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Virtual Worlds

Yom Kippurrr and repairing the virtual world

September 19, 2010

In honour of the Pope’s highly successful tour of England (a.k.a the Roman Invasion) and in the spirit of complete bias in reporting, I’ve decided to play advocatus diaboli to Andrew’s advocatus Dei. It’s amazing what you find by being literal with Google: who would have thought that there was a Jewish iPhone Community website: [...]

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World of Genesis… craft. Of War.

September 6, 2010

Rumours of a Bible MMO have been greatly exaggerated. The Bible Online: Chapter 1 – The Heroes looks to be less than its source material might promise. Players assume the role of Abraham and (somehow) his descendants; this last being perhaps the most interesting feature mentioned. I’m not sure how they could incorporate that into [...]

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Jesus Is My Guild Leader

April 9, 2009

(With apologies to Penny Arcade.) Seen the other day on Oceanic World of Warcraft realm Nagrand: “Efimovich: is recruiting now. We are a Christian guild dedicated to following Christ’s example and playing Warcraft as he would wish us to. We are looking for a Christian warlock and Christian shaman to join our 25 man Naxx [...]

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iSlam

December 12, 2008

That was the best pun-tacular headline I could come up with. The usual apologies to all. Finnish Muslim social site Muxlim has created a virtual world, Muxlim Pal, which is currently in open beta. Muxlim chief executive Mohamed El-Fatatry said this world is primarily for Muslims in western countries, for whom expressing their religious selves [...]

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