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.
Here’s a game where you can build up a zoo just so you can wash the hippos and feed the giraffes … and you never once have to watch where you step.
If you’re looking for kid-friendly video games, a clue-solving mystery is generally a pretty safe choice. I haven’t yet seen Nancy Drew pull out an AK-47 to get to the bottom of things. And although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master detective, Sherlock H …
I’ll be completely honest. There are many video games that I’ve reviewed for Plugged In that I wouldn’t let my kids—or anyone’s kids, if I had such power—get within a country mile of. And that’s not some spoil-the-kids’-fun, judgmental know-it-all spea …
You may not have heard any sinews twanging or backbones creaking into an upright position, but a kind of evolution is being seen in America’s family rooms. You don’t need to worry that Fido will start walking on his hind legs and ask you to go fetch th …
It was only a matter of time before Jack Sparrow of the mega-hit movie franchise ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ set sail for the newly charted gaming world.
After years of mostly solo stomping Koopalings and head-bopping magic blocks, Mario invites the whole family to play … at once.
For the most part, kids and adults alike will find their hearts tickled and tugged at by this bouncy sequel.
On the heels of 14 years of karate chopping, hook-kicking success, the godfather of 3-D fighting games has released a new edition. And the years have been kind. The highly anticipated Virtua Fighter 5 makes its next-gen splash on Sony’s PlayStation 3, …
This metropolis-mulching monster masher makes superhero-movie destruction look almost dainty in comparison.
Trover Saves the Universe looks like cartoony, brain-tickling fun … or is that a brain bleed?
Many a classic film has used well-known landmarks as backdrops for its celluloid diorama. Moviemakers love this because a shot of England’s Big Ben or Egypt’s Pyramids instantly connects us with something of that country’s beauty and culture. So when t …
A heavily shadowed sub strategically swims in and out of the crack-your-hull-like-an-eggshell ocean depths, having battled its way past a gauntlet of PT boats, torpedo-bombers and destroyers. The captain throws a quick glance toward the instruments and …
