Video Game Book Club – Join Elise and Savvy every month for an hour or so chat about books and other media that tie into Video Games.
Halo: The Fall of Reach is the first Halo novel ever made. It’s the prequel to the first game Halo: Combat Evolved. I respect the audacity of the Halo franchise to make most of the novels canon, however it creates some inconsistency with the games. When recording this podcast I originally was...
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The Knuckles mini-series based on the live-action CGI hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog movies is now on Paramount+. After the major disappointment that was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 I was skeptical about this series, lucky Knuckles did not disappoint. The story follows Wade Whipple being trained in the way of ...
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For the Video Game A.V. Club (a subsidiary of the Video Game Book Club) we watched the brand spanking new Fallout TV show available on Amazon Prime streaming. We spend 3 hours telling you our thoughts and feeling over on our podcast but I’ll sum it up here. Its pretty good. As far as adaptati...
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For the Video Game Book Club we read Tom Clancy’s The Division: Recruited, the first in the Operation Crossroads series. It’s a great read if you are a fan of The Division or if you want a fast-paced tactical novel. I was really surprised with how much I liked this book. I ha...
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For the SGN’s Video Game Book Club we read The Witcher novel the Last Wish, a prequel to The Witcher book series. It’s a sort of short story collection of Geralt of Rivia reminiscing about his adventures as a Witcher. Each chapter starts off with a “Voice of Reason” which is...
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For the video game book club we read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier. It’s one of our first non-fiction novels that are about the creation of video games and not a tie-in novel to an already existing franchise. I ha...
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For our book and A/V club this month we read Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and watched the film adaptation Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. Both these works are inspirations for the video game series S.T.A.L.K.E.R. In case you don’t know S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person-sho...
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Horizon Zero Dawn The Sunhawk tells the story of Talanah after the events of Horizon Zero Dawn. Aloy is hardly in this comic, It’s all about Talanah and her journey and struggles. A new Clawstrider has appeared in the wild and she along with a new friend Amadis has to take it out. Amadis gets...
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For SGN’s Video Game Book Club we read the Alan Wake novel. Alan Wake is a physiological thriller with some supernatural elements thrown in. Think of it as if Stephen King would have written Twin Peaks. This is the novelization of the first game and follows famous writer Alan Wake as he a...
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For the Video Game Book Club we read Bioshock Rapture. A prequel to the beloved video game Bioshock. However it is not canon according to Bioshock Creative director Ken Levine, because he didn’t read it. You follow many characters throughout the novel including but not limited to; Andre...
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