November 13, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom  
Filed under TV Notebook

SyFy has a comedy series in the works

40s period piece gets held up

It was a half an hour before they were set to take the stage at Boston’s Harper’s Ferry, but the band members of A Cursive Memory weren’t wasting time stressing over their upcoming performance. After all, there were zombies to be killed and no time to waste.
“Since Colin (Vocalist and guitar [...]

February 10, 2009 by Kristen Gard  
Filed under Arts, Books, The Magazine

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 [...]

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.”

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.

The first American review.

Here’s the research they did for A Stroke of Fate.

The latest art releases from Akella.

Lighthouse Interactive and its project partners, developer Discus Games and Graviteam announced Monday that their upcoming WWII tank simulation game, Steel Fury: Kharkov 1942, will hit shelves across North America in early November and set a firm date of November 7 for European stores.
Steel Fury is known in previews as a historically accurate and thickly detailed [...]

I’m playing an early version of Stroke of Fate, a WWII adventure title in the works from Akella, but allow me to introduce the distributor.

One game we didn’t see much of at E3 was Atari’s Heroes over Europe, the WWII flying combat simulation sequel to Heroes of the Pacific, which was a very strong PC and PlayStation 2 title in its own right.
Heroes over Europe brings the combat to high definition on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC in [...]

Undercover: Operation Wintersun looks pretty and had a lot of potential. But utterly boring gameplay, pointless puzzles and dialog overkill make this one a flop. [...]

From Acorn Media comes Clive Cussler’s The Sea Hunters, a 3-DVD collection of the acclaimed television documentary.
The set features eight daring shipwreck expeditions to the depths of World War II’s most deadly naval battles and attacks.
“Rather than looking for treasure, the Sea Hunters seek only to complete the historical record. Besides delving deep into each [...]