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.
I was 19 when I stepped off a Port Authority ferry and saw the Big Apple in person for the first time. I had seen big cities before, but nothing even remotely like this. This was New York City, a metropolis with a capital M. There were so many places t …
When the game-designing guys and gals behind Velvet Assassin hit on the idea for their new title, they surely must have slapped each other on the back with collective enthusiasm. I mean, a Lara Croft-type heroine (complete with crisp English accent and …
It’s no wonder that Mario is still strutting his stuff in this E-rated amalgamation of the pipe fitter’s previous adventures.
Laser blasts & whirling blades part of this game’s future. But mostly it’s about things like disco-dancing bombs & laugh-out-loud one-liners.
The never-aging teen sleuth Nancy Drew is bringing more than just her trusty magnifying glass on this adventure. She’s tossing sunscreen and a pair of flip-flops in her bag of essentials, too, as she heads off to a tropical resort. The result is a frie …
This kids pic stands strong, trumpeting solid lessons about unity, friendship and courage in the face of wicked malice.
I don’t want to say they’re ho-hum, but superheroes are everywhere nowadays. And that means that game and movie audiences need more than a run-of-the-mill meta-human crashing through walls and jumping over tall buildings to keep them interested. They l …
After playing the Xbox 360 version of Project Gotham Racing 3 for a few minutes, my initial reaction was, “This is … boring.” I was also feeling ham-fisted and unable to do much more than run into everything. My driving was so poor I almost crashed i …
First there’s a song, then there’s a movie, then there’s a game in the franchise marriage. The Chipmunks join the Chipettes on a world tour of squeakdom.
Have you noticed how video games and movies seem to be borrowing from each other’s closets these days? You can hardly tell them apart anymore. Movie producers are dressing up their action flicks with frenetic video game pacing and even creating films d …
There’s a new Civ-like strategy game in town. But this barbarian’s tale is no pushover.
Back in the summer of ’81, I walked into the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark quite by happenstance, knowing zippity do da about archeologist Indiana Jones and his deeds of derring do. I walked out a full-blown fan. Years later, I laid down big bucks when …
The SoulCalibur saga—with its exotic characters, odd spiritualism and mystical Soul Edge blades—has always been a little bit out there. (How exactly does a sword grow an eye, anyway?) But ever since its days as a coin-fed arcade game, this franchise ha …
