Games
In Fallout 2, if Lt. Col. Dr. Charles Curling is convinced that his research, if used as others plan, will result in genocide, he recites "The Tyger".
The online game Lost Souls uses the Proverbs of Hell as magical control phrases for a kind of enchanted wand created by the Aligned, a group of artist-philosopher-magicians.
The RuneScape character Bill Blakey, a musician and poet, is a William Blake homage.
The art for the Yu-Gi-Oh! card "Red Dragon Archfiend" appears to be an intentional homage to the Great Red Dragon Paintings.
Assets for the game Dante's Inferno draw upon Blake's illustrations to Dante as well as those by Gustave Doré and Auguste Rodin.
David Axelrod's "Holy Thursday", from his album Songs of Innocence (inspired by Blake's work of the same name), is included on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto IV.
Read more about this topic: William Blake In Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the word games:
“The rules of drinking games are taken more serious than the rules of war.”
—Chinese proverb.
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)