You may have to wait until December to play Hitman: Absolution on your PS3, Xbox 360 or PC, but you can catch up with Agent 47 before then. It turns out Raymond Benson has penned a new tale about the assassin and Del Rey will be publishing Hitman: Damnation very soon. Hitman: Damnation is going more »

Next week on July 19, BioShock: Rapture will be released. No, this isn’t another game in the BioShock franchise. BioShock: Rapture is a new book written by John Shirley and Ken Levine. This 400+ page book details the beginning of Rapture, the underwater utopia envisioned and created by Andrew Ryan. BioShock: Rapture will delve deep into the fiction of Rapture and explain exactly what went wrong in this city under the sea.

I hope you enjoyed Lunar: Silver Star Story – The Call of the Wind, because it’s all you’re going to get. Game Arts has decided not to translate the rest of the novelization of Lunar: The Silver Star. Back on November 28, 2010 it released an English language version of the first volume of Kei Shigema’s adaptation on the Kindle Store. While it didn’t promise anything then, I’m sure a number of gamers were hoping for the best…

Wizards of the Coast‘s (WotC) latest hardcover book, Heroes of Shadow, is yet another new take for their fourth edition Dungeons and Dragons (4e D&D) role playing game (RPG).

Up until this point, characters in 4e D&D were strictly the good guys and had no serious option to play or act evil but Heroes of Shadow changes that paradigm. Players can now take on the role of traditionally evil villains including the Assassin (first introduced in 1978, but not seen much since) or Blackguard (a fallen Paladin, a common archetype to D&D), all worked out with their own special powers and features.

Homefront: The Voice of Freedom is a hard book to review. It’s mostly because there are two ways to actually judge the book. One way of judging the book is as a mode of hype for THQ’s upcoming game Homefront. The other way of judging it is as a book by itself, regardless of the fact that it is a tie-in to a soon-to-be released game.

If you look at Homefront: The Voice of Freedom as a vehicle of hype, it really gets you wanting to play the game now. However, if you look at it only as a book, it’s very weak. Click through to find out why…

Being a gamer is quite an achievement regardless of any stigma that society might put on games. We have a way to fill our unused time. We have a means to relax that some people either neglect or hold with some level of contempt. But does gaming fill any actual need that isn’t filled by society? Can gaming be used to make not only our own quality of life, at least in terms of happiness, but the world itself better? That, simply put, is the premise of Jane McGonigal’s book Reality Is Broken.

Viz has just announced a number of new books it’s picked up from Japan that it will be releasing in North America this summer, and one may just be required reading for gamers. It’s ICO: Castle of the Mist. As you probably gathered from that big, distinctive ICO in the title, it’s a novelization of the PlayStation 2 Team Ico game.

ICO: Castle of the Mist was originally written and released in 2004, three years after the game was released. It won’t be arriving here though until July 19, 2011…

Halo: Cryptum is the first book in a proposed trilogy that introduces the Forerunners at the height of their power. What starts off as a treasure hunt becomes a race to save the Forerunners from not only something they locked away once before but also from themselves.

When you look at the Empire in Warhammer, you see a large group of different armies that fight to preserve the honor of Sigmar and the lands of man. Each of the Empire Army novels covers a different group within the imperial army. One of the more interesting groups are those of the warrior priests, which, naturally, the book Warrior Priest covers.

Naughty Dog and Sony haven’t revealed any information on a third Uncharted game, but fans of Nate’s adventures will be able to get a quick fix next year. Del Rey will be publishing a novel by Christopher Golden called Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth that will have Nate globetrotting again.

Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth isn’t a canon adventure, so you won’t be missing out if you decide to skip it…