Author: Trevor Ruben

    Though I contribute to many online publications on a regular basis, including The Checkout, the crux of my writing lies in video games. When not writing, I'm often streaming a variety of games on Twitch.


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  • Journey Statue
    Limited Edition Journey Statue Captures the Game Beautifully

    Coinciding with the re-release of the PS3-exclusive Journey this week on the PS4 is this magnificent and sentimental limited-edition statue. What makes it special isn’t the fact that they’re only making 1,000 of them (you should go here, right now,...

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  • Christoph Waltz Spectre
    Full-Fledged Spectre Trailer Puts Bond in the Hornet’s Nest

    The fourth Daniel Craig Bond film, Spectre, is hitting theaters Nov. 6. You could watch the preceding three films in preparation, or you could watch this new trailer about 158 times over. Either way, the Earth will have moved around...

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  • The Good Dinosaur
    Trailer: Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur is Drop Extinct Georgous

    It’s been a while since I’ve watched a trailer for an animated movie and simply been blown away by the visuals alone. The last time might’ve actually been the first Transformers film, which I count as animated because the...

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  • Fallout Pop! Figure Vault Boy
    Each Funko Fallout POP! Figure is Menacing, Adorable, Now on Sale

    Bethesda’s reveal of Fallout 4 at this year’s E3 has resulted in its own inevitable pop-culture fallout, the culmination of which naturally lies on the shoulders of toy-maker Funko and it’s indelible POP! Vinyl line-up. Seven new figures ripped...

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  • Neil Armstrong Smithsonian Reboot the Suit
    The Smithsonian Wants Your Help Preserving Neil Armstrong’s Moonwalk Suit

    The Smithsonian Institution is out to make the most of the Pluto flyby hype, launching its first Kickstarter campaign ever centered around the one man who still stands as NASA’s brightest beacon: Neil Armstrong. The Smithsonian wants...

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  • Chuck Jones Frog Loony Toons
    YouTube Highlight: Understand How Chuck Jones Made Looney Toons Great

    If you’ve watched a cartoon in the last 50 years, you’ve seen the infuence of Chuck Jones. It’s inescapable. He’s the John Lassetter of Looney Tunes. Actually, Lassetter is the Chuck Jones of Pixar. He created –...

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  • The Revenant
    Everything Just Works the First Trailer for The Revenant

    The first official trailer for The Revenant is an enormously satisfying culmination of its many, many parts. A project like this gets announced and made, and you don’t really believe it will deliver on the level that it should....

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  • Dana Scully X-Files
    First New X-Files Footage is Brief and Way Too Brief

    Fox aired the first footage of its X-Files comeback series during Wayward Pines on July 16. It was the most exciting thing about Wayward Pines that night. Here it is, via Tweet: Did you see this?! Exclusive...

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  • Jennifer Lawrence Joy
    The David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence Anthology Continues with Joy

    Due this Christmas is Joy from Director/Writer David O. Russell and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. The film joins Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle as the third in a row from Russell with those very actors and Lawrence...

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  • Rocket League
    How the Latest Steam Hit, Rocket League, Refocuses “Sports Simulation”

    When EA touts the latest features of Madden or FIFA as marketing for the impending annual release, you won’t find a single one that isn’t presented as a furthering of the game’s realism. The players defend as...

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  • Batmobile Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Trailer v Trailer

    Movie trailer roll outs are perhaps among the most reflexive kind of advertisement campaigns, especially when the internet as a whole has taken ownership of a movie before a single production shot ever hit the web. Batman v Superman:...

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  • Sherlock Classic Episode
    Our First Look at the Sherlock Throwback Episode is Weirdly Meta

    When the people behind the massively popular Sherlock TV series first announced they were doing an episode set in the original time period of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, I lamented at two things: first, one of the major...

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