Left Behind Games: New game, social site

Among the rapidly multiplying niche social-networking sites is the just-launched DreamWebSpace.com. It's another brainchild of Left Behind Games, "evangelical Christian software corporation spun off the best-selling book series," CNET reports. Left Behind is promoting it as a "safe and profanity-free alternative to services like MySpace that have largely unregulated content." As for the company's just-released game Left Behind: Eternal Forces, I decided to see how much coverage it has been getting and a search of Google News turned up more than 200 news outlets around the US and overseas picking up the story about the controversy it has sparked. A couple of examples are from Reuters and the Associated Press, the latter a brief item on a Presbyterian minister's protest against the game. Reuters earlier described the game this way: It's "set in New York City after millions of Christians have been transported to heaven. Players are charged with recruiting, and converting, an army that will engage in physical and spiritual warfare with the antichrist and his evil followers."