Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Christians purge video game demons

BBC NEWS | World | Americas |: "The Devil, they say, has all the best tunes. Until now he has also had the video games market sewn up.

From the demonic violence of Doom to the sinister Resident Evil series, many of today's most successful titles draw inspiration from dark places.

But a growing band of Christian game developers are taking a stand.

Reverend Ralph Bagley, 41, is a man with a mission. 'I have always been a gamer since the days of Pong and Pacman,' he told BBC News.

'But as the games got nastier, I was getting pretty conflicted about coming home from church and playing things like Doom and Quake.

'I began to look for something else, but there was a gaping hole in the market.'

Earlier this year, the father of two founded the Christian Game Developers Foundation, aiming to drag Christian games from obscurity to the mainstream.

'Simply forbidding our children from playing video games is not the answer,' says Rev Bagley."

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