Blast Oscar Watch

March 7, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Get the major updates from Blast reporter Ned Prickett

Activision unleashes Call of Duty Zombies iPhone App

Nov. 16, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Kill Nazi-zombies on the go in the palm of your hand with the new game.

Candidate trying to reclaim Holocaust victims’ property

Oct. 12, 2009   1 Comment  

After an attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, Glenn Berwin’s family and their property was seized along with many other Jews in Munich. Berwin’s uncle owned two restaurants and a shop there. They were seized along with his World War I veteran’s pension. “It seemed hopeless” Berwin said in a statement Monday. “I thought the odds [...]

Jewish mass grave to be excavated in Germany

April 25, 2009   Leave a Comment  

On February 2 1945, just seven months before the end of World War II, more than 753 sick Jewish men and women are thought to have been killed by the Waffen SS at the Nazi camp of Lieberose in Brandenburg state. Efforts to excavate the site, which is one of the last undiscovered mass graves of Jews killed by Nazis, began on Wednesday after a long court battle over land rights.

Confronting a Holocaust past

Feb. 10, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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There is no doubt that Nazi Germany was a haunting place to live in the wake of the Holocaust. Bernhard Schlink addressed these hardships in his 1995 novel “The Reader” and through lectures in Boston last week. “The Reader” personalizes the Holocaust by illustrating the turmoil of a man who is in love with a [...]

Defiance

Jan. 6, 2009   1 Comment  

What makes the film “Defiance” so unique is that without ever seeing concentration camps and with barely any physical presence from the Germans, director Ed Zwick was able to tell the story of the Jews’ plight during World War II almost as masterfully as Stephen Spielberg did with “Schindler’s List.”

Call of Duty: World at War is fun, lacks innovation

Nov. 27, 2008   Leave a Comment  

When learning the game, Call of Duty: World at War, was being developed by Treyarch (who previously produced the laughably stale, unbelievable mediocre Call of Duty 3), I thought it had to be more of the same.

Call of Duty: World at War to include new Zombie Mode

Oct. 25, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Call of Duty: World at War, launching Novembr 11 for most major gaming platforms and PC is going to sell millions of copies — it’s inevitable, but in every preview, every write-up, it seemed to be missing something.‚  Zombies. Fear not fans of the undead, on the most recent edition of Game Trailers TV, Developer [...]

Latest Stroke of Fate screens

Oct. 10, 2008   Leave a Comment  

The latest art releases from Akella.