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 the late 1990s first-person shooters such as Doom and Quake were hitting their stride and urging fans to team up with their buds in multiplayer deathmatches and war-games. Hard-core gamers roamed vast futuristic terrains while dreaming up intricate …
It was time for me to play Scarface: The World Is Yours. And like many times before, I sat down with my game controller in hand and thought, “It’s my job to play video games. Is that cool, or what?” Right about then, my wife stepped into the study, saw …
When I heard the word ninja as a kid, all kinds of cool shadow-leaping wonders filled my imagination. I’d think of a black wrap-around costume, exquisite swords, whisper-quiet—almost superhuman—tumbles and flips, and, of course, those ninja stars that …
A cautionary tale filled with gore, gush and delusion. But what exactly should we be cautious of?
This film’s crude content side may not hurt as much as a chair to the head. But it still leaves a nasty mark on this otherwise inspirational story.
The pic’s sarcastic treatment of suicide, paired with its misogynistic deadliness, makes it even more disquieting than the original.
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, The Little Mermaid and a whole host of other Disney darlings dip their toes into the anime world in this ‘Kingdom Hearts’ sequel.
The Beatles finally have their own Rock Band! So is our gaming guru crooning “yeah, yeah, yeah,” or moaning “for no one”?
Just how do little plastic LEGO rockers stack up in the Rock Band big leagues?
The Overlord games are designed for those players who long to slip into the armor and cape of an evil monarch and rule over an underworld full of groveling minions. No, it’s not that demonic ruler or the underworld. But the game designers at Codemaster …
Video games are the Rodney Dangerfield of the entertainment world. And sometimes—when they’re digitally inviting kids to shoot cops or puree Grandma’s cat—they deserve every disrespectful frown and growl they get. But there’s an often overlooked gaming …
This bloody thriller grins bleakly and satirically at the revenge films Liam Neeson has been starring in for the last decade or so.
The newest Dragon Ball Z video game has hit the shelves with a robust take that! And fans of the series are happy to see it land for the first time on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. But just in case you’ve been plugging your ears whenever the sub …
Uncharted 2 goes places no other game has gone before. But are they the right places? Because more important than how this game fared at E3 is how it will hold up in your living room.
