religion
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A Father’s Struggle To Make A Game After Cancer Killed His Son
16“Jesus, I can’t even watch this,” the man sitting next to me whispered, fidgeting in his seat. The screen in front of us played a home video of an infant child named Joel Green, gurgling happily as he played with a bunch of golden retriever puppies.
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New Japanese Anime Is Like Final Fantasy Turned Into A Religious Experience
The Ise Grand Shrine is one of Japan’s most important Shinto Shrines. This week, as the Emperor and Empress visit, the shrine is launching a new web animation with music from Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. The tune might sound familiar.
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Petition Claims League Of Legends Doesn’t Respect Satanists
Normally, games will filter obscene words, or cursing. League of Legends, curiously, filters out the word “Satan” — but not other religious words such as Jesus, Allah, Zeus, Venus and God. In response, a petition urging Riot to stop censoring the word appeared this weekend.
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In Defence Of Religion In BioShock Infinite
What if I told you that Bioshock Infinite was the mostly deeply Christian game I’ve played in recent memory? Because it was. And despite the patience I choose to extend toward Breen Malmberg, the man who returned the game, claiming that it would have forced him to commit “extreme blasphemy”, I cannot let his be…