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the binding of isaac

Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Gaming and Masturbating, Masturbating and Gaming

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G. Christopher Williams
/ 18 December 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Enjoying the Social Death

By
Scott Juster
/ 5 September 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Games

Playing to Suffer, Suffering to Play

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 23 April 2013
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Thinking About ‘Cunt’

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 26 September 2012
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Brevity, Death, and Replay Value

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 19 September 2012
Featured: Top of Home Page/Features/Games

The Pleasures of Playing in an Economy of Pain

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 16 August 2012
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Moving Pixels Podcast: Back to Isaac’s Basement

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 12 March 2012
Featured: Top of Home Page/Games/Moving Pixels

Returning to My Own Vomit: Playing ‘The Binding of Isaac’

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 22 February 2012
Fearing God, Fearing the Body: The Theology of ‘The Binding of Isaac’
Games/Moving Pixels

Fearing God, Fearing the Body: The Theology of ‘The Binding of Isaac’

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 15 February 2012

The premise of The Binding of Isaac seems a skewering of religion, as the game parallels the story of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac, with tendencies towards religious mania and child abuse.

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