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The VOICE of the FAMILY in GAMING Family Friendly Gaming The VOICE of the TM FAMILY in GAMING Ace Combat 7, Dragon Quest He- roes II and more in this stunning issue!! ISSUE #115 Knack is coming back in Knack 2. Are you ready? February 2017 CONTENTS ISSUE #115 February 2017 CONTENTS Links: Home Page Section Page(s) Editor’s Desk 4 Female Side 5 Comics 7 Sound Off 8 - 10 Look Back 12 Quiz 13 Devotional 14 Helpful Thoughts 15 In The News 16 - 23 We Would Play That! 24 Reviews 25 - 37 Sports 38 - 41 Developing Games 42 - 67 Now Playing 68 - 83 Last Minute Tidbits 84 - 106 “Family Friendly Gaming” is trademarked. Contents of Family Friendly Gaming is the copyright of Paul Bury, and Yolanda Bury with the exception of trademarks and related indicia (example Digital Praise); which are prop- erty of their individual owners. Use of anything in Family Friendly Gaming that Paul and Yolanda Bury claims copyright to is a violation of federal copyright law. Contact the editor at the business address of: Family Friendly Gaming 7910 Autumn Creek Drive Cordova, TN 38018 [email protected] Trademark Notice Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft all have trademarks on their respective machines, and games. The current seal of approval, and boy/girl pics were drawn by Elijah Hughes thanks to a wonderful donation from Tim Emmerich. Peter and Noah are inspiration to their parents. Family Friendly Gaming Page 2 Page 3 Family Friendly Gaming Editor’s Desk FEMALE SIDE Taking time off from all of these shows has forum to paid protestors. It can be compli- End of Corruption? been wonderful. I wish I would have seen Crazy Winter cated to find the truth. Many of the modern it sooner. I had heard the complaints from day television shows reflect this. Characters Will 2017 be the end of the corruption in the video game The winter this year has been crazy. From snow and ice a variety of people about them. Now I real- have multiple biases influencing their actions. industry? Will morals return to the video game industry storms to warm weather. I can’t keep it straight because it ize why they are so wasteful. I would rather I hope things settle down this spring in 2017? Will ethics return to the video game industry in has been all over the place. It also makes doing everything invest in bringing you improvements in and summer. I look forward to a more nor- 2017? Will integrity return to the video game industry in a real pain. One day we need winter coats and a few later Family Friendly Gaming, our videos, and mal season coming up. I am thankful to put 2017? Will honor return to the video game industry in we are fine without a jacket. This winter has kept us on more. I would rather invest that money in this winter behind me. It has been crazy on 2017? I certainly hope we see a return of all of those things our toes. From the roads being too bad to drive on to the retro games, new games, and systems. Fam- so many levels and in so many ways. I hope in the year of our Lord 2017. I know the trust of the bil- slushy yard. The ants can’t figure it out either. Should they ily Friendly Gaming has seen an explosion we see things return to a more normal state lionaire video game companies is at an all time low. I know hibernate or go look for some food? Plants started to grow thanks to that decision. I want to thank you again. What have you thought of this winter? that video game prices plummet faster than a brick in the again only to die off. for being such major supporters of that direc- What has it been like in your area? Do you middle of a lake. I know I have faith, hope, confidence, and Out of all of the winters I remember from my life tion. Keep your thoughts, prayers, ideas, and feel these are birthing pains - a sign of the last love that things will get better in our industry. time this one has been the strangest. Then again there have more coming in. We listen. days? It requires more than me though. Every single gam- been plenty of strange things going on in the world. We er needs to stand up for things that are right. Every single have seen the return of hope. The feeling that the bad times God bless, God bless, family needs to let their voice be heard. I have written are starting to thaw. Sadly some people are angry and mad Paul Bury Yolanda Bury about this issue before. I have floated all kinds of interest- that things are starting to get better again in America. As if ing ideas that would increase fairness, improve the busi- they want America to become a third world country with ness model, and make the industry better as a whole. These a horrible economy and all kinds of corruption. That they red news stories are out there free for anyone to read and want to steal from those who have accomplished more than implement. So which video game company executives have they have. the strength, fortitude, and vision to make it so? Which Could this be the calm before the storm? It re- company employees will speak out about implementing minds me of how the Holy Bible describes the end times. 2 improvements? Timothy 3:1-5 But mark this: There will be terrible times in In my first published book Video Game Lies I wrote the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of about the definition of words. What is the definition of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, good? What is the definition of evil? The video game in- ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, dustry has started to radicalize way too far to the political without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treach- left. We are seeing Nazi like policies implemented at some erous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers companies. These same companies claim to celebrate diver- of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. sity while discriminating against Christians and conserva- Have nothing to do with such people. Sound a lot like what tives. This is a big black eye on the video game industry. It we are seeing doesn’t it? makes the entire industry look bad. It is time for this radi- One thing noticeable about this winter is extremes. cal far left invasion to be halted, and stopped. Companies From extreme cold temperatures to extreme warm temper- that claim to celebrate diversity need to celebrate Christian atures. Extremes seem more common in our times. Maybe people, morals, ethics, lessons, and more. Otherwise they the Internet helps give the extremes attention. There have will continue to be mocked, and scorned for their blatant been extremes in video games too. From the corruption double standard. and lack of objectivity from the ESRB to the radicaliza- There are too many shows, and too many events tion in video games. Obedience to God is something rarely in too many locations. They last too long, they cost too mentioned in way too many corners in our day and age. much money, and the value from them is minimal. I don’t Especially within the video game industry. plan on having Family Friendly Gaming attend any events Too many have wanted to hide this winter. From this year. We are considering attending an event in 2018. corruption exposed via emails being hacked in the political Family Friendly Gaming Page 4 Page 5 Family Friendly Gaming Lesson-based EDUCATION & FUN Mission Statement Family Friendly Gaming (FFG) was cre- ated in March of the year of our Lord 2005 as the first ever Christian video game magazine. The goal of Family Friendly Gaming is to report on video games from the family view point. Family Friendly Gaming takes a fair and bal- anced approach to all news, previews, reviews, interviews, features, and other Colossians: 9781935915010 | 1 Peter: 9780976054870 | 2 Peter: 9780976054887 | Phillipians: 9781935915010 | James: 9780976054863 articles found within. The secular video 1 Timothy: 9780976054825 | 2 Timothy: 9780976054894 | Interactive Parables: 9780976054801 | Interactive Parables Spanish: 9780976054818 game media reports mainly on the most morally bankrupt games and call those games good. The major secular media Interactive Bible Series for Windows by GraceWorks Interactive reports on the bad side of video games mainly. Most other Christian media outlets claim video games turn the player into a zombie, or they completely wor- ship video games. Family Friendly Gam- ing reports the good, and bad side effects alog features 1 to video games. It is the belief of the s cat 500 Thi + owners that readers are smart enough to vailable Homesch come to their conclusions without those 0 a ool 00 titl in the media handing opinions to them. DVD-ROMs contain PowerPoint Bible stories, 3 - 5 on 9 es each disk. The PowerPoints contain stunning lifelike of . Those of us at Family Friendly Gaming still graphics. Not cartoons, but computer generated photorealistic imagery. Their purpose is to provide a believe by giving you the facts, you can great backdrop while the teacher articulates the story, decide for yourself. There are plenty of re- there is no audio, but a lesson outline is provided for the teacher along with Bible references. Each story also has ally good video games on the market that a printable PDF activity sheet and a coloring page.
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