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We’ve touched on popular science fiction and fantasy novels that need to have video games made out of them in the past, but commenter TheGizmofromPizmo‘s list of 10 contains some rather intriguing ideas, hence today’s Speak Up on Kotaku.
We real-world Earthlings take for granted that the seasons will change on schedule. Our planet’s clockwork-like seasonality allows us to predict the passage of time with complete precision, and we can always be sure that spring is right around the corner. The same cannot be said, however, for the unlucky inhabitants of George R. R. Martin’s Westeros.
The Portal games have been beautiful, haven’t they? The first one presented a simple, clean aesthetic that worked as a great backdrop to the clever gameplay and snarky humour of Chell’s battle of wits against GLaDOS. Then, last year, Portal 2 took Aperture Science’s glistening white test chambers and destroyed them, letting players roam through the innards of Cave Johnson’s company. And lo, it was glorious.
Game of Thrones returns to HBO this Sunday, and at last our burning questions will be answered. For some of us, those questions include, “What happens next to Arya and Sansa in the wake of their father’s death?” For others of us, they’re more like, “How can a television show possibly capture everything that happens in George R.R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings?” Either way, we’re happy to tell you that we’ve seen the first four episodes of the season, and we don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
All of them? All of the video games? Then buy this book. It’ll tell you how!
EA founder Trip Hawkins and Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell both lend their stories to Gamers At Work, a new book that features interviews and anecdotes from a whole bunch of well-known game designers and developers.
I play Skyrim obsessively, like lots of people. I’m also a full-time antiquarian book dealer and during my glorious attempts to become a leather-clad death machine in The Elder Scrolls V, I’m always tempted to make some in-game coin on the side collecting and selling the hundreds of available antiquarian titles.
Halo: Primordium, by Greg Bear, released just after the new year, and if you’re curious what the book’s all about, Macmillan has provided Kotaku with this five-minute clip from the novel’s audiobook version.
