Patrick Rost

There may not be many of you out there, but if the things you cherish most in this life are digital pinball machines and Fox Entertainment’s animated programming, life just simply got better for you.  Where in the past you may have been required to watch Family Guy while

Deify me if you must, video game, but I don’t necessarily see myself as a God for simply creating the universe.  Perhaps when that doodled fire came near that doodled earth, the resulting doodled lava was not the intent of some benevolent Doodle Deity, but rather the result of

Usually when you think of the apocalyptic wastes from some of your favorite games, the mind travels to a place where great evil exists, delivering a snapshot of some brutal act you’ve committed in the aftermath of nuclear winter. Perhaps it is the nature of the setting, but even

While the politics surrounding criminal punishment and the prison system remain controversial and deeply dividing, the one thing that we can all agree on is that prisons are a necessity. No one wants to live surrounded by murderers, thieves, and frauds, and so when we identify those foul characters in

Sometimes even a murderous demon deserves a second chance.  Rarely does a soul shackled by evil redeem itself, just as rarely does a lackluster game suddenly gain appeal.  That does not mean, however, that we should always turn away from possible redemption cases.  Those few that manage to turn the

Lost out in the cold grippings of space, left with only a laser pistol and a limited health support system, most beings would crumble to frightened pieces and remain there until their rapid deaths.  Gamers may contend that years of experience in simulated space would harden them to the reality

It was during that most disgusting era of human history, the Middle Ages, where the famous Genghis Khan used catapulted bubonic corpses to spread the plague into the cities and castles that the roving conqueror  intended to take.  While that option strangely never shows up, you can instead spend some

There are people who will never pay for, play, or even hear or speak of Viridi.  Those blessed children of luck and splendor will go through their life with their faith in gaming intact, taking to the grave a sort of pure and adorable innocence that playing Viridi robs you