News Brief: Shank 2 hits PSN and PC February 7, Xbox Live a day later

Jan. 19   Leave a Comment  

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Get your chainsaws ready.

Best Buy seems pretty sure that Diablo III comes out next month

Jan. 8   Leave a Comment  

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Legit sign or photoshop?

Blast’s Best Games of 2011 list

Dec. 30, 2011   Leave a Comment  

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What won game of the year?

Blast liveblogs Microsoft’s E3 2011 press conference

June 6, 2011   Leave a Comment  

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Blast Magazine E3 show schedule

June 4, 2011   Leave a Comment  

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Blast is your source for all of the up to the minute E3 news.

Letter from the Editor: Four years in the books

Dec. 4, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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My god. Have we really been at this for four years already? It seems like just yesterday I was watching the countdown clock on our original domain name, theblastarea.com as we prepared to edit and put out our first magazine issue on 1/1/2007. A lot has changed in that time. Not only has the magazine [...]

Homemade Christmas: Heavenly Scotch-a-roos

Dec. 3, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Save $$$ this Xmas without alienating your “sort of” friends.

Ask Alexis: fun (cheap) entertainment

Nov. 24, 2010   1 Comment  

See how much better TV has gotten since the 50s?

TV-watching parties just got cool

Top 10 Thanksgiving TV episodes: Part two

Nov. 23, 2010   1 Comment  

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10 Thanksgiving Episodes you can decide to watch or not to get you in the TG (Thanksgiving) spirit

Top 10 Thanksgiving TV show episodes: Part one

Nov. 22, 2010   2 Comments  

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Get in the spirit!

Ask Alexis: why menu planning makes a world of difference

Nov. 16, 2010   1 Comment  

So many opportunities to save!

Heading to the grocery store with a mission — now that’s savvy.

Exclusive interview: “Project Runway” contestant April Johnston

July 26, 2010   4 Comments  

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April Johnston spills about season 8!

What will 2010 bring for Blast?

Dec. 22, 2009   1 Comment  

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At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2007, BlastMagazine.com launched. A new, scrappy little online magazine with two goals: To be an independent voice and to combine the monthly quality of a long-form magazine with the hourly timeliness of the web and blogs. In 2007 we were born. In 2008 we gained direction. In [...]

11/09 Blast Cover Podcast

Nov. 3, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Hear our hungover editors talk about what’s in this super special double issue of Blast

Boondock Saints II: Sean, Norman, Billy and Troy

Oct. 22, 2009   8 Comments  

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Four guys walk into a bar…

Land of the Lost contest winners!

May 29, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our “Land of the Lost” giveaway contest! The winners received free passes for two to a “Land of the Lost” pre-screening in Boston. Keep an eye on Blast for more screening giveaways and contests! “Land of the Lost” hits theaters June 5. 1. Emily 2. Ribet 3. Joshua 4. [...]

Like 6 new Blast announcements

Oct. 19, 2008   1 Comment  

This was released to the staff on Saturday.

We’ve gone Google for searching

Oct. 4, 2008   4 Comments  

Even with the popular “search everything” plugin, we’ve decided to move off the WordPress search feature and implement Google’s AdSense-based Custom Search. The same search bar you see up top is now programmed for the Google Custom Search. Go to it! The best thing about Custom Search is that it allows us to not only [...]

Automattic buys IntenseDebate

Sept. 23, 2008   Leave a Comment  

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has purchased the advanced next-generation web commenting system IntenseDebate for an undisclosed sum. This is a big move for WordPress, which has been looking for a new commenting system for a while and seems to have found it finally. In a blog post on their website, IntenseDebate describes the deal [...]

Blast giveaways aplenty — free stuff here!

Jan. 17, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Plantronics Audio 350 gaming headsets FREE from Blast Magazine

Congratulations to loyal Blast Magazine reader Jeff Hunt for being the most recent winner of a Blast Magazine prize package. This month’s package included a full-size official poster from the movie “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly” with the film’s official soundtrack courtesy of Miramax. Jeff is also receiving a copy of outlandish new DVD, [...]