The Best Movie You’ll Play All Year
A couple of years before his death, Roger Ebert occasionally debated the artistic merits of video games and concluded that video games should…
Navigating Terror
I subsisted, largely, on handheld gaming during our travels last year. Thanks to the PS Vita, this wasn’t too much of a hardship.…
Looking Forward from E3
I fancy myself a bit of a gamer. Here on our world tour, I’ve allowed myself a PS Vita as my luxury item.…
Is God a Gamer?
Theology and popular culture is an ever-growing field with numerous implications for both the church and academia. Churches and professors have embraced the…
Virtual Dystopia
One of the most interesting parts of Conrad Ostwalt’s book, Secular Steeples, is his comparison of secular and sacred apocalyptic films. One of…
Serious Handheld…
With the spring semester in full swing, my adventures in video gaming take a back seat, unfortunately, to much more, ahem, sophisticated endeavors.…
Dispatches from AAR…Take 1
This year’s American Academy of Religion conference offered much in the way of religion and popular culture with session topics ranging from video…
Healthy Video Games?
With the overwhelming popularity of Nintendo’s new console, the Wii, more people are playing video games. From swinging a golf club, hopefully like…
Mind Games
Apparently our parents were wrong all along: video games do not rot your brain. In fact, some researchers are finding that one video…