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3DO's Four Horsemen Not Quite Dead Yet
Thanks to IGN PS2 for its article discussing the seeming resurrection of 3DO's Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse, the PlayStation 2 "action-horror title" whose fate was unknown following 3DO's bankruptcy auction last year. Apparently, "After 3DO shut down, a number of investors founded a company called Four Horsemen Entertainment L.L.C. in order to purchase the property. The company officially obtained it on May 12, and development has resumed." According to creator Michael Mendheim: "The new company will begin by releasing comic books and a graphic novel based on the [Simon Bisley character-designed] property, and eventually release a completely revamped version of the video game for next-generation systems."
You're forgetting about the lowest common denominator. Most people reading something like Slashdot (despite the occasional unpleasant poster), are more likely than most to be able to think for themselves. They're less likely to blindly follow a religion. Sometimes religions aren't to be taken literally... sometimes their values and stories are false... but there are always those who look for literal interpretations.
Anyway, in this context, I can see that creating a game from something as base as an apocolyptic religious text is going to strike a chord with more people than most materials would. To a largely Christian audience, it's more likely to have a built-in horror factor to a major portion of the audience. It also wouldn't suprise me if somebody complained about the content somehow being sacreligious because it's not their intepretation of a biblical text.
Personally I agree with your sentiment about governments / corporations being more likely to cause an "end the world" scenario. But, of course, if something like that happened, every religion would spontaneously put their own interpretation and spin on the events. For some, it is far too difficult to accept self-responsibility for our animalistic stupidity and greed - it's much easier to blame a vengeful supernatural entity called "god" instead.