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#GamerGate, or How Do You Fix Video Games Journalism? Part 1Zachery Oliver
#GamerGate, or How Do You Fix Video Games Journalism? Part 2Zachery Oliver
#GamerGate, or How Do You Fix Video Games Journalism? Part 3Zachery Oliver
42: Discovering Faith Through Fandom – The TG InterviewBryan Hall
A (Very Long) Note on Ludonarrative Dissonance Part 1: Final Fight and Crazy Game StoriesZachery Oliver
A (Very Long) Note on Ludonarrative Dissonance Part 2: Stories As Vehicles of TruthZachery Oliver
A Hyperdimension Neptunia Diary, Part 1Zachery Oliver
A Theology of Gambling Part 1 – LotsZachery Oliver
A Theology of Gambling Part 2 – MoneyZachery Oliver
A Theology of Gambling Part 3 – Complexity and CompetitionZachery Oliver
A Theology of Gambling Part 4 – HopeZachery Oliver
Anita Sarkeesian: Do Not Feed the Tropes (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Anita Sarkeesian: Do Not Feed the Tropes (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Anita Sarkeesian: Do Not Feed the Tropes (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
Are Mobile Games Ephemeral? Part 1Zachery Oliver
Are Mobile Games Ephemeral? Part 2Zachery Oliver
Are Video Games the New Religion? Part 1 – Sociological Definitions And CountersZachery Oliver
Are Video Games the New Religion? Part 2 – Revealing, Concealing, and Religious ExperienceZachery Oliver
Assassin’s Creed III and American Exceptionalism (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Assassin’s Creed III and American Exceptionalism (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Beautiful Violence – The John Woo ConnectionZachery Oliver
Beautiful Violence – Violent Video Games and ChristianityZachery Oliver
Because I Love LearningM. Joshua Cauller
Censorship in Games (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Censorship in Games (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Censorship in Games (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
Censorship in Games (Part 4)Zachery Oliver
Censorship in Games (Part 5)Zachery Oliver
Counterpoint: Why I Love JRPGsZachery Oliver
Do Video Games “Tell” Stories? – ControlZachery Oliver
Do Video Games “Tell” Stories? – Empowerment and DoingZachery Oliver
Does Chrono Trigger Take Influence from Christianity? Historical ConnectionsZachery Oliver
Does Chrono Trigger Take Influence from Christianity? The Bible ConnectionZachery Oliver
Elder Scrolls, Game Reviewing, and Judging (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Elder Scrolls, Game Reviewing, and Judging (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Eleventh Day of Christmas – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingNathanMarchand
Extra Day of Christmas – Black MesaJosephL
Failure Fun Night — A GameCell RecapM. Joshua Cauller
Fictional Depictions of Sin Part 1 – PrescriptionZachery Oliver
Fictional Depictions of Sin Part 2 – Intent and DescriptionZachery Oliver
Fictional Depictions of Sin Part 3 – Popular Media and ConclusionsZachery Oliver
Fifth Day of Christmas – Kentucky Route Zero Act IIITimothy Collins
Final Fantasy XIII Versus Fate (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Final Fantasy XIII Versus Fate (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Final Fantasy XIII Versus Fate (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
First Day of Christmas – Bayonetta 2Zachery Oliver
Fourth Day of Christmas – The Last of Us: Left BehindM. Joshua Cauller
Frustration and Mastery: DefinitionsZachery Oliver
Frustration and Mastery: Game DesignZachery Oliver
GameCell: Confusion NightM. Joshua Cauller
GameCell: Exploring LGBTQ Issues and the BibleM. Joshua Cauller
Gaming Degeneration Part 1: Super Mario Bros. SatireZachery Oliver
Gaming Degenerations Part 2: Self-Indulgence Contra Super Mario Bros.Zachery Oliver
Gears of War, and Liking Dumb Things (1)Zachery Oliver
Gears of War, and Liking Dumb Things (2)Zachery Oliver
I Die Daily – “Cheap” and “Unfair” GamesZachery Oliver
I Die Daily – A Treatise on Video Game DifficultyZachery Oliver
Is Real Life Boring? – On Video GamesZachery Oliver
Jonathan Blow, Rob Bell, and the Mind of Christ (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Jonathan Blow, Rob Bell, and the Mind of Christ (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Living with a Spirit — Beyond: Two Souls (Part 1)Ayk Iano
Living with a Spirit — Beyond: Two Souls (Part 2)Ayk Iano
Metagame Part 1 – As a Function of DesignZachery Oliver
Metagame Part 2 – As a Community ExerciseZachery Oliver
Metagame Part 3 – As DogmasZachery Oliver
Metagame Part 4 – Independence and SubmissionZachery Oliver
Missions Week: A Call for the Christian Gaming Community to Really Matter for ChristYann Wong
Missions Week: Gamecell, or How To Become A Missionary To Your BasementM. Joshua Cauller
Missions Week: Missional Mindset as the Thematic Content of GamesE. W. Chung
Missions Week: Missions Quest (Part 1)Eric Anderson
Missions Week: Missions Quest (Part 2)Eric Anderson
Missions Week: The Next Generation’s Effect on Evangelism and DiscipleshipAndrew Crawford
Missions Week: Video Game Evangelism – Pros and PitfallsZachery Oliver
My Brother Plays Bioshock (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
My Brother Plays Bioshock (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Narrative Versus Conquest – Video Games and ConflictZachery Oliver
Narrative Versus Conquest: Learning to ConquerZachery Oliver
Ninth Day of Christmas – Wasteland 2M. Joshua Cauller
No, Reality is Awesome! – On Video GamesZachery Oliver
On Accuracy and Final Fantasy Tactics (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
On Accuracy and Final Fantasy Tactics (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Optimal Strategies of Submission: Explications and ComparisonsZachery Oliver
Optimal Strategies of Submission: Self-Reflection and ConclusionZachery Oliver
Optimal Strategy of Submission: Punishment and FairnessZachery Oliver
Participation and Observation – Squaresoft, History, and Nailing the BalanceZachery Oliver
Participation and Observation: Castlevania’s Lords of ShadowZachery Oliver
PAXtravaganza 2013! (Introduction)Zachery Oliver
Persona 4 and the Detective Story (Part 1) – IntroductionZachery Oliver
Persona 4 and the Detective Story (Part 2) – ParadoxZachery Oliver
Persona 4 and the Detective Story (Part 3) – Authority and DeceptionZachery Oliver
Persona 4 and the Detective Story (Part 4) – Characters and the ObviousZachery Oliver
Persona 4 and the Detective Story (Part 5) – The Trick of LifeZachery Oliver
Point: Why I Hate JRPGsM. Joshua Cauller
Progress (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Progress (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Progress (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
Raid Finder is Broken: The ProblemZachery Oliver
Remakes and Remasters (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Remakes and Remasters (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Repetition (Part 1) – Game LoopsZachery Oliver
Repetition (Part 2) – Paul the TentmakerZachery Oliver
Repetition (Part 3) – Power Tools and the Messianic SecretZachery Oliver
Repetition (Part 4) – MemorizationZachery Oliver
Restrictions (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Restrictions (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Review: Journey (* star) Part 1Zachery Oliver
Review: Journey (* star) Part 2Zachery Oliver
Second Day of Christmas – StriderZachery Oliver
Self-Effacement in Game Development (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Self-Effacement in Game Development (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Seventh Day of Christmas – DestinyBryan Hall
SEX WEEK – Destroying What We LoveDavid Prysock
SEX WEEK – Harem vs Waifu: Eroge, Virtual Polyamory and Monogamy on TrialPatrick Gann
SEX WEEK – Interacting with Video Game Sexuality: A Christian ViewYann Wong
SEX WEEK – Intimacy Quest: Why Are Video Games Trying To Do Sex?M. Joshua Cauller
SEX WEEK – Lust, Video Games, and AwarenessEric Anderson
SEX WEEK – Media Pornography and True SexualityZachery Oliver
SEX WEEK – Watch Out For The Goombas!Bryan Hall
Sixth Day of Christmas: Mass Effect 3JosephL
Tenth Day of Christmas – Far Cry 4Ayk Iano
The “Emo” Japanese Game: Hideaki Anno and The Culture Gap (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
The “Emo” Japanese Game: Neon Genesis Evangelion (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The “Emo” Japanese Game: Origins and Buddhism (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The “Emo” Japanese Game: Final Fantasy and Psychological Deception (Part 4)Zachery Oliver
The Answers of the Ineffable Part 1 – TED Talks and SimplificationZachery Oliver
The Answers of the Ineffable Part 2 – The Mysteries of Bob DylanZachery Oliver
The Answers of the Ineffable Part 3 – Barth and the Unknown GodZachery Oliver
The Answers of the Ineffable Part 4 – Video Games!Zachery Oliver
The Apostle Paul and The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1M. Joshua Cauller
The Art of Balance: Conclusions (Part 5)Zachery Oliver
The Art of Balance: Is Moderation Good or Bad? (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
The Art of Balance: Nerfs and Buffs (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Art of Balance: Scriptural Evidences (Part 4)Zachery Oliver
The Art of Balance: Symmetry and Asymmetry (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Burden of Sequels and Change (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Burden of Sequels and Change (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Creed of the Assassins (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Creed of the Assassins (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Fall of Seiken Densetsu – Part 1Zachery Oliver
The Fall of Seiken Densetsu – Part 2Zachery Oliver
The Fall of Seiken Densetsu (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
The Japanese Style (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Japanese Style (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Necessary Turn: A Video Game Eucatastrophe – Materialism and the Role of Myth (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Necessary Turn: A Video Game Eucatastrophe – The Illusions of Choice (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Pause Button (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Pause Button (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Pause Button (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
The Prickly Problem of Private Servers (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Prickly Problem of Private Servers (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
The Quest for a Japanese Xbox 360 Part 1 – Shmups Are Fun!Zachery Oliver
The Quest for a Japanese Xbox 360 Part 2 – The Travails of ImportingZachery Oliver
The Theology Gaming Sessions: M. Joshua CaullerBryan Hall
The Theology of Horror Games – The Biblical Approach to Horror (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
The Theology of Horror Games: Introduction (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The True Horde, The Only Horde, and Pride Part 1 – The Villains of WoWZachery Oliver
The True Horde, The Only Horde, and Pride Part 2 – Grom’s Legacy and Human PersonalityZachery Oliver
The True Horde, The Only Horde, and Pride Part 3 – Changing the Framework of Your Life Through ChristZachery Oliver
The Wind Waker’s Trinity Problem (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
The Wind Waker’s Trinity Problem (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Theology Gaming Manifesto?Zachery Oliver
Theology Gaming’s Best Games of 2013M. Joshua Cauller
Third Day of Christmas – Wolfenstein: The New OrderElijah
Twelth Day of Christmas – RAGEJosephL
Understanding Game AI and Design Part 1: Intro and State MachinesZachery Oliver
Understanding Game AI and Design Part 2: Planning Systems and TerrainZachery Oliver
Understanding Game AI and Design Part 3: Examples and ConclusionsZachery Oliver
Video Game Simulation and Christian Imagination (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Video Game Simulation and Christian Imagination (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Video Games and Anger (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Video Games and Anger (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Video Games and Anger (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – A Blizzard Case StudyZachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – A Proper Theology of Money (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – A Proper Theology of Money (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – Corporate Approaches to Customers (Not Consumers)Zachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – Corporate PersonhoodZachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – Manipulation or Satisfaction?Zachery Oliver
Video Games as a Business – Patronage and its EffectsZachery Oliver
Video Games as Business – IntroductionZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Addressing the Critics and Game StudiesZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Avoiding AbstractionsZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – ConclusionsZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Defining the Video GameZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – IntroductionZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Judging Video Games as “Art” (1)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Judging Video Games as “Art” (2)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Judging Video Games as “Art” (3)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – LudologyZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – NarratologyZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Preliminary Objections (1)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Preliminary Objections (2)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Understanding The “Live” CreatureZachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Video Games as Pragmatic Experiences (1)Zachery Oliver
Video Games, Art, and Objective Standards – Video Games as Pragmatic Experiences (2)Zachery Oliver
Violence and Video Games (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
Violence and Video Games (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
WAR (An Intertain Exploration)Ayk Iano
What did GameCell choose for Choice Night?M. Joshua Cauller
What’s Great About God of War? (Part 1)Zachery Oliver
What’s Great About God of War? (Part 2)Zachery Oliver
What’s Great About God of War? (Part 3)Zachery Oliver
Why Do You Play Video Games?Zachery Oliver
Why Do You Play Video Games? – A DebateZachery Oliver
Why Does Yann Wong Play Video Games?Yann Wong
Why I Play Video GamesBryan Hall
Wolf Nipples – Toplessness in Wolf Among Us: Episode 2M. Joshua Cauller
World of WarCraft PvP – AshranZachery Oliver
World of WarCraft PvP – ConclusionsZachery Oliver
World of WarCraft PvP – NegativesZachery Oliver
World of WarCraft PvP – PositivesZachery Oliver
World of WarCraft PvP – RemediesZachery Oliver