Liturgy of the Tomb Raider
I can’t think of a single other video game with the moxie to demand that players learn the stations of the cross to raid a tomb.
I can’t think of a single other video game with the moxie to demand that players learn the stations of the cross to raid a tomb.
In Detroit: Become Human the choice of messiahship is turned over to the player.
Shin Megami Tensei V reveals, with unsentimental efficiency, that righteousness stripped of love spares no thought for forgiveness and compassion.
By compromising the connection between player and hero-protagonist, Shadow of Mordor sets up the player to identify as the villain, with no prior warning.
Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.
Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2021.
The best ending possible to the Mass Effect trilogy is easiest to achieve with the help of the Quarians and the Geth. It also requires a lot of cooperation from other various peoples around the entire galaxy.
Blasphemous reminds us that we too often reduce our mysterious God to a player on both sides of a cosmic chess game.
Our team highlights their favorite books and games from 2020 that managed to break through the dark days and deliver a bit of goodness.
The core doctrines of our faith are not mere trappings to make money, as envisioned by Church Tycoon: they are our very reason for existence.
Joking aside, though, I’m sure you’re wondering—do violent videogames cause violence? The answer, according to science, is “Well, mayb…no. Prolly not.”
The Final Fantasy VII Remake does what many retellings fail to do; it reconciles the past with the future.
Ultimately, the problem with VR was that it, like so much that happened in the nineties, put technology ahead of content.
From beginning to end, Ori and the Blind Forest is ultimately a story of kindness.
The Christ and Pop Culture team highlights some of their personal favorite pop culture artifacts of the past 10 years in the Faves of the Decade series.
Pyre utilizes the narrative power of interactive fiction to remind you of a simple truth: that you are not your own.
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