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.
After releasing eight Tony Hawk games, the creative team over at Activision has decided to ollie up to tweens who probably haven’t played the skateboarding series before. (An ollie is when a skateboarder pops his board up into the air by kicking down o …
Disco-dancing turns pirates into platform paraders as the heroic Lombax Ratchet jumps onto the PS3 for a sixth video game adventure.
We will choose selfishly, this grim pic asserts. We will be foolish, even when we know the outcome will be foul.
There are a lot of first-person shooter video games out there. And in a lot of them all you do is pick up a digital gun and pop ’til you drop. But there are few with the reputation of Call of Duty. The franchise was introduced in 2003, and these well-m …
After 75 years, hundreds of books, 14 games, and a handful of movies and TV shows, Nancy Drew is still a teenager and going undercover once again in the video game Nancy Drew: Danger by Design. This time she’s off to Paris, to ostensibly take a summer …
When the original Destroy All Humans! first hovered on the horizon, it was praised by some for an acerbic sense of humor and the way it satirically set 1950s-era sci-fi fare on its ear. Instead of focusing on an Earth-saving hero, the game’s creators s …
Have you ever sat up from your in-depth studies of world philosophies and long-dead languages and thought, “Where do those festive little piñatas come from, anyway?” If so, you probably need a break. And Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise could be the pe …
This robot-battling adventure game doesn’t quite add up to the sum of its parts.
Glistening eel-like tentacles sprout from my shoulder blades and hover in anticipation above a gunned-down thug. Razor-sharp teeth gnashing, the two snarling appendages glower back at me, awaiting a command. When I give it, they rip the victim’s chest …
The sweet strains of a young boy singing “Ave Maria” usher us into Hitman: Blood Money. This euphony seems out of place in a game about a cloned super-assassin until the camera pulls back and shows us that the killer himself has been killed and is lyin …
I’ll admit it: I’m one of those grumpy gamers who never really liked The Sims franchise. Tell your sim to get out of bed. Tell your sim to exercise. Tell your sim to go to work. Blah, blah, blah. I mean, com’on, I have a hard enough time telling myself …
