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Religion, Atheism & Videogames (Nihilistically Ever After)

Critical Gamer writes: This article represents my personal views, which do not necessarily coincide with those of anybody else at Critical Gamer. Readers should also note that this article contains spoilers regarding the ending of God of War III.

If you consider yourself to be a follower of a religion, have you ever thought about how your gaming hobby might clash with the teachings of your prophet/s or god/s? If you’re an atheist, has it ever occurred to you that perhaps turning your back on all such belief systems has allowed you to sidestep a potential moral minefield when playing videogames?

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Jim Crikey5025d ago

Sort of surprising none of the major religions have discussed this before.

scruffy_bear5025d ago

Nearly every game company have shy away from putting any Religions references in there games

Pidgeridoo5025d ago

It's a pity that they do, but religions groups can be very zealot lot

MariaHelFutura5025d ago (Edited 5025d ago )

That`s completely untrue. The theme might not be religious, but the definitely have concepts of all sorts of religious/occultic mindsets. People need to educate themselves on the past, 10 mins doesn`t pass w/o you seeing some sort of religious/occultic symbolism.

MariaHelFutura5025d ago (Edited 5025d ago )

If you don`t know what your seeing it`s very easy to fall into a "daze" while watching anything.

For instance in Movies...The Wizard Of Oz, Labyrinth, Pan`s Labyrinth and Alice in Wonderland are almost the exact same story retold.....for good reason, I might add. Same with a Movie called "the man who would be king" get retold alot in Disney movies aswell.

And OFCOURSE myself Hel, is re-created in many ways. Starwars takes concept of Metropolis w/ the Golden Robot and losing a hand and having in replaced by a robotic hand. Also, Beyonce wants to re-create Hel aswell, but alot of people just see it for a performance.

http://www.google.com/image...

rrquinta5025d ago

Really interesting article.

Cubes5025d ago

Good article. I think most games companies shy away from using religion in games due to the many fanatics out there, who think that the game is an attack on their religion. I'm just waiting on the backlash from the forthcoming new Medal of Honor game which features the Taliban.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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