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.
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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For the Video Game Book Club we read Five Nights at Freddy’s The Silver Eyes, both the novel and the comic. It is a re-imagining of the first FNAF game. Author and creator of FNAF Scott Cawthon states that the novel is canon same as the games, however its in a separate continuity. According t...
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They finally did it. They finally made the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie after years of humming and hawing, and it’s as campy as it should be. It’s a good rendition of the first game with some things added to make the story longer and relate to the newer FNAF titles. It’s no...
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Savvy Gaming Network Book Club read the novelization of Dead Island. Its loosely based on the plot on the game, there are some changes to characters and locations. The ending is different then the game, so if you have played Dead Island then the novel will be a different experience. The descriptive...
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A Far Cry 5 Novel For the Video Game book club we read Far Cry Absolution, a novel that takes place before the events of Far Cry 5. Sadly the book doesn’t tell the reader how the Church of Eden’s Gate was formed but more of how it affected Hope County. The book follows a local hunte...
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