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.
At least one of the stories is good For our yearly Fnaf novel we picked the first in the Fazbear Frights series titled Into the Pit. It consists of three novella-length horror stories and one of those is even being turned into a game. Into the Pit the first novella in the Fazbear Frights series...
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover may not be the best introduction to the new Insomniac Spider-Man games. For last month’s Video Game Book Club we read Spider-Man Hostile Takeover by David Liss. This was written as a prequal for Insomniacs first Marvel Spider-Man game coming out ...
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This years Summer Games Fest seems to put the spotlight on indie titles. Usually this event is the kick off for the new era of E3 but as you can see this is the second showcase to happen this week. Below I will show you SGN’s highlights of the event as well as highlights from the Day of the D...
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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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