November 13, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under TV Notebook
SyFy has a comedy series in the works
August 25, 2009 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, The Magazine
40s period piece gets held up
February 13, 2009 by Terri Schwartz
Filed under Band Profiles, Boston Local, Entertainment, Music, The Magazine, The Page One Story
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 [...]
January 6, 2009 by Terri Schwartz
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Reviews, The Issue, The Magazine
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.”
November 27, 2008 by Roger Gude
Filed under PlayStation 3, Reviews, Science and Technology, Wii, Xbox 360
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.
October 10, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Computer Games, Gaming News, Reviews, Science and Technology, The Magazine
The first American review.
October 10, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Gaming News, Science and Technology, Sidebars, The Magazine
Here’s the research they did for A Stroke of Fate.
October 10, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Gaming News, Science and Technology, Screens and vids, The Magazine
The latest art releases from Akella.
September 16, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Gaming News, Science and Technology, The Magazine
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 [...]
September 12, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Gaming News, Previews, Science and Technology
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.
August 22, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Gaming News, Leipzig 2008, Science and Technology
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 [...]
November 29, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Computer Games, Reviews, Science and Technology
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. [...]
November 1, 2007 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under DVD, Entertainment, Television, Video
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 [...]


