Offworld

The rating on the Worldview Intrusiveness Scale for 'Offworld' is about a 3 on a scale of 1-10.

Offworld Blog Tour: Day Three nissa_amas_katoj 2009

'Offworld' is not the kind of book where the action stops so that characters can share long stories about how they got 'saved', or give Bible lectures that (sometimes) tie into the plot.

Offworld Blog Tour: Day Three nissa_amas_katoj 2009

I must hasten to point out that I am NOT saying, from my current Christian point of view, that 'Offworld' is does not have enough Christian content, or that certain other Christian fiction works have too much --- or that Mercedes Lackey's 'Children of the Night' has too much Wiccan content.

Offworld Blog Tour: Day Three nissa_amas_katoj 2009

Offworld is not lying: The Ocarina of Rhyme is the greatest video-game/hip-hop mash-up of our age. [download link]

The Ocarina of Rhyme « Gerry Canavan 2009

This is the third day of the blog tour for the book 'Offworld' by Robin Parrish.

Offworld Blog Tour: Day Three nissa_amas_katoj 2009

And so I feel qualified to give some hints as to how 'Offworld' will stack up to the Pagan reader.

Offworld Blog Tour: Day Three nissa_amas_katoj 2009

And thanks, as well, to Federated Media for putting it all together, especially Jason Ratner, Mugs Buckley, and Matt Jessell., who suggested the name "Offworld" to me for a gaming site a couple of years ago.

the-inbetween.com 2008

Recently on Offworld, Ragdoll Metaphysics columnist Jim Rossignol takes the occasion of J.G. Ballard's death to argue that, with his future of boredom -- of calm consumer choices and deadened emotions -- realised, that videogames are an ideal safe excursion to violence and excitement, outlets for Ballard's "vast systems of competing psychopathies."

Boing Boing 2009

Recently on Offworld: Valve talks Left 4 Dead, Metroid goes metal, Elvis goes techno on DS

Boing Boing 2009

Elsewhere on Offworld we saw even more newly announced games coming out of the ongoing GamesCom conference: Lionhead returning with Fable III, top-down zombie shooter Dead Nation, which will apparently have individual countries competing to fully eliminate the undead virus, more of Sony's PSP cult cute platformer Loco Roco, and Hudson's The Tower of Shadow, in which you play as the shadow.

Boing Boing 2009