The Boston Bombings Are Not a Meme
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has six stars on GTA but no cheat codes!! #BostonBombings
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Gods in the Machine
This is a letter from God to man.
Hey there, how’s it going?
Long time no see.
Plowshares into Skyhooks: The Evolution (Intelligent Design?) of Bible Games
Frequent readers will note my intimate familiarity with the Evangelical subculture. We had our own hit novels, our own major motion pictures, and, of course, our own games.
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
BioShock Infinite and the little Baptist church I went to on Sunday have relatively little in common, save that they both came along exactly when I needed them.
Be Careful
Be careful, little ears, what you hear
Be careful, little ears, what you hear
For the Father up above is looking down in love
So be careful little ears, what you hear
Stereotyping in Assassin’s Creed III
During a recent playthrough of Assassin’s Creed III, I realized how full it is of cultural stereotyping, and began to wonder what it might be saying about my nationality.
The Call of Leviathan: Mass Effect and Lovecraft
While it’s impossible to deny Lovecraft’s influence upon Mass Effect, there is a fundamental dissonance between this influence and the game’s overall structure, which goes all the way down to its roots and gnaws at them like Nidhogg.
Gods & Parasites
I wonder, did anyone sit down to consider their own understanding of God before making From Dust and Black & White?
Mario Dali: The Super Surrealist Brothers
Speaking informally the other day I found myself saying that the “Mario franchise can be understood as surrealist.” Is this true?
Works of Art
A game might be more an art form than a work of art, and it is instead the individual playthroughs of a game that are the works of art.