Star Wars: Living With A Complicated Video Game Legacy (Matthew 16)
If your “nerd radar” (or “nerd-ar”) hasn’t been sounding off this past week like an alarm klaxon on the bridge of the Enterprise during a red alert, then I am […]
A Game for Every Season (2 Samuel 21, Ecclesiastes 3)
I have measured games in a variety of ways over the years, but there has always been one constant in my video game “value” system. As a game case would […]
WatchDogs Legion, and the Nameless, Faceless, Yet Completely Critical Wallflowers (Acts 18, Acts 23)
I like choices in my video games. It is honestly a core part of the reason I play them. I appreciate the stakes involved when my in-game decisions actually influence […]
Game Pass, Getting Answers to Prayer, and The Benefits of Belonging (John 15)
This is very difficult for me to admit. I have raged against the machine, I have raised my fist at the heavens towards the falling rain, and I have fought […]
The Trouble With a “Franchise Tag”: Fallout, Mass Effect, Pooped Beds, and High Hopes (1 Kings 12)
We have all observed it so many times… that game in a series that inevitably lets ALL of the fans of a beloved franchise down. Mass Effect was a beloved […]
Ghost Of Tsushima: A Co-Op “Ghost” of a Different Sort (John 14)
There was a knock at my door… a knock that I was not expecting. Certainly in the circumstances the world is currently in, there is no way someone is expecting […]
Microsoft + Bethesda – A Deal With the Devil? (Numbers 22, Daniel 1-2)
We are still reeling from the HUGE news out of the Microsoft camp that they have purchased Bethesda for a cool 7.5 BILLION (yes, billion with a B) DOLLARS, and […]
WWE2K Battlegrounds: Buried Behind Pay Walls (Luke 19)
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking? Well… I can’t. Not because I don’t want to (I’m guessing it’s probably something keto heavy and low in gluten?). No… it’s […]
Achievements of Shame – The Marks We Can’t Remove (Luke 8, John 20)
We all play games for different reasons… maybe it’s the sense of competition, the opportunity to lose ourselves in a story, or maybe just to connect with others socially while […]
Next Gen Controllers – Rumble, Haptics… Does What We Feel Matter? (2 Kings 5)
There is a lot of excitement in the air as we are mere weeks away from the launches of both the Xbox Series S and X consoles as well as […]
Finding God in Video Games 