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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  • Yoshi Yarn Amiibo
    The Yarn Yoshi amiibo, New Super Smash Bros. Wave and More amiibo Updates

    Another Nintendo Direct online presentation came and went, and we are left with the indescribable joy of knowing that amiibo are no longer confined to plastic casings and sub-par DLC tie-ins. You might be of the mind...

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  • Never Alone
    Free Playstation Plus Games for April: Dishonored, Killzone and More

    Sony has announced this month’s lineup of free games for Playstation Plus members. Unlike in past months, these games won’t be free until April 6, when the Playstation Store updates. As is common, however, there’s a fine...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Microsoft Surface 3
    New Microsoft Surface 3 Model Goes Cheap and Easy

    Microsoft announced on Tuesday a brand new Microsoft Surface 3 model, a step down from the already-released Surface Pro 3, yet sporting a refreshing take from the company on their idea of what a cheaper model should be....

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  • Stormtrooper Square Enix Figure Star Wars
    Stormtrooper, code name ‘Come At Me Bro’, reporting for duty

    It’s easy to look past the Stormtroopers of the Star Wars universe with your nose tipped up, an expectation of buffoonery and inadequacy brimming from your nostrils. They’re essentially space lemmings, even worse so than the droids due to...

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  • Misfit Flash
    The Apple Watch Means Nothing: These Smart-ish Watches are the Future

    Apple has decided to make smart watches important to the population. You might scoff at that statement, but it’s the truth. Where Samsung and Pebble couldn’t light a fire, the iPhone maker dropped a bomb loud enough...

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  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Games with Gold July 2015
    Games with Gold: All the Free Xbox Games for April 2015

    Microsoft is doubling the number of free games as part of the Xbox Live Games with Gold promotion next month (April 2015), with two going free on Xbox One and four dispersed about for the Xbox 360. According...

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  • Godzilla 2014
    Shadows of Jurassic Park: Top Non-Dinosaurs of the Big Screen

    Lately I’ve been thinking about Jurassic Park. These thoughts aren’t spontaneous. They’ve been forced inside me by the marketing forces that be, the world so rampantly preparing me for our next dinosaur adventure that I can’t help but...

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  • Dominic Toretto Fast and Furios 7
    Furious 7: Dom’s Greatest Scenes in the Fast and the Furious Franchise

    Furious 7, the latest in the ever-intensifying The Fast and the Furious franchise, is coming to theaters on April 3. If you think you’re ready, then you don’t know Dominic Toretto, who’s devotion to his family is matched only by...

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  • The Leviathan
    Sci-Fi Short The Leviathan Has Officially Grabbed Hollywood’s Attention

    Last week, director Ruairi Robinson posted up a three-and-a-half minute short debuting his idea for a new film, dubbed The Leviathan. It’s about future, near-suicidal low-class workers trying to mine a super-important material out of a flying alien...

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  • LEGO Jurassic Park Stop Motion Youtube
    LEGO Jurassic Park Stop Motion Uses $100,000 Worth of LEGO Pieces

    It seems the world just can’t get enough of the LEGO and Jurassic Park combination these days. A video game is already on its way, which will ride you right through all four movies in the franchise....

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  • Marvel's Daredevil Netflix
    Every TV Show and Movie Coming to Netflix in April 2015

    It’s that ambiguous time of the month again when all those random websites are simultaneously informed of Netflix’s next month in releases. We already did a piece on the streaming service’s original programming coming up in the...

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  • LEGO Jurassic World Raptor Banana
    Thanks Dinosaurs, You Finally Made Me Want a New Lego Video Game

    The LEGO video games have never really struck a strong chord with me. I have no childhood nostalgia for the blocks, for one, but I’ve also never really viewed how TT Games used the Lego license as...

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