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.
Every dad—and really, every Tabby stripe of parent or spouse—can sometimes use a little reminder that the time you spend at your job or career isn’t the most important part of the day.
The Telltale gamemakers take a swing at portraying Bruce Wayne’s dark side … with dark results.
The Technomancer’s sci-fi storyline seems promising at first … but quickly breaks that promise.
This pic’s plotline brims with optimism and feels as if it could have been beamed right out of the original series.
Ghostbusting in any decade is far less kid-friendly than many would have you believe.
Occasional toilet humor doesn’t ruin this good-hearted, pro-pet flick, one that reminds us humans not to make hasty decisions or sidestep responsibilities.
It can be Poké fun, but the new augmented-reality craze that’s sweeping the nation requires a dash of Poké discernment, too.
This is a gruesome psychodrama of class and racial warfare that projects an almost cartoonishly slanted political message.
There’s a certain familiarity to what you do in a LEGO franchise game. And that’s just hunky-dory.
Amid all of this prison simulation’s would-be moralizing, players still must muddle through a lot of messy, M-rated material.
The Shallows isn’t just a “We’re gonna need a bigger boat” clone. It actually goes quite a bit deeper than that.
This imaginative, interactive, story-based game invites players on a journey that meanders through grief toward an abstract ending.
Dory’s determination to return home, then, becomes a series of teachable moments about loss, parental nurturing, friendship …
It’s a toss-up which is worse in this blood-drenched first-person shooter: its content or its quality.
