produce them. The report says that Kellogg's Atlanta ... http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/culturefashion/food-and-drink/2009/11/leggo-my-eggo/