religion
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Some Don’t Like BioShock’s Forced Baptism. Enough To Ask For A Refund.
Before you can step into Columbia — before you can find out about Elizabeth and Comstock, before you know about “tears” and the Vox Populi, BioShock Infinite requires the player to do one thing: accept a baptism. There is no way around the religious sacrament which uses water as a means of ritual purification. The…
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Hindu Group Wants Religious Fighting Game Pulled From QuakeCon
QuakeCon 2012 is coming up in just a few days. It’s a huge LAN party, featuring well-known speakers and panelists, and sprawling over Dallas. The roster of games, of course, features Quake tournaments but other games make a showing as well. This year, the online battle arena game Smite is one of a handful of…
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Don’t Travel Through Hell, Play As Jesus Instead
Looking mildly like Zynga’s first foray into religious Facebook scamming, Journey of Jesus is Lightside Games’ attempt to get us all putting down our other social games and start playing one where we can learn about Jesus instead.
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Indie Game Blocked By Nintendo Over "Questionable Religious Content"
One of 2011’s more pleasant surprises was The Binding of Isaac, a game Totilo described as “a wonderfully warped Old Testament take on The Legend of Zelda“.