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.
Fire Emblem Fates is a game that’s been expanded and broken up into three different parts … with three separate price tags.
Beyond the realities of the fighting itself, then, the real punch to a gamer’s solar plexus comes in the form of the battling characters themselves.
How to Be Single is a lousy title for this movie. There’s really very little insight of any kind here for your average single to harvest or digest.
As in past entries, the goofball, underachieving panda protagonist has a lot more than dumplings dumped on his plate.
There’s more mass destruction on display here than in, say, a Batman LEGO game of yesteryear. But at least the break-into-blocks formula stays the same.
The gamemakers are asking players to think about … thinking. And that’s something you don’t regularly encounter when you pick up a game controller.
This intriguing-but-flawed M-rated thriller earnestly ponders the influence of our choices from the perspective of a time-warping teen girl.
Jokes about what adults will be able to, um, “bear” aside, this is really a pretty awful kid’s film.
That Dragon, Cancer is more of an experience than a game. An unforgettable one.
There are hanging corpses, self-harming delusions and jump scenes aplenty in this pointless pic. Mostly, though, The Forest shambles around mindlessly.
