Theology Gaming Posts

March 20, 2014 / / Reviews

Punch-Out! is…well, Punch-Out! The story of the plucky underdog against the overly qualified (and humongous) champion continues to delight us all in popular culture. I dare say Punch-Out as a series came directly from the influence of Academy Award-winning film Rocky, who turned this simple tale into a part of our public consciousness. Video games do much the same, throwing overwhelming odds at the player only for them to rise above their circumstance and emerge triumphant.

So yes, it’s basically the book of Esther in video game form.

March 18, 2014 / / Essays

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

1 Peter 5:10

Somehow, I turned into a fitness maven.

March 17, 2014 / / Monday Update

The Fifth Estate – From a standpoint of purely objective analysis, the story of WikiLeaks remains a fascinating window into the advent of the Internet – or, as I like to call it, “The New Wild West”. A lawless place owned by no nation-state or particular group, world governments try their best to regulate it every day and fail miserably. Information flows freely and without distortion, for both good (in the case of peaceful revolutionary movements) and bad (releasing the names of undercover agents throughout the world). If it weren’t for Julian Assange and his associates, we wouldn’t know how much power the World Wide Web holds. People can leak documents without ever being seen or discovered as a whistleblower, unless they reveal themselves. If solely for that, we should be thankful.

It’s also the only thing that lets me run a website about Christianity and video games, coincidentally. That’s a story for another day, however…