Gaming For God

God Help Us All – Tommy Wiseau is Going to Review Video Games

S. Russ — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:34:21 +0000

If you aren't familiar with Tommy Wiseau and enjoy hilariously bad films, stop right now and go find his amazingly poor film The Room. You won't regret it, even though it is the worst thing you will ever see. Yes, it's that bad/good. According to the Huffington Post...

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You Will Need the Internet to be Blessed by the Goddess in Dragon Quest X

S. Russ — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:35:34 +0000

Dragon Quest X, the newest sequel in the long-running RPG series, is going to be an online game. Unlike it's blockbuster older brother IX, which could be played online or single player, X will be all all online. In fact, only Read the full post here »

Fallout Version of Monopoly ALMOST Makes Me Want to Play Monopoly

Evan Derrick — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:10:47 +0000

Y'all know I don't really care for Monopoly. But I can't resist whenever board games and video games intersect, like in this custom Fallout themed Monopoly game that Deviant Art user PinkAxolotl made for her boyfriend (she's a keeper, dude!). Complete with grungy post-apocalyptic graphics and Nukem! Cola caps in place of money, this almost makes me want to play Monopoly. Almost.

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Top 10 Gamestop Facebook Quotes on Stealing Deus Ex Codes

Evan Derrick — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:21:31 +0000

Gamestop recently decided to open up every new copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, remove a coupon to...

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“Makin’ Satan Look Good” Game Company of the Week – Gamestop

Evan Derrick — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:47:01 +0000

UPDATE: We now have the Top 10 Facebook responses to Gamestop's coupon stealing. Gamestop regularly makes Satan look good. Just walking into one of their stores to be assaulted by the aggressive staff, intent on shoving magazines and pre-played games and pre-orders for Modern Warfare 18 down your throat, is enough to make me wish for a holiday outing to the bowels of...

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5 Religious Experiences With the Super Nintendo

S. Russ — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:47:01 +0000

Yesterday was a great day - the 20th anniversary of the Super Nintendo. The 16-bit behemoth dominated the '90s, only being touched by the (also awesome) Sega Genesis. The SNES still houses some of the greatest games of all time, and it's best games have art that is still unrivaled today. The Super Nintendo, like the NES before it, had a lot of games that got censored on their way to America. Mortal Kombat, you might remember, had it's signature blood replaced with sweat. It wasn't...

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Bible Stories That Demand to be Video Games

Evan Derrick — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:00:41 +0000

When trawling through the Good Book for game ideas, developers have typically chosen the absolute worst options available to them. Case in point, Bible Adventures, where the player must carry baby Moses to the end of the level. Booooooooring. I had this game as a child, undoubtedly...

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Looks Weird, Biblical, and Awesome

S. Russ — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:12:17 +0000

El Shaddai is an upcoming PS3/360 game based entirely upon the Amy Grant hit "El Shaddai." Apparently it is a really sweet rhythm game where you play along to different versions of the song on plastic video game guitars, drums, pianos, and ukuleles (the ukulele is huge right now y'all). Alright, alright, that isn't really the game. In fact, the game looks pretty dang awesome. As much as I can tell from the demo and the footage I've seen, the plot is based upon the apocryphal book of...

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The Board Game Evangelist – Settlers of Catan

Evan Derrick — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:20 +0000

Welcome to my weekly column designed to convert you, the board game heathen, into full-fledged converts in the Church of Cardboard (or Cult, which is probably more apropos). The first game on the list: Settlers of Catan.

Settlers was designed by Klaus Teuber way back in 1995 and is...

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Jack Vasel Memorial Fund for Board Gamers

Evan Derrick — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:25:31 +0000

This past January, Tom Vasel, a game-reviewing work horse in the board game world, lost his infant son, Jack, who was born two weeks premature. There was an overwhelming wave of support for him - emotional, spiritual, and financial - from the board game community, and Tom was deeply moved to start a memorial fund in his son's name. The goal of the fund is to help out other board gamers who's families are undergoing similar difficulties and tragedies. My wife is pregnant with our 3rd child so...

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