Traditional real-time strategy games have a difficult time conforming to console controllers. It’s hard to select specific units and keep tabs on them with the same fluidity of a mouse. PlayStation Move has a good chance at improving on this issue with its top-notch motion controls. Among the first RTS games to use this feature will be Under Siege. Under Siege is scheduled to release this fall on the PlayStation Network.

September 2006, Afkar Media, a Syrian game company, released a PC Real Time Strategy (RTS) game to positively portray Islam during the first hundred years of its existence. Called Quraish (according to the official website; the Christian Science Monitor calls it Al-Quraysh), players can choose to be one of five powers, including the Romans, the Persians, and a fledgling Muslim empire.

Afkar Media isn’t a new company, having also released Under Siege, a first/third person shooter that follows the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from a Muslim point of view. Both of these games are intended to show Muslims in a more positive light, portraying them as protagonists.

Radwan Kasmiya, executive manager of Afkar Media, believes that …