Matt Cabral

“There is a huge problem in our scene,” begins John D’Esposito, founder of the New Jersey-based Skate And Surf Festival. “There’s a connection that’s almost broken.” D’Esposito (his friends and fans call him John D) is referring to the ever-widening void between bands and their fans. Upon pining for the good old days, when music […]

After taking players on historically rich romps through the Third Crusade, Renaissance-era Italy, and the American Revolution, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise is bringing fans to the Caribbean. Subtitled Black Flag, the official fourth entry in the throat-slitting, back-stabbing, entrails-spilling series isn't inviting players on a vacation cruise though; nor is it having them relive the […]

Whittling down this year’s stretching slate of great video games to a meager list of 10 proved about as simple as surviving the zombie apocalypse on a single bottle of water and half a box of shotgun shells. And while it especially hurt having to deny deserving titles such as Diablo 3 and Hitman: Absolution […]