Matt Gerardi, The Escapist

Matt Gerardi

The Escapist

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Recent:
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Past:
  • The Escapist
  • The AV Club

Past articles by Matt:

Inside the Secret World of Competitive Smash 64

In July of 2011, Jaime Hernández Rodríguez traveled nearly 600 miles just to play a 12-year-old video game with people he’d never met face to face. He and a friend took a bus from their hometown of Mexicali to Tijuana, where they waited to sort out his companion’s paperwork and properly cross the border into... → Read More

YG, Helena Hauff, and more albums to know about this week

YG stays dangerous, while Helena Hauff’s Qualm is her rawest collection to date, and The Nature Of Imitation is a glorious return to chaos for Dorian Concept. These, plus Mac Miller and GAIKA in this week’s notable new releases. → Read More

Thank You For Playing. And See You Next.

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

WarioWare Gold is the result of 15 years of mad genius

How on earth has it taken seven years for a WarioWare game to end up on the 3DS? If anything, a sweeping, deranged retrospective like WarioWare Gold shows this Swiss army knife of a device was tailor-made for the series. Nintendo has always used WarioWare as a testing ground for all the wacky input gimmicks it develops: Twisted! let them experiment with tilting, Touched! with touchscreens and… → Read More

Psychedelic dystopias, Wario’s wares, and lots more games to play in August

With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep up. So during the first week of every month, we’ll be here to help with a curated selection of new, notable games we think should be on everyone’s radar for the month ahead. → Read More

Lumines belongs in the pantheon of all-time great puzzle games

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

Those new Chance The Rapper tracks are exactly what this summer needed

What Are You Listening To? is a weekly run-down of what A.V. Club staffers are streaming. Listen to these songs and more on our Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new stuff. → Read More

30 years ago, Bionic Commando proved video game grappling hooks are awesome

Bionic Commando was a game that flew in the face of its own era. When it reached Nintendo’s Famicom on this day in 1988—first released in Japan as Hitler’s Resurrection: Top Secret, the heavily altered home version of a 1987 arcade oddity—jumping had already become the definitive verb of the time, the thing most every video game hero did and did well. Then along came Rad Spencer, Bionic… → Read More

The Internet, Skeletonwitch, and more albums to know about this week

In this week’s notable new releases: Hive Mind is a step forward for The Internet, while Devouring Radiant Light glimpses a more refined Skeletonwitch, and Ty Segall & White Fence mostly go folk on Joy. → Read More

Mothergunship makes building your own ridiculous guns just as fun as using them

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

Nathan Fillion explains his love for Nathan Drake, Uncharted's "not-quite hero”

Sony has been talking about developing a movie based on its Uncharted series of blockbuster action games for nearly a decade now. What started as a David O Russell-directed Mark Wahlberg vehicle that sounded nothing like the games morphed into a different adaptation with a script from Joe Carnahan and in its latest iteration has become a prequel starring Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake. → Read More

Sonic Mania Plus finally finds an interesting way to use Sonic’s friends

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

Red Faction: Guerrilla embraced players for what we are: total assholes

Playing the remastered—excuse me—“re-mars-tered” edition of Red Faction: Guerrilla hammers home just how radical that 2009 cult classic was all those years ago. At that point, big-budget games had barely explored their ongoing obsession with open worlds, a design style so uniquely predispositioned to enable players to unleash utter chaos. After all, this is a format that really broke through… → Read More

Get the party started with this celebration of P&P Records’ “underground disco”

At this point, it’s safe to say the report of disco’s death was an exaggeration. The backlash against it, culminating in 1979's infamous Disco Demolition Night by an attention-hungry rock DJ, only accomplished sending disco back underground, back to all the othered communities to which it originally belonged. From there, its legacy splintered into countless musical styles that would emerge over… → Read More

Rage 2 is on the way, but the original is worth revisiting

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

Suggestion: Sit in a cabin and listen to Judee Sill

What Are You Listening To? is a weekly rundown of what A.V. Club staffers are streaming. Listen to these songs and more on our Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new stuff. → Read More

Wacky cartoon pool, a beautiful throwback RPG, and more games to play in July

With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep up. So during the first week of every month, we’ll be here to help with a curated selection of new, notable games we think should be on everyone’s radar for the month ahead. → Read More

With Jurassic World Revealed, Amazon shows voice games for Alexa are no joke

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend? → Read More

Warner Bros. copied code to build its Westworld game, new lawsuit alleges

Earlier this week, Warner Bros. published a new mobile game based on Westworld that has players blatantly disregarding the message of the show and building the best robot-murder theme park they can. One look at the details and images from the game, and anyone who’s played Fallout Shelter can tell its borrowing quite a few ideas from that popular management game, based on Bethesda’s… → Read More

Nine Inch Nails, Kamasi Washington, and more albums to know about this week

Bad Witch is a thin, if rewarding, listen from Nine Inch Nails; while Kamasi Washington’s cinematic soul-jazz is more ambitious than ever on the awe-inspiring Heaven And Earth; and Gang Gang Dance turn in a somewhat too-impeccable sixth LP with Kazuashita. These, plus Martyn and The Orb in this week’s notable new releases. → Read More