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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  • Steve Jobs Movie Trailer
    The New Steve Jobs Movie Trailer is Good, But It’s No iSteve

    Michael Fassbender puts on a turtle neck and becomes Steve Jobs. Seth Rogen looks downtrodden and used, he’s Steve Wozniak. Jeff Daniels is there. Oh yeah, Aaron Sorkin wrote this thing. He turned Daniels into Don Quixote...

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  • Game of Thrones ThinkGeek Throne Replica
    Here’s the Best Game of Thrones ThinkGeek Swag

    We’ve hit the halfway mark in the current season of Game of Thrones, which means alliances are set to be demolished, betrayals revealed in only the most violent fashion. In preparation for the impending soul wrenching, allow yourself...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Mario Kart 8 Nintendo Rides
    Imagining Nintendo Rides at Universal Studios

    Okay, it’s not Disney. Let’s take a moment and make our peace with it, because we all know, on a strangely intimate level, that Disney would have made a heaping of Nintendo rides the right way. Oh...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Ant-Man Pop! Figurines
    Funko Gives Ant-Man His Own Pop! Figurine

    He might not have shown up in Age of Ultron like some might have hoped, but the littlest Avenger, Ant-Man, is due for the spotlight as his standalone film approaches the finality of public release. As is hopefully becoming...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Lucifer Fox Shows
    Trailers: Fox Shows a Trifecta of New Shows, Minority Report Included

    With the traditional season of scripted TV coming to a close, those of the most traditional mindset are beginning to show off their newest slate of little screen adventures. Today it’s a new slate of Fox shows,...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Sense8 Screenshot
    Finally Get a Look At The Wachowski Siblings’ Netflix Show, Sense8

    If there’s been any development out of the Netflix camp in desperate need of extreme clarification, it’s Sense8. The globe-jumping sci-fi show from the Wachowski siblings is due for premiere in June, and now Netflix has finally released a...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Hohokum PS4
    Here’s the Six Free Playstation Plus May Games

    Though Microsoft’s free offerings for May feel a bit slight, Sony is continuing strong with a filled slate of six games across all three Playstation platforms. Admittedly, none of the games are particularly new, but there’s a...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • F! 2013
    Microsoft Scales Back with Games with Gold May Offering

    April gave us quite the bundle of free goodies from the Games with Gold freebie promotion, scaling considerably from the tidbit titles to the massive, AAA stuff. Reality settles back in for Games with Gold May 2015,...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Inglorious Basterds Netflix
    Everything New to Netflix in May 2015: Tarantino, Originals and More

    Another month, another round of Netflix updates. Though many wonderful movies will leave us, many will join the daily lives of monthly subscribers. Here they are, spread about the month of May in a strategic bout for...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Star Wars: The Digital Movie Collection
    Scratch the Star Wars Itch: The Digital Collection, TV Shows and Games

    The Star Wars celebration came and went over the weekend. We saw a new trailer for The Force Awakens, peeked into the gameplay potential for Star Wars: Battlefront and generally freaked out for a solid 72 hours. Now that life...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Netflix ads Daredevil
    What 60 Million Netflix Subscribers Means for the Consumer

    It’s tough to parse and gauge the success of a streaming service. The business and the industry are both too new, too far ahead of the regulatory oversight of our governing bodies to be tracked in any...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Apple Watch
    Apple Watch vs. The Internet: The First Apple Watch Reviews

    If there was ever a product to make wearing a computer on your wrist posh, Apple’s smartwatch is most certainly it. They made tablets happen, they made smartphones happen and now they’re trying to make smartwatches happen....

    • Posted 10 years ago
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