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Videogames

The other kind of Halo

February 21, 2010

Returning from an Xbox 360-enforced hiatus (having gotten one just after Christmas), it’s entirely appropriate I finally post the following story (and no, it’s not about alien religions in Mass Effect). Aaron Linne from Christian company LifeWay has developed a multimedia Bible app for the Xbox 360: Bible Navigator X. The move from printed to [...]

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In Purgatoriorio

December 9, 2009

Apologies to Msrs Diamond, Yauch and Horovitz. David P often links on Facebook to places he’s discovered on Atlas Obscura, a site dedicated to weird and wonderful travel destinations around the world. One of these was the Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, in Rome, which displays a number of bibles, prayerbooks and other [...]

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Because I’m THAT kind of pedant

December 8, 2009

That’s right. The WORST kind. David P posted this a few weeks ago on Facebook, and I’m only just now getting around to posting it. Retrosexual David Malki has composed a list of fictional collective nouns for supernatural entities, and some of them are religious. I’ll let you work out which ones. I think you’ll [...]

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Are Buddhas lesser than gods?

October 12, 2009

I’ve decided to keep all my posts on religion and videogames for my gaming blog, but I’ll link to them and make any further comment I think is more appropriately placed here. I may be rather late to the party, but I’ve only just discovered “Buddha Mode” mods for gaming. Read all about it in [...]

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Wii game taps Tibetan Buddhist mythology

September 17, 2009

And I can understand why. I’d totally tap that. Cursed Mountain, due out in Australia some time this quarter but released in Europe on the 21st of August, takes place on the fictional Himalayan mountain “Chomolonzo”. Deep Silver Vienna (formally Rock Star Vienna) have set their horror story of Scottish mountaineer Eric Simmons’ search for [...]

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Would the real Dante Alighieri please stand up?

September 9, 2009

It’s the 9th of the month, so that means Visceral have released info about the next circle of Hell: this time it’s the 4th circle, “Greed” (I would have stuck with “Avarice”, but then I would have done a lot of things differently to them). This time the team reveals that Dante, now a veteran [...]

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Where do videogame characters go when they die?

September 8, 2009

Charles Martinet, the voice actor who’s provided the voice for Mario of Super Mario Bros fame, chatted with Jason Hill of The Age‘s ‘Screen Play’ blog about his life as a CG plumber (from Brooklyn!).  This bit almost made me cry (only slight exaggeration), but also shocked me with its profundity: I imagine you do [...]

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Meanwhile, in Hell…

July 29, 2009

Those kids at Visceral Games just don’t know when to quit, do they? During their showing at E3, publisher EA hired a guerilla marketing company to stage a fake protest outside the convention centre, apparently as Christians upset over the choice of Hell as a game setting, replete with placards reading “Trade in your Playstation [...]

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DexX and damnation

July 12, 2009

James “DexX” Dominguez, a regular commenter and occasional contributor to The Age blog ‘Screen Play’ was given his own weekly column a month or so back. This week’s entry is on Heaven and Hell in videogames. I like DexX’s style: he writes intelligently and manages not to get into the flame wars and trash-talking the [...]

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Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso… what’s next? E3.

July 2, 2009

That’s sort of a return to the bad part of the cycle. At least as far as jokes are concernced. The Melbourne Age‘s Jason Hill (of ‘Screen Play‘ blog fame) got a chance to talk to developers Visceral Games about their upcoming Dante’s Inferno game at the recent E3, and some new data were revealed. [...]

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