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In Real Life

How Hollywood Managed To Not Screw Up Mortal Kombat, The Movie

Editor’s note: Hollywood seems to have a penchant for shitty video game adaptations, don’t they? But the utter disaster that was a movie like Super Mario Bros. didn’t quite scare away movie producers and directors.

October 26, 2011
News

The Next Chapter In The Halo Saga Begins Right Here

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.

October 20, 2011
In Real Life

From Yale To Persia: Private Diaries Of Gaming’s Renaissance Man

In 1985 Jordon Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first video game, Karateka, and trepidation over the idea of turning that success into a career.

May 24, 2011
News

The Quantum Thief: An Excerpt

The Quantum Thief, released in the UK last year and in the US this month, is a heist story set in a future of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people communicating by sharing memories, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as massively multiplayer online role-playing game guild members.

January 11, 2011
In Real Life

Halo: Cryptum – An Excerpt

THE FORERUNNER STORY-the history of my people-has been told many times, with greater and greater idealization, until I scarcely recognise it.

November 19, 2010

Hull Zero Three – An Excerpt

Author Greg Bear isn’t just a one-time Kotaku guest columnist and a prize-winning science fiction author. He’s also the guy working on the origin story for the entire HALO universe.

November 11, 2010

Tearing The Sky – An Excerpt

The former head of the Game Developers Conference and current Electronic Arts indie headhunter just published his first science fiction novel, Tearing the Sky.

July 29, 2010

How Erotic Games Learned To Cry

In the new book Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential, our very own Kotaku Senior Contributing Editor Brian Ashcraft and co-author Shoko Ueda explore how Japanese schoolgirls have changed Japanese society.

March 27, 2010
In Real Life

The Continuing Evolution Of Gabe And Tycho

Excerpts from the book The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition. Reprinted with express permission of the author and publisher.

March 26, 2010

The Game Fiction Dilemma: Knights Of The Old Republic Vs The Sands Of Time

Excerpts from the book Expressive Processing. Reprinted with express permission of the author.

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