It’s hard to slip anything by dedicated Mass Effect fans on the internet. Once they got a chance to look through the Mass Effect: Deception novel, a wave of disappointment soon followed. There are apparently some factual errors in the novel that are too large to ignore. As a result, Mass Effect fans have spoken out against 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.

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…

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…

There is another chapter of the Resistance series that we haven’t experienced. This new chapter isn’t one we have, or will be able to play in a game. Everything will be told in a novel entitled Resistance: A Hole in the Sky. The novel will go on sale this summer, presumably before or around the same time Resistance 3 releases on September 6, 2011.

THQ is all about transmedia opportunities these days. It allows the company to reach a broader audience while expanding the fiction of its franchises. Red Faction Armageddon, Saint’s Row 3, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw and Homefront are all privy to this treatment. In its latest offering, THQ and Random House Publishing Group have announced a novel that is based in the same world as THQ’s upcoming game Homefront.

I have in my hands the thickest book (albeit a galley version) I have ever seen about video games. This weighty behemoth promises, as you can gather from the title, a big and pretty list of 1001 games that everyone needs to play.

This is a book that will take at least an hour just to thumb through. For many, it’s worth it simply for the nostalgic trip. For others it may be an overwhelming collection of every game name you can possibly recall. In any case, it’s certainly fun to look through…

For the first time since Tales of Heresy, we are delving into a book of short stories that are following the legions of the Adeptus Astartes (better known as the Space Marines).

Space Marines are inherently fun. After all, they’re living walls of muscle and armor. They excel at causing complete death, destruction and mayhem on a battlefield and that’s before any of the really big guns (like Dreadnoughts) come into play.

However, there are things that make them harder to write about.

Author Graham McNeill has just done something pretty special for Games Workshop and the Black Library

On March 15, 2010, the Black Library blog reported that A Thousand Sons, by McNeill, hit number 22 on the New York Times Bestsellers list.

This is the first Black Library – as well as a Horus Heresy - novel to make it on the list.

The Horus Heresy yields yet another installment, this time bringing in a legion only referred to and making a brief cameo in any of the earlier books, The Thousand Sons. It also shows a bit of a change in pace of the books.