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Apple patent turns in-game choices into a customized comic book
In 2009, Apple filed a patent to transfer players' unique video game story paths, choices and customized characters to book form, available automatically after the game was finished as an e-book, book or graphic novel. The USPTO granted Apple that patent today and made it public, complete with ...
UK publisher building Minecraft cottage industry
Minecraft continues to prove its status as a genuine cultural phenomenon, with UK children's publisher Egmont announcing plans to publish four handbooks, two other books, and a magazine, all about that one game. Planned for release in Europe this September, the range includes books focused on ...
Halo: Silentium concludes Greg Bear's Forerunner trilogy in March 2013
Originally slated for January 2013, the third installment in Greg Bear's series of Halo novels will now drop in March 2013, Tor Books has announced. Entitled Halo: Silentium, the novel wraps up Bear's Forerunner trilogy, which appropriately details the story of the Forerunners, the mysterious, ...
Minecraft dev inks deal with Egmont Publishing for books, magazines
Minecraft developer Mojang has a deal with UK's Egmont Publishing to create children's books and magazines in territories excluding the US, TechCrunch reports. A spokesperson can't confirm which products exactly will be borne of the deal, but they will include "a range" of items and will launch ...
Dead Space: Catalyst prequel novel available this autumn
Traversing transmedia opportunities, Tor Books and EA are hooking up on a second Dead Space novel. Dead Space: Catalyst, written by B.K. Evenson, follows the Black Marker threat prior to the events of Dead Space. According to the PR, Catalyst takes place "three hundred years in the future," or two ...
Lawsuit alleging copyright infringement in Assassin's Creed dropped, Gametrailers settles
Novelist John Beiswenger has dropped the lawsuit against Ubisoft, in which he alleged the Assassin's Creed universe stole ideas from one of his books, Link. Gametrailers, whom Beiswenger sued in the same case, settled with the author on May 18 under undisclosed terms. Beiswenger voluntarily ...
Walden the video game is funded by the NEA, is hypocritical
If your high school English teacher had assigned you to play the game Walden instead of reading Thoreau's writings on living deliberately with nature, Spark Notes may not have evolved into such a booming industry. USC's plan to put abridged study guides out of business, a video game based on ...
Kickstart a gaming history book, have dinner with Molyneux (and more)
Rusel DeMaria's High Score: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games is one of the most seemingly ubiquitous volumes in the "canon" of writing about games -- you've definitely seen that cover before, right? Well, it's not as ubiquitous as we thought. It's out of print. DeMaria is working with a ...
Old Nintendo picture book highlights young Miyamoto, other Mario vets
When Chris Covell went to a "local library" recently -- local for him being "in Japan" -- he didn't grab just any book. Instead, he grabbed a picture book made for children named "The Stars of Famicom Games: How Video Games Are Made," wherein legendary Japanese developers like Shigeru Miyamoto, ...
Stay awhile and read! Diablo 3: Book of Cain announced
You might have been laboring under the misapprehension that the Diablo series is only about clicking monsters and watching them die. The truth is it's only mostly about that, as revealed by the newly announced book, Diablo III: Book of Cain. The book tells the story of Sanctuary – the ...
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Super Joystiq Podcast 050: Magic 2014, Ace Patrol, Gran Turismo 6, Nvidia Shield
Posted on May 17th 2013 12:00PM