Contributor: Bob Hoose

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.

Dead Rising 2

The dead are back in the video game blender as a new hero works to mulch zombies … and save his daughter’s life.

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There’s a Worm in my Tweet!

Twitter was infected this week by a virus that flooded user’s accounts with odd messages and prompted un-clicked pop-ups—some of which contained malicious code that could take over your computer if it didn’t have the right safeguards. Even the White Ho …

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Civilization V

Polish those brass buttons and straighten your epaulets because kingmaker Sid Meier wants to put you on the throne. Again.

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A Year Without Rain

With the release of A Year Without Rain, another young Disney star continues the perilous journey from teen phenom to young adulthood. Should we be holding our breath?

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Kickin’ It Old Skool

After a breakdancing accident and a 20-year coma, Jamie Kennedy wakes up to find his world has changed. But he gets the old crew back together for one last competition anyway. We wish he hadn’t.

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Devil

Five strangers are stranded in a malfunctioning elevator. One of them is the devil. This car’s not going up anytime soon.

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Search Engine Censorship

Let’s face it, you can find just about anything on the Internet. And that’s not always such a good thing. In fact, National Public Radio recently reported on how some have gotten so fed up with the flood of Internet flotsam that they’re turning their b …

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Halo: Reach

This franchise’s halo slipped years ago, and this game doesn’t right any old wrongs. Instead it just jumps back into the fray … before the fray even began.

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“Black and Yellow”

This Steelers-loving, Terrible Towel-waving rapper cheers for his city’s colors … and his own sexual and big-money prowess.

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Resident Evil: Afterlife

Zombie-pounder Alice is back in a fourth movie chapter, finally ready to destroy the evil Umbrella Corp. and save mankind. Wait. Wasn’t that what she did in the first three flicks?

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3-D Traffic Stopper

If you’re reading this blog in Canada, you may have already been part of a new road-going experiment. But for the rest of you, let me set up a scenario: You’re tooling along in your aging family sedan, a bit late and pushing the speed limits, when out …

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Sports Champions

Sports Champions showcases Sony’s new motion-sensing controller, the PlayStation Move. And it’s gunning for the casual gaming audience that Nintendo has had all to itself for the last four years.

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The Heartbreak Kid

Ben Stiller follows up ‘Night at the Museum’ with a hard-R raunch-fest that trades yuks for yucks.

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It’s a Girl Thing

It seems everywhere you look nowadays there’s a new story about girls going wild. And I’m not talking about spring-break videos. I’m referring to young girls unleashing rage-filled rants or Fight Club-style beat-downs. Is there something in the water, …

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Guilty Party

Can this Disney title deliver board game fun in a video game package? Hmmm, the mystery deepens.

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