At long last, Shotgun Reviews and the Shots in the Dark crew bring you another fine episode chock full of pop culture goodness. After a bit of Gatling Geek, covering news bytes from the worlds of technology and entertainment, the crew digs into a review of Iron Man and Grand Theft Auto IV. Imoticon sends in a life model decoy of himself and the witty and wonderful Victoris makes his debut.

Don’t forget to head over to our forums and let us know what you thought of this episode.

 

 Shots in the Dark - Podcast Episode 18 [58:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re back this week with a happy blend of comic book and video game reviews. Janelle provides her in depth review of The Sims 2: FreeTime expansion pack and a preview of The Sims 3. Then the team dives into a look at Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield’s curious experiment: FreakAngels. We’ve also included a couple of Easter Eggs for you. Take a listen and see if you can find them!

 

 Shots in the Dark 15 - Lost, The Wii Zapper and HD-DVD's Demise! [35:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At long last, Episode 15 is finally finished! We managed to bring together nearly the entire team for this episode, which is chock full of all manner pop culture goodness. We start it off, as always, with a plethora of news bytes, covering everything from the death of HD-DVD, the beginning of Xbox 360’s slow demise, shirts that charge your iPod and the man who farted himself a prison sentence. Seriously! Imoticon and Vince give their expert review of the Wii Zapper, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Link’s Crossbow training. If you’re thinking about picking up this unique accessory, make sure you listen to this first! The entire second half of this show is completely devoted to Lost, one of, if not the finest, shows on television. We will be revealing various theories that we propose to explain the show’s mysteries and perhaps will reveal something so huge…you have to listen to believe it. So what are you waiting for? Download this show now, while supplies last!

 

 Shots in the Dark - Podcast Episode 11: A Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Review, Our Holiday Wish lists and More! [1:35:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Shots in the Dark rolls out yet another fine show, just in time for the holidays. Tune in for a video game review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, our Christmas Wish Lists and entertainment news from the worlds of comics, video games, TV, movies and more. This episode will go great with a nice mug o’ grog and a snuggle under your nearest holiday conifer. Take a listen and have yourself a very merry Christmahanukah!

 

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Jumpin’ jiminy, we’re back with a new show! In this episode, Vince, The Viceroy, Imoticon and JB wax philosophical all manner of video game and pop culture goodness. Tune in for lip-smackin’ reviews of Rock Band and Call of Duty 4, as well as a delicious discussion of Hitman: The Movie. There’s also discussion of the recent changes to Zcult FM, violin-playing robots and Gerstmanngate. Its everything you ever wanted in a podcast, but were afraid to ask.Do yourself a favor and click on any one of the wonderfully eye-catching buttons below to play, download or bookmark the latest Shots in the Dark experience.

Here we go, a quick, down and dirty recap of all the panels at Friday’s Wizard World Chicago. That’s right, we compressed hours of droning on into less than ten minutes! We rock! Enjoy! And don’t forget to head to Newsarama for complete coverage of every panel brought to you (mostly) by members of the Best Shots and Shots in the Dark teams!

 

 Wizard World Chicago Friday [8:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

That’s right, the moment you’ve ALL been waiting for…..

The show is up! So click the link below, download, listen, enjoy, maybe go to your happy place, negotiate a deal with the big pink elephant to allow you to rule a third world country, and don’t forget to listen alllllll the way to the end for a HUGE announcement about the first ever guest of Shots in the Dark!

The First Show!

And stay tuned- tomorrow we’ll have a couple new threads in the Forum and a special contest for our first episode!

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You back? Good. This is going to be amazing. As you may or may not know, MTV acquired Harmonix, the developer that has brought us the very addictive Guitar Hero series. Now, this new conglomerate, along with EA, are bringing out a new game this holiday season called “Rock Band.” In it, there will be a guitar track, bass track, drum track, AND vocals!

That’s right- you and 3 of your friends can all stand around with various bizarre controllers in front of your PS3 or Xbox360 and make utter, utter fools of yourselves. This is brilliant. I can’t wait! No screen shots or anything yet; we just got the press release today about it. I for one am very excited. If you want to hear more about the game and the whole cast’s thoughts, be sure to check out our inaugural  podcast as Shots in the Dark THIS SATURDAY at 6pm, only at www.shotgunreviews.com/shots. So, what do YOU think?

Well, here we are. Shots in the Dark- you don’t see us, but you always hear us. I’m Lucas, aka The Geek, and I’m here to welcome you to a new era.

What was the old era, you ask? Well, we’re not gonna talk about that much. Let’s just say there WAS an old era, and all 6 core members of this fantabulous new blog/podcast team have worked together on a different podcast previously. In addition to that, Janelle and I have been writing for Best Shots and Shotgun Reviews for a while now.

What’re we bringing to this new era? I’m so glad you asked! First and foremost, we are a Podcast team. There’re tons and tons of podcasts out there nowadays, but not a lot that cover the broad range of “Geek Culture” that we do here. Between our original content in the form of bits, segments, and more to come, and our amazing interviews with people like nerdcore rapper MC Lars and DC Senior Editor Mike Marts (and that was just in a 3 week span!), we are going to bring nothing but the best to your tempanic membranes. For those who are more visually stimulated, that’s why we have our full site, and of course, this here BLOG

As for Reviews, we’ll be reviewing just about everything under the sun. We have cool reviews coming up on some newish Nintendo DS games, and some hot gear from Logitech. If you’re wondering if you should be throwin down those hard earned ducketts on something, we’ll let you know here.

So, if you’ve heard us talk before, you’re in for the best of the old and a whole crapload of exciting new.

If you’re a new listener/reader, welcome! We officially launch on April 7th, and we’ll be jumping into this thing head first. Stay tuned for the announcement on our exact topic- we want to keep you in suspense a little longer.

Until then, visit our site, talk to us on our forum, and most importantly, geek out!

-Lucas