Games Archives

Yes, it is possible for horror video games to have redeeming qualities.

Video games offer new and meaningful systems in which to craft and critique experiences.

The new game We Are Chicago gives a first-person glimpse into a certain kind of urban experience in an effort to build empathy.

Playing the game Picwits helps call me back to God, the one who knows us completely, who makes us whole.

No Man’s Sky presents ideas that are ambitious enough to leave lasting impressions on the future of game making.

ABZÛ’s unfamiliarity emphasizes a deeper wonder behind beauty that we seldom acknowledge in our lives, much less in our games.

People will always seek the power to advance and improve the world; but how far is too far?

In a season of sorrow, Pokémon Go is a bit of common grace sprinkled on the horror blazing around us.

Here’s what our writers are consuming this summer when they’re not writing.

‘Fallout 4’ can serve as a commentary about the ability of technology to enhance or destroy human flourishing.

The loneliness derived from my own anger and bitterness only lasts for as long as I want it to.

Playing video games develops a sense of skill and community, just like any other sport. It’s time for parents and other adults to recognize this.

The world, Hyper Light Drifter reminds us, is fallen, and we have been corrupted through our own folly. But that same world also can and will be redeemed.

For me, Donald Trump will always be Zachary Hale Comstock, Prophet and Founder of Columbia and the villain of Ken Levine’s ‘Bioshock Infinite.’

Like the freedom of the airship in a Japanese role-playing game, our freedom in Christ is not simply a negative liberty, a release from worldly constraints

In ‘Dark Souls’ as in life, if we linger by the fireside, our embers become ash.