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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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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 »
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he wouldn't be very good. More »
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Richard Knaak's World of Warcraft Stormrage is getting the audio book treatment, BlizzPlanet points out. More »
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Mega Man fans might have been looking forward to "Mega Man: Complete History," which Barnes & Noble had listed for pre-order earlier this year. Publisher Chronicle Books told Go Nintendo the project has been scrapped. More »
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Yesterday, we mentioned the fact that game designers often walk a fine line when figuring out how best to dangle a nice, looty carrot in front of their audience; somewhat on the same subject (loot!), Roger Travis goes back to the Iliad and even further to illustrate some ancient roots of the same thing we see in modern MMOs: grinding, loot, and boss battles, oh my! And really, even that squad you're running end game content with harkens back to an older group of 'heroes': More »
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Some of us here at Kotaku are fond of the idea of highbrow literature getting the game treatment. Suda 51's Kurayami, based on Franz Kafka's The Castle, could be leading the pack in games inspired by literature not really associated with great fodder for the gaming medium. But what of the downsides of a gaming landscape that includes Joyce and Lawrence?: More »
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We posted a little musing on books that should be made into games a while back, which spawned plenty of discussion. Now someone's gone the extra step and added screenshots and more complex mechanic ideas for Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff's Revenge, Huckleberry Finn's Xtreme Rafting, and To Kill a Mockingbird: Furor Excessum: More »
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Have you ever dreamed of entering a fantastical world filled with adventure, danger, and furries faeries? I know, only every day, right? Well Sierra Entertainment and Stormfront Studio are looking to make that dream come true, as they announce The Spiderwick Chronicles, the game of the movie of the book series, coming in 2008 for the Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, PC, and Nintendo DS. Based off of the 2008 film by Nickelodeon Films and Paramount, the game will follow the adventures of twins Jared and Simon and their sister Mallory Grace as they move into the decrepit Spiderwick Estate and discover a field guide to fairies that launches them into an alternate world full of magical creatures such as brownies, elves, and nixies *happy sigh*. It's all based off a series of children's books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, who do a lovely job of creating captivating stories in the vein Narnia author C.S. Lewis. Children young and old can start exploring the Spiderwick Estate next February. More »
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Indian game site GameGuru interviewed the team behind upcoming PC title and possible Xbox 360 port Mahabharata: The Dawn of Kaliyuga — A game created by Gujarat-based dev Syncere Arts. Says the team: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=243152&view=rss&microfeed=true High School student, Bei337, was working on an English project on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and decided that World of Warcraft was a perfect match for the 14th century classic. So, he created this little machinima for his assignment and ended up getting the highest grade in the class along with the admiration of his fellow students and teacher. It might not be winning any awards for voice acting (didn't he have any friends in the Drama club?) but, you got to give the kid props for the awesome combination of video games, literature and education. Huzzah! Flynn De Marco More »
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Tipper SixSider points us to this CNET article, in which it is reported that the MacArthur Foundation is set to announced a $240,000 grant to Edward Castronova and his team to build "Arden: The World of Shakespeare," a Bard-based MMO. More »
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A Minnesota middle school teacher had problems getting through the magic of reading to the illiterate, spaced-out cretins in his eighth grade English class. His solution? Irrelevantly and inappropriately comparing the plots of Homerian epics to Sega hedgehogs who can just run really fast. More »
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