Dennis Ouyang’s immigrant parents raised him to become a gastroenterologist, and he’s devoted his life to his studies in an effort to win the approval of his emotionally distant father. His only outlet is playing video games – something his parents strongly disapprove of as a distraction from his “destiny”.
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Exclusive: Jerry Holkins on ‘Penny Arcade’ Volume Seven: ‘Be Good, Little Puppy’
Be Good, Little Puppy is the seventh volume collecting the award winning webcomic Penny Arcade, a hilarious ongoing series chronicling the misadventures and musings of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins’ alter-egos John “Gabe” Gabriel and Tycho Brah. Gabe and Tycho both navigate and participate in the gamer subculture, providing colorful commentary and laughs alike [...]
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Fanboys screenwriter and novelist Ernest Cline recently shared a few thoughts about his new book Ready Player One: a hilarious but thrilling mash-up of geeky obsessions and eighties pop culture described by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi (Old Man’s War) as “A nerdgasm…imagine Dungeons and Dragons and an 80s video arcade made hot, [...]
Read MoreHarold Goldberg has reviewed video games for fifteen years. Ernest Cline, in between stints as a short-order cook, fish gutter, plasma donor, elitist video store clerk, and tech support drone, has held geeking out as his primary occupation. Harold’s book, All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture, just came out in April. Ernest’s novel, Ready Player One, part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera and all love letter to gaming, comes out in August. Can you say synergy? We sure did.
Check out a conversation between these two gaming gurus.
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Del Rey announced today a fourth novel based on the Mass Effect science-fiction action role-playing game series from BioWare™. MASS EFFECT: DECEPTION will be written by author William C. Dietz and will release in Fall 2011.
The highly anticipated Crysis 2 video game hit stores this week and wouldn’t you know it, our official tie-in novel, CRYSIS: LEGION by Peter Watts also went on sale. This week in the DRS 50 Page Friday experience; Peter Watts tells a tale of alien invasion, NYC collapse, and humanity’s only hope – the nanosuit 2.0. Be the weapon and hit that read more button!
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Peter Watts’ Crysis: Legionis told in the format of the interrogation of a Marine, call-sign “Alcatraz”, who washed up on the shores of alien-occupied New York City in the aftermath of a botched mission. Mortally wounded, Alcatraz comes to possess a nanotech-enhanced battlesuit that patches his wounds and allows him to strike back against alien [...]
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Del Rey will publish a second novel based on Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC’s (SCEA) popular Resistance® video game franchise for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. RESISTANCE: A HOLE IN THE SKY will be written by author William C. Dietz and will release in summer 2011.
It was a big year for us around here, made especially big as we waived goodbye to our initial “Beta” site design and re-launched with the site you see now. But that wasn’t all we did. Along the way we introduced our Cage Matches, talked about writing and editing, destroyed the world and discussed how we’d survive in the aftermath and a whole lot more.
Here’s a quick run-down of some of our most popular stuff from 2010.
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Check out the new story trailer for the upcoming Homefront game.New Releases
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
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Star Wars: The Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual
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Mass Effect: Deception
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Star Wars: Shadow Games
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The Human Blend
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
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Star Wars: Riptide
Paul S. Kemp
Howard Sherman
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