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Shockblast Media 2011 Year In Review: The Best and Worst of 2011
By Jason Joseph at February 6, 2012 | 10:18 am | 0 Comment
So 2011 has come and gone and it was another banner year for gaming. I'm a little late getting this up and out there so here we go. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on games and had a blast along the way. Putting together a top 10 list is always hard, because I always feel like there are some games that deserved mentioning that got left behind, so like last year, I am more...
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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition Unboxing and Map Walkthrough
By Jason Joseph at November 8, 2011 | 10:07 am | 0 Comment
So this post is going to be a work in progress as the videos upload, but I have been working all night on getting walkthrough videos done for each and every map for the new Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. I picked up the Hardened Edition last night and was person 343 out of around 400 in my Gamestop line in Millbury, Massachusetts, and I have heard this was pretty more...
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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack DLC Video Walkthrough/Review
By Jason Joseph at May 3, 2011 | 8:55 am | 0 Comment
Well folks, it's that time again. Call Of Duty: Black Ops is back again with it's second round of DLC, and things are about to get escalated. Yeah, weak sauce intro is weak, but it's all I've got. The Escalation DLC is now available as of today, May 3rd, on XBox Live and... no, just XBox Live, and that's not a PSN joke, so you fangirls can stand down. This is more...
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Review
By Jason Joseph at April 14, 2011 | 9:38 am | 0 Comment
I never thought I’d see the day when I would be excited for the release of a kid’s game. I am a huge Star Wars dork, so just about anything with the Star Wars name on it is going to be high on my priority list, especially in the world of video games. While I am not and have never been a huge fan of Legos, I have found their video game franchise to be quite a bit more...
WWE All Stars First Look and Demo Impressions
By Jason Joseph at March 22, 2011 | 9:30 am | 0 Comment
THQ has released a demo today for the upcoming WWE All Stars video game, an over-the-top, arcade style fighting game featuring some of the WWE's best wrestlers of today and some of the legends of yesteryear. Being the big WWE fan that I am, the game was obviously on my radar, and with the demo out today, I just had to check it out. I've been kind of on the fence with more...
Homefront Review
By Jason Joseph at March 18, 2011 | 4:56 pm | 2 Comments
I have become quite a huge fan of the first person shooter genre, especially war based games. It doesn’t really matter the era: World War II, modern combat, future combat, the entire experience has really become my go-to genre in gaming. Needless to say, when new games get announced, they immediately go on my radar. THQ has decided to dip their toes in the FPS waters more...
Call Of Duty: Back Ops First Strike Map Pack Video Walk Through
By Jason Joseph at February 1, 2011 | 7:27 am | 1 Comments
So the day has finally come for all the folks living in the world of X-Box Live for the soon to be Twitter breaking addition to the Call Of Duty: Multiplayer experience, the First Strike Map Pack. This is the first wave of Map Packs for Black Ops and is priced at 1200 Microsoft Points. It will be available exclusively on X-Box Live for the month of February and is more...
X-Men 1992 Arcade Review (X-Box Live/Playstation Network)
By Jason Joseph at January 30, 2011 | 3:15 pm | 0 Comment
There was a time for me in life where nothing was cooler than being at the arcade. Millington, Tennessee, 1992. I’m turning 12 years old soon and my family is six months into a deployment at a Marine Corps training base just outside of Memphis. The original Dream Team is captivating the hearts of America during the Olympics and I was literally having the best summer more...
DC Universe Online Collectors Edition Unboxing
By Jason Joseph at January 11, 2011 | 9:05 pm | 1 Comments
So the day has finally come and my first big exclusive for my Playstation 3 is finally in my possession. I knew from the moment I saw the massive cinematic trailer at the 2010 E3 festival that DC Universe Online would finally be the game that made me buy a Playstation 3, and it did. With today being the day of release, I decided to leave for work especially early in hopes more...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Review and Video Walk-Through
By Jason Joseph at December 23, 2010 | 9:28 am | 2 Comments
Is it possible that the greatest first person shooter of all time just found a way to make itself even better? Yeah, I said it, and the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Yes it can. We first learned about the Vietnam expansion to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 during the EA press conference at E3, and the anticipation has been palpable ever since. DICE has done a more...
Harm’s Way Review And Video Walk Through
By Jason Joseph at December 9, 2010 | 9:23 am | 0 Comment
Who doesn't like free games? Anyone? Didn't think so. The folks at Doritos have a pretty cool promotion going on right now where you can download two games on XBox Live for free, and one of those games is called Harm's Way, a quasi-shooter/racer that is definitely worth the bandwith and wait time to acquire. Harm's Way is one of two finalists for the Unlock XBox more...
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP Pack 7 Video Walk Through And Review
By Jason Joseph at December 2, 2010 | 9:12 am | 4 Comments
VIP Map Pack 7 represents the two of the first true new maps as part of the VIP program on Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and after just 24 hours, really seems to have brought interest back into the game. Through the course of the VIP program, DICE has been releasing ports of existing maps in different formats, which has definitely been a cause for excitement when the maps more...
Fallout: New Vegas Review
By Jason Joseph at November 28, 2010 | 6:02 pm | 1 Comments
The Fallout series has been one that has been sort of elusive to me. I didn’t really know much about it until the release of Fallout 3, and even though I invested a good 15 or so hours into the game, I never really took it far enough to gain a true appreciation for all the little idiosyncrasies that have made the Fallout franchise so beloved. I’ve had a lot of more...
Marvel Superhero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet Review
By Jason Joseph at November 23, 2010 | 9:23 pm | 3 Comments
The Infinity Gauntlet storyline was one of the first major comic book arks I can remember having a profound effect on me becoming a comic book fan as a child. I can remember being in school, out at recess and playing with my friends, pretending to be Adam Warlock, who at one point or another was the holder of the most powerful collection of artifacts in the galaxy more...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Review
By Jason Joseph at November 13, 2010 | 9:26 pm | 1 Comments
2010 has been the year of the big talkers, and the Call Of Duty franchise has traveled through it with a bullseye firmly planted on their back. Through it all, the two publishers of the series, Infinity Ward and Treyarch, have taken it all in stride, as contenders and pretenders alike lined up to take their best shot at the throne of the king. From Bad Company 2 to Medal more...