The Dragon’s Secret by Lyra Trice Solis is the first Adventure Quest book based on the online RPG series of the same name. We follow the story of John Black, a young man who accidentally discovers he’s a light mage after a local bully pushes him too far. Unfortunately, he can’t quite control his powers. So his family sends him to live with a local sorcerer who trains him to read and control his abilities…

The most recent release of the three Bourne movies – The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum – marks Universal Home Entertainment’s foray into the wonderful world of the flipper disc. These two-in-one, Blu-ray-DVD combo discs mean you can get the movie and enjoy it now, even if you don’t yet have a PS3 or Blu-ray player (assuming, of course, you have abandoned VHS and embraced DVDs).

After a pretty lackluster literary performance, WAR seems to have hit a pleasing note in terms of the literature backing it up. Dark Storm Gathering, sequel to Empire in Chaos, made a lot of really interesting fixes that made the story a lot more compelling. Also, as an added gift, it’s written in a way where you don’t lose much if you pick this up without reading Empire in Chaos.

Gears of War 2 proved that sometimes, the second time around can indeed be better than the first.

With millions of copies already sold and a sure bet for Game of the Year Nominations all-around, this weekend at Comic Con New York (February 7, 2009), Gears of War 2 writer Joshua Ortega stated to a room full of fans that they could expect more in the next ten years from the series, including a possible prequel that deals with the Emergence Day (E-Day) event that was the starting point of the war between the Human race and the Locust.

Specifically, Ortega said…

I’m sick and tired of people saying that video games are a waste of time and that people are unintelligent for playing them. It’s just not true. The only people who say that are people who have never played a game and don’t realize what really goes into it. I think games are very much educational and should not be shunned.

First, playing video games involves a lot of thought and strategy. Each game has a completely different set of rules that you have to learn and follow. Now you can either sit and read the instruction booklet or you could…

One of the most renowned first-person shooters also has a fairly strong line of books to give it a back-story. The book count is currently at five novels with four specifically focusing on the events of original conception of the Doom.

Worlds on Fire covers the events of Doom 3 following Lieutenant John Kane. Kane saves marines from what would otherwise be a…