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EA, Atari Founders Unite For Gamers At Work

2:40AM Yesterday | Jason Schreier

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. More »


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A Bookseller’s Video Game Lament

7:00AM February 7, 2012 | Jason Dickson

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. More »


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Hear Five Minutes Of The Latest Halo Novel, Narrated By Guilty Spark

6:00PM February 4, 2012 | Owen Good

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. More »


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BioWare To ‘Patch’ Error-Laden Mass Effect Novel

10:30AM February 4, 2012 | Kirk Hamilton

Mass Effect fans recently tore into the many errors and inaccuracies in William C Dietz’s new spin-off novel Mass Effect: Deception, putting together a thoroughly damning document cataloging scores of lore-errors and mistakes in the book. More »


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The Hero’s Journey Doesn’t Just Symbolise Death In The Official Darksiders Novel Tie-In

5:00AM February 2, 2012 | Mike Fahey

Death and his pal War team-up to save the day this year in Darksiders: The Abomination Vault, a series prequel that takes place a millenia before the opening credits of the first game. More »


In Real Life

Jak & Daxter Co-Creator Releases Vampire Novel

10:00PM December 30, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

What do you do after founding and retiring from one of video games’ most successful development houses? If you’re Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin, you write books. More »


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The Ultimate Coffee Table Book For Sonic Fans

8:30PM November 18, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

Boutique French publishing house Pix’n Love have you covered this Christmas, Sonic fans. They’re releasing a 300-page compendium celebrating the history of Sega’s little blue mascot. More »


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The Next Chapter In The Halo Saga Begins Right Here

5:20AM October 26, 2011 | Mike Fahey

The road to 343 Industries’ Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series from Star Wars and Gears of War scribe Karen Traviss that bridges the gap between the third and fourth games. Want to read a huge chunk of it? You’ve come to the right place. More »


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Why George Romero Rejected The Walking Dead To Make The Zombie Autopsies

10:40AM October 20, 2011 | Meredith Woerner

We scored a few minutes with the Zombiefather George A. Romero at the kick-off to AMC’s Fear Fest celebration. He shared his thoughts on undead sensation Walking Dead — and his plans for his next project, adapting The Zombie Autopsies. More »


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World’s Most Famous Dark Elf Carves A Path To Neverwinter

8:00AM October 5, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Hoping to capture the attention of both traditional pen-and-paper role-players and video game RPG fans, Wizards of the Coast wants to put the city of Neverwinter on the minds of fantasy fans everywhere. That’s why they’ve called in the big guns: author R.A. Salvatore and his most famous creation, Drizzt Do’Urden. More »