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EA founder Trip Hawkins and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both lend their stories to Gamers At Work, a new book that features interviews and anecdotes from a whole bunch of well-known game designers and developers. More »
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I play Skyrim obsessively, like lots of people. I'm also a full-time antiquarian book dealer and during my glorious attempts to become a leather-clad death machine in The Elder Scrolls V, I'm always tempted to make some in-game coin on the side collecting and selling the hundreds of available antiquarian titles. Books such as Advances in Lock-picking or Dwemer Inquiries Vol. III offer both arcane and practical lore to thereader as well as deep context for the game's developed history, technology and culture. More »
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Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you're curious what the book's all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five minute clip from the novel's audiobook version. More »
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Death and his pal War team-up to save the day this year in Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, a series prequel that takes place a millenia before the opening credits of the first game. More »
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What do you do after founding and retiring from one of video games' most successful development houses? If you're Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin, you write books. More »
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Boutique French publishing house Pix'n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They're releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega's little blue mascot. More »
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The road to 343 Industries' Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series from Star Wars and Gears of War scribe Karen Traviss that bridges the gap between the third and fourth games. Want to read a huge chunk of it? You've come to the right place. More »
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We scored a few minutes with the Zombiefather George A. Romero at the kick-off to AMC's Fear Fest celebration. He shared his thoughts on undead sensation Walking Dead — and his plans for his next project, adapting The Zombie Autopsies. More »
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Hoping to capture the attention of both traditional pen-and-paper role-players and video game RPG fans, Wizards of the Coast wants to put the city of Neverwinter on the minds of fantasy fans everywhere. That's why they've called in the big guns: author R.A. Salvatore and his most famous creation, Drizzt Do'Urden. More »
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Reddit user notadoctoreither shall henceforth be known as king of the Oblivion fans, having spent a month's time and $130 collecting the countless books scattered across the game's cities and towns into one gorgeous tome, and you can too. More »
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You may not be familiar with the name "John Patrick Lowrie." You probably are familiar with the name "Sniper," whom Lowrie voices in Team Fortress 2. He's just published the novel Dancing With Eternity and, well, his friends are giving it some kind reviews on Amazon. More »
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Sony is sandwiching Uncharted 3's November 1 release between a brand-new novel and a six-issue comic book series, delving deeper into Drake's fiction than ever before. More »
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Jeremy Schultz loves taking photos of action figures. No posing, no irony. Just unadorned portraits of aging, flaking action figures, which for those of a certain age will evoke quite a bit of memory. (And no small bit of "God, was that thing really that ugly?") More »
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Born of Hurricane Katrina and the passing of a dear friend, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is more than a poignant, interactive allegory, it is the budding metamorphosis of the narrative. More »
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In 2006 when science fiction author Karen Traviss' editor asked her if she wanted to do a military video game tie-in novel, it was the first she'd heard of Epic Games' Gears of War. Today she's responsible for the entire fictional universe, steering the adventure of Marcus Fenix and company to its inevitable conclusion and beyond. More »
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Comic book worlds collide next year, as The LEGO Group announces a pair of deals that bring DC Comics' finest and the forces of the Marvel Universe under the banner of LEGO Super Heroes. Can new LEGO games be far behind? More »
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If more story is what you crave from DICE's big first-person shooter due in the fall, you'll have to crack a book. Battlefield 3 is coming to paper and e-books, courtesy of writer Andy McNab, who's penning the first-person shooter inspired novel. More »
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There's still no firm date on Blizzard's next entry in the Diablo series, but at least one of the game's official tie-ins, Diablo III: Book of Cain, is expected to arrive in 2011. So what is Diablo III: Book of Cain? More »
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Dickens, Bronte, Orwell, Stevenson; they're all rolling over in their graves right now. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5814780&view=rss&microfeed=true Head to Tor Books' website to read an excerpt from author John Shirley's "BioShock: Rapture," a prequel novel set for release on July 19. [Tor Books] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5813046&view=rss&microfeed=true From now until June 12th, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories will be available for free through all major ebook retailers. [Rockstar] More »
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You can skip to your favorite scene in a movie, flip to an exciting chapter in a book you've read, but you can't just drop into a video game you've finished at any given point. In today's Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Smorlock wonders why. More »
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Mario has gone through three distinct phases of super popularity. One in the early 90's. One is seemingly just on the wane, born of the success of his games on the DS and Wii. The other, though, was in the mid-80's. More »
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Kyle Lambert knows how ridiculous it sounds when he says he wants to write a Minecraft novel. He knows it seems odd. He knows that people will wonder how such a novel could be about anything other than lots of block-stacking and digging. More »
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Watchmen writer Alan Moore is famous for not wanting to see the properties he creates for comic books taken outside of the medium, but what about properties created with multiple mediums in mind? At a recent question and answer session celebrating his magazine Dodgem Logic, Moore hinted that such a project was in the works and a video game could be on the table. More »
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I like LEGO. Do you like LEGO? Bet you do. So let's all wish we could find a way to justify spending $80 on this glorious hardcover book and...wait a minute. $80 isn't so bad! More »
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Mike Rose, who runs indie gaming hotspot and Kotaku favourite Indiegames.com, has written a book called "250 Indie Games You Must Play". Note that it's not "250 Indie Games You Must Play Before You DIE", so there's no rush. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5787089&view=rss&microfeed=true The funniest character from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Paul isn't the little gray alien — it's Jeffrey Tambor's Adam Shadowchild. We interviewed Pegg and Frost and got the backstory on Tambor's arrogant science fiction author. [io9] More »
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The bloody conflict in the Kingdom of Westeros comes to life in the first screens of A Game of Thrones: Genesis, the real-time strategy game based on acclaimed fantasy author George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga. More »
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Last year, we shared in the disappointment that a video game based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby turned out to be not so great. This year, we're enjoying a new, 8-bit take on one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5760338&view=rss&microfeed=true Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels is being adapted for movies and television. Also planned? A "very ambitious game component [...] that will further utilize elements from the books," says an AICN source. More »
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Sucker Punch's inFamous for the PlayStation 3 was a comic book superhero origin story without a comic book. Thanks to DC Comics, there is now a comic book series on the way, with Doug Mahnke cover art to boot. More »
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After creating a pair of gorgeous tribute books for Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, it's finally time for the Blue Bomber to shine. Udon Publishing has started compiling Mega Man Tribute, and they want your fan art. More »
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Del Rey brings the story of Crysis 2 to book stores everywhere in March with Crysis: Legion, the official game novelization by Peter Watts, the Canadian science fiction author once famously involved in a scuffle with the U.S. Border Patrol. More »
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Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let's take a look at the thing, eh? More »
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Who knows if we'll have an Uncharted 3 to play a year from now, but at least we can be certain that we'll have a new Nathan Drake adventure we can read. The first Uncharted novel hits next fall. More »
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THQ's grim view of the future, in which North Korea somehow has the wherewithal to invade the United States, is being ported to books. Homefront is getting a novelization from people who know how to make game stories readable. More »
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In July 1937, author F. Scott Fitzgerald arrived in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald was at the tail-end of his writing career and hoped to pick up some extra scratch penning screenplays. More »
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Controversial author Salman Rushdie has just released a new children's book, and interestingly, it's got a strong foundation in video games. More »
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Before Lucasarts came along, the top adventure game minds in the world worked for a now-defunct publisher called Sierra. This coffee table book collects the art from those games, and I am now feeling very nostalgic. More »
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