Alien Isolation is a great game (in my opinion). The Alien Isolation novelization by Keith R.A. DeCandido is an awful adaptation (in my opinion). It took out the spooky atmosphere, the tension and all the sections of the game I personally thought were cool. The Alien was barely in it and the main t...
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Should probably just read Tevinter Nights For the Video Game Book Club we read Dragon Age the Missing, in preparation for Dragon Age Veilguard coming out on the 31st. It’s supposed to bridge the gap between Inquisition and Veilguard. The story takes place right after Inquisition, Varric an...
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Watch Dogs Dark Clouds is the sequel novel to the Video Game Watch Dogs. It was supposed to be released around the time of the game’s launch, May 27th 2014. It follows Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pearce and his old gang buddy Mick Wolfe as they solve the mystery of who made an attempt on Pea...
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ICO is a Japanese Playstation 2 game designed and directed by Fumito Ueda. He was inspired to create ICO when he saw a commercial of a woman holding a child’s hand while walking through the woods. Another inspiration was the manga/anime series Galaxy Express 999 where a woman named Maetel ado...
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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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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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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 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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