In Real Life

Buddhist Monk: Games Satiate My Desire For Aggression

Trinley Dorje (pictured) is a pretty hip guy. Like many 24-year-olds, he’s into popular music and video games. He’s also the Karmapa Lama — the only senior Buddhist leader recognised by the governments of China, India and Tibet.


August 1, 2009

Cursed Mountain Preview: Save Me, Science, Save Me

Agnostic mountain climbers today don’t know how good they have it with global positioning devices, high altitude helicopter rescue parties and 457 kHz standard avalanche beacons, something I realised while playing Deep Silver’s Cursed Mountain.


July 29, 2009

Cursed Mountain First Look: Religion Is Scary

Before my first look at Deep Silver Vienna’s Cursed Mountain, I always thought of Buddhism as an optimistic celebrity religion where you didn’t go to Hell. Now I think it’s the second-scariest religion ever.


July 22, 2009

Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience

You can learn a lot from a behind-the-scenes movie. Today, I learned that mountains are women, Bardo probably sucks and Buddhist mountain climbers could potentially be the best zombies ever.