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The Quantum Thief: An Excerpt
How Virtual Cog-Driven Machines Made Game Of Thrones Awesome
Inspired by ancient self-operating machines and driven by clever computer animation, the opening credits for HBO’s Game of Thrones is packed with easter eggs and miniature marvels.
Random House Wants To Write Video Game Stories
The Random House Publishing Group is taking its storytelling expertise “one step further”, forming a group dedicated to crafting original story content for video games and collaborating with developers on existing IP. like Stardock’s Elemental: War of Magic.
Star Trek Online Takes Us To The Year 2383
Cryptic continues to expound on the future history of Star Trek Online, updating their game time line with the year 2383, in which the Romulans continue to fall apart and the Klingons get increasingly pissed.
2008 Interactive Fiction Competition Winners Announced
For the last 14 years the denizens of the USENET group rec.arts.int-fiction have been keeping the Text Adventure flag flying with hundreds of new games and an annual competition to find the best of the year’s crop. 2008 has seen 35 new entries with some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures/interactive fiction.
