Mass: We Pray: Holy Hoax, Batman?

Mass: We Pray: Holy Hoax, Batman?

November 17, 2009

A new website and video have been launched for a game called Mass: We Pray, which allows families to "go to church every day without leaving your home."

The game site shows off a cross and kneeling bench controller, utilizing what looks like a Wii Remote as its sensor. Pre-orders for the game, which supposedly is coming out Easter of 2010, are set to begin this Friday.

Gametrailers has already posted the video, but a few sites, including this one, are a bit skeptical as to the legit nature of the site or the game. So we did some checking.

The developer, Prayer Works Interactive, says it was created in 2007 in Boston. A quick search of the Internet finds no company web site, and a search of Boston's business listings shows no company by that name. A call to Boston directory assistance again provided no listing or number.

The domain search for the site shows that the owner is hidden (through Domain Discreet), and that the web site is hosted by MediaTemple. It seems unlikely that a religious company that has been in business for two years would want to keep itself secret.

So while indicators seem to point to hoax, it is a pretty elaborate. Graphics look more like LEGO: We Pray, but there are several screenshots available and the video shows what appears to be some interactivity, although that easily be a video playing the background.

We'll see if the site changes at all come Nov. 20 and preorders supposedly begin.

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Re: Mass: We Pray: Holy Hoax, Batman?
And one step further, a search of the MA Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division yields no registered corporation for Prayer Works Interactive. (http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corp/corpsearch/corpsearchinput.asp)
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