Matt Hawkins
Matt Hawkins is an NYC based video game journalist, designer, consultant, and cultralist. He's been published in EGM and GameSetWatch amongst others. Matt also makes comics and zines, is obsessed with cable access, gets into arguments with homeless people all the time, and once had his nipple bitten off during a one night stand. But that's neither here nor there.
Articles by Matt Hawkins
Gaming
Can you guess the video game locales?
A quiz in the form of a YouTube vid, a very nifty one might I add, recently popped up. It challenges, you the viewer, to guess the 20 games that are being references via the environments that are dished up.
Gaming
It’s not too late to learn how to use a Power Glove
Given how much of a icon of the 80s that the Power Glove has become, it’s funny how most of us have no idea how the damn thing actually works. At long last comes a video that breaks it all down.
Gaming
‘Resident Evil 6′ has storylines, plus zombies galore
Hot on the heels of a new DmC trailer is another look at the new Resident Evil. There’s a new virus, the son of the now dead bad guy, and blah, blah, who cares; you get to kill zombies en masse, and that’s all that really matters,
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The new ‘Devil May Cry’ just keeps looking better and better
It’s absolutely amazing how Capcom’s attempt at reinventing the series mainstay into some Twilight-esque heartthrob has actually worked. Then again, aside from the makeover, it’s the same demon slicing and dicing and shooting action as before, only bigger and bolder.
Gaming
‘World of Warcraft’ can save a dating session from crashing and burning
Let’s say that you’re into speed dating. In the UK. And on live television. And your 30 second date is going nowhere fast. What to do? Bring up World of Warcraft of course.
Gaming
This ‘Pac-Man’ live-action film is actually kind of clever
Since the dawn of YouTube, people have sought to create live-action send ups of classic video game franchises. Some have worked, others have not. Thus the holy grail has long been Pac-Man, which no one has been able to do successfully. Until now.
Gaming
The ‘Double Dragon’ reboot looks like crap
Like many, when I first saw that sneak peek screenshot of the upcoming Double Dragon‘s reboot, “Neon,” which embraces the era it came from, I was super psyched. And then I saw the trailer.
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Japanese guy dressed up as a ‘Fatal Fury’ character, scaring pigeons
No, it isn’t a homeless Japanese person in the park, bothering pigeons with some kind of trick involving discarded popsicle sticks he found in the trash while foraging for food. Well, it might be, but he’s also pretending to be Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury fame.
Gaming
It’s Super Mario, going postal
Imagine some homicidal maniac chopping up his poor victim into grisly pieces, and then wearing a part of his victim on his head like a total psycho, before going forth to kill some more. Okay, now imagine if it was Super Mario.
Gaming
30 seconds of point blank shotgun blasts from ‘Max Payne 3′
Either Rockstar is getting lazier with their pre-Max Payne 3 hype videos, or feels less of a need to beat around the bush. To demonstrate the shotguns found in the game, behold 30 seconds worth of footage of people getting shot point blank.
Gaming
PAX East’s ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ demo leaked, somewhat
At PAX East, Ubisoft showed off a non-playable demo of Assassin’s Creed III behind doors. People were told not to take pictures or the like whatsoever, but apparently, someone didn’t listen.