In today's fashionably late episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter God Hand BrynnFlynn talks about that old video game weight loss standard, the exercise bike.

A typical game controller might have buttons with shapes or letters, but a controller suited for The Man Upstairs has way more: revolution, flood, epidemic — you name it.

Exactly how many bullets can kill a person? How many apples can one man carry? In real life, the answers vary. In a video game, real life must be explained in numbers. That includes religion: how it spreads, who believes.

Traditionally, historically, video games and religion don't mix.

In the beginning, I played video games. And, often, I played the role of God.

The Rock Band Network jumps into beta, with a comprehensive guide to offensive content featuring a list of "very naughty words," including "Anusdrill," "Paedophile," and "God." Be warned - this post is extremely NSFW.

If four-hour gaming sessions of killing, stealing, coveting thy neighbor's ox or donkey, and breaking every other Commandment leaves you feeling distant from the Lord, a Bible application is coming to Xbox Live's Indie Games channel.

In just a couple of days, E3 will reveal just about every major game you will be able to play in the next year. For action-adventure (and RPG) fans, these are the big ones expected at the big show:

Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool for half-assing term papers graduating on time research. One thing, however, that hasn't changed is the length of an article still means…