“You won’t find many religious people here,” said an up-and-coming game designer when I informed him that I was interviewing video-game makers about their religious and spiritual beliefs. He was right. While at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to talk to a dozen…  [more]

After watching me play 10 minutes of BioShock Infinite, my mother asked, “What makes this game different from all the other games where you shoot people?” I wanted to tell her the game illustrates how religion can be used as a tool to corrupt and subjugate others. I wanted to…  [more]

One of the most interesting aspects of the SimCity games is how they monitor the impact that the city you've developed has on the environment. This has only become more involved with the latest reboot. Before I converted to Christianity I had strong convictions about my responsibility to protect the…  [more]

I was a sophomore in high school when I first played a video game called Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Force Rises II. The game was significant because 1) it let me be a Jedi, which was as close to wish fulfillment for me as a game could get, and…  [more]

So there’s this holiday that you don’t know about. It’s going on right now, in fact. “Where are all the decorations?” you may ask. “Why haven’t I seen the seasonal display in Wal-Mart?” It turns out that it’s pretty difficult to invent a new holiday. The Canadian province of Ontario…  [more]