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.
In 2005, Harmonix Music Systems partnered with video game publisher RedOctane to create a fresh, plastic guitar-wielding, colored button-bashing, rhythm/music game called Guitar Hero. But that is oh-so-old news by now. To date, 23 million copies of gam …
This E-rated creation for PlayStation 3 reminds our game critic of days that were filled with cardboard boxes and anthills. Now the fun is on a screen.
Even twig-men can step into the ring and reach for fisticuffs glory. So, does the fight stay clean, or do things get dirty?
WARNING! Spores have now mutated and are capable of escaping PCs everywhere! They are, at this very moment, invading family rooms via Wii game consoles.
This familiar platforming franchise offers a new twist in its fabric for young 3DS gamers.
The latest DMC entry is a stylish-but-brainless, hack-and-slash demonic gore-fest.
As much as this game’s title might sound like a video game tie-in to Ben Stiller’s cinematic Night at the Museum sequel, it’s not. The two share a similar setting, and that’s about it. All the action of this hidden-object video game does take place in …
The first time I ever happened upon a televised Ultimate Fighting Championship bout, two things immediately came to mind. The first was that these brutal, face-bashing, arm-torquing fights couldn’t possibly be fake. There was simply too much bleeding f …
In Rapture vernacular, pal, this underwater thriller BioShock is back for another go-round. Is it the cat’s meow or just givin’ ya the high hat?
When the very first Star Wars film hit theaters, I took my girlfriend to see it. I know that makes me sound ancient, but I was only, uh … 3 at the time. Anyway, we were late getting there and ended up reluctantly sitting in the front row. By the time …
Some major adjustments give gamers more control over this franchise’s content issues—though they’re not gone completely.
The assassin is back with more bloodletting tools and loopy biblical conspiracies. Paging Jason Statham … and Dan Brown.
It may not be long before more people will have played a video game about the battles of World War II than actually fought in them. WWII is without question the battlefield of choice for combat-crazed video games. There are well over 100 different titl …
