Contributor: Bob Hoose

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

Game Over, Man

Video games are excellent teachers, the experts say. But a new study suggests that these digital diversions may teach some unintended lessons. A gaggle of researchers who conducted a study at Nottingham Trent University and Stockholm University came up …

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Dark Souls

The slugline on the game box reads, “Prepare to Die!” And, boy, it ain’t kiddin’.

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Rage

Mankind is up against ruthless bandits and crazed mutants in a dystopian wasteland. It’s never bunnies and puppies, is it?

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X-Men: Destiny

Superpowered battles fill the streets of San Francisco, and you’re the new mutant in town.

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Killer Elite

Elite killers are sent by manipulative killers to secretively kill other killers. Do you think it might get messy? Is this a Jason Statham film?

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Hitman

Is this movie version of the genetically enhanced assassin Agent 47 just as calculating and cold-blooded as he is in the video game? Does the blood run just as deep?

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Gamers Save the World … Maybe

Hey, video game haters out there, listen up. You probably thought that 30-year-old “kid” living in your neighbor’s basement playing non-stop video games was a slouch, right? For that matter you might even be worried that someone in your own family may …

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Gears of War 3

Marcus Fenix and his muscle-bound crew are breaking out the chain saw bayonets for one last bloody rip and tear through alien invaders.

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28 Weeks Later

Zombies are back in Britain, the U.S. military is fire-bombing everything … and two kids could be the answer to saving the world.

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Livin’ la Vida Facebook

I’ve got to admit, I really love the recent Toyota Venza commercial. It focuses on a young girl who’s worrying about her parent’s lack of social connection. You’ve probably seen it, but if not check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xEMNrSdkdY I …

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I Don’t Know How She Does It

A career, two kids, a husband and a closet full of food-smeared blouses. The woman who was the face of Sex and the City is now juggling the joys and juxtapositions of the working mom.

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Tarted-Up Toddlers

There is something about reality shows that just rubs me the wrong way. I can’t help it, I simply find most of them to be pretty obnoxious—repeatedly grinding our virtual noses in their fame-focused subject’s generally silly choices. Case in point: TLC …

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Dead Island

The worst vacation ever … in so many (zombified) ways.

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Resistance 3

The third big shootout between humans and the Chimera. Or is it between courage and gore?

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Shark Night

Sharp-toothed killers are hunting curvy co-eds above and below the waterline in this B-movie catastrophe.

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