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Joseph Szadkowski

Joseph Szadkowski

jszadkowski@washingtontimes.com

A graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in communications, Joseph Szadkowski has written about popular culture for The Washington Times for the past 30 years. He covers video games, comic books, new media and technology.

Articles by Joseph Szadkowski

An animated Dark Knight hides in the shadows in the Blu-ray release of Batman: Year One.

Zadzooks: Batman: Year One review (Blu-ray)

Bruce Timm continues his mission to turn every great DC Comics' series into a direct-to-disc, PG-13 animated movie by tapping into the definitive origin tale of the Dark Knight.

October 16, 2011
Aggressive mutants need to be stopped in the video game Rage: Anarchy Edition.

Zadzooks: Rage: Anarchy Edition review

Gamers in love with “The Road Warrior” mentality become part of a grungy, postapocalyptic world that mixes first-person shooting, driving, vehicular combat and role-play.

October 7, 2011
A zombie attacks in the video game Dead Island.

Zadzooks: Dead Island review

A four-player, co-operative experience has mature gamers hang out on a beautiful resort island and spend their time helping vacationers, crafting weapons and slaughtering infected humans.

October 2, 2011
Bounty hunter John Slade explores some great looking locations in the iPad shooter Shadowgun.

Zadzooks: Shadowgun review (iPad)

Gears of War fans will appreciate this third-person shooter for Apple's mobile phone and tablet loaded with fluid firefights that won't disappoint.

September 28, 2011
The Kid meets a gunslinger in a cut scene from the iPad game Cowboy Guns.

Zadzooks: Cowboy Guns review (iPad)

A spaghetti western debuts on Apple's interactive tablet to give lovers of the duel-stick shooter a chance to take on the Crimson Jackals gang.

September 25, 2011
Captain Titus is always looking for a fight in the video game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for the Xbox 360.

Zadzooks: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine review

Based on Games Workshop's popular tabletop collectible miniature game, this third-person shooter packs a stress-relieving punch for players looking for a bloody, epic battle set in a science fantasy universe.

September 22, 2011
Marcus Fenix watches a Lambent Drudge explode in the video game Gears of War 3 for the Xbox 360.

Zadzooks: Gears of War 3: Limited Edition review

Marcus Fenix, one of the chiseled and grizzled veterans of the humans continuing struggles against the Locust Horde, again leads Delta Squad into battle in the final piece of the current story arc in the Gears of War trilogy.

September 17, 2011
In the PlayStation 3 video game Resistance 3, Joseph Capelli must stop the extermination of the human race?

Zadzooks: Resistance 3 review

One of PS3's most anticipated titles for the year takes players back to the 1950s to conclude a console gaming trilogy and help the human race survive against an alien menace.

September 10, 2011

Zadzooks: Rise of Nightmares review

The survival horror genre of video games just got a whole lot more interactive with help from a frightening first-person adventure built for a Kinect-ed Xbox 360 owner.

September 9, 2011
Video gamers get a taste of Rage through a Dark Horse Comics' series.

Zadzooks: Rage (comic books)

Readers are stuck in yet another post-apocalyptic world filled with “Mad Max”-style gangs, creatures and government ruffians out to control what's left of an Earth struck by a meteor back in 2037.

September 4, 2011
Artist Greg Capullo's work explodes off the page in Image Comics' Haunt: Immortal Edition, Book One.

Zadzooks: Haunt: Immortal Edition, Book One

This hard cover book takes the first 12 issues of the series and wraps a sturdy hardbound cover around the collection to beautifully preserve the often-gory action.

September 2, 2011
Jedi fights Sith in Dark Horse Comics' Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Lost Suns.

Zadzooks: Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Lost Suns

Based on the upcoming massive multiplayer online role playing video game, players, I mean readers, dive into a comic book series taking place thousands of years before the Skywalker family ever caused the Sith any trouble.

September 2, 2011
Security specialist Adam Jensen takes cover in the middle of a firefight while the player plots out his next move in the video game epic Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Zadzooks: Deus Ex: Human Revolution review

One of the premiere genre-melding gaming franchises returns after a near eight-year absence to suck players into a prequel to its cyberpunk adventures.

August 23, 2011
Brutal battles occur in combat ravaged locations in the iPad game Hills of Glory: WWII Premium HD.

Zadzooks: Hills of Glory: WWII Premium HD (iPad)

A tower defense game brings a cartoony, Quentin Tarantino level of shock and awe to the Second World War as iPad owners liberally slaughter a reasonable facsimile of German forces.

August 13, 2011
Vincent seeks help from a sheep man in the bizarre video game Catherine.

Zadzooks: Catherine review (Xbox 360)

Poor Vincent's life is a complex game of emotional and physical survival where decisions made during his waking hours play out in a potentially deadly scenarios in his dreams.

August 5, 2011