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 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 …
Solomon once declared that there isn’t anything new under the sun. But people sure do keep trying to find something. I have a photographer friend who mixed his love of architecture with Lincoln Logs (and an artist’s eye) to create a miniature city. And …
Of all the coin-operated arcade games that started life in the ’80s—tucked in the corner at your local Laundromat or sitting between a pinball machine and an air hockey table at the mall—Street Fighter is probably the best known and most enduring. Over …
Two new GTA IV expansions have now morphed into their own standalone bundle. And more Liberty City mayhem ensues.
Link isn’t going bald. Zelda isn’t putting on a few pounds. But in video game years these two have been around the block a few times.
The human-like doggy hero at this family film’s core is easy to care about and root for.
