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Books EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Penguin teams with Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed novel 3 If playing and watching Assassin's Creed isn't enough for you, Ubisoft and Penguin Books have announced that it will be publishing a book based on the upcoming sequel.  Assassin's Creed Rena... Read the first few pages of the Elder Scrolls novel 19 Publisher Random House has teased book fans with an excerpt from the upcoming Elder Scrolls novel, The Infernal City. If you're undecided on the book, written by Greg Keyes, then perhaps the open... Pet Sematary becomes an iPhone game, hilarity ensues 19 In what is surely the biggest WTF moment of the day, Paramount Digital Entertainment decided adapting Pet Sematary into an iPhone game was a smart move. I'm still trying to figure out whether to ... The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City coming November 24 26 Awesome! When it was announced that an Elder Scrolls book was coming, I was happy. I quite like me a good fantasy novel, and I love the world of Tamriel. It has now been revealed that The Elder S... A Final Fantasy XIII book is on the way 10 Japan gets Final Fantasy XIII on December 17th, and I'll be damned if my toes don't curl with jealousy just thinking about it. After all, it'll surely be quite a while since I get to play it, and... Dragon Age: The Calling announced as new prequel book 7 We'd already heard that yet another prequel novel was coming for BioWare's upcoming RPG Dragon Age: Origins, and today The Calling has officially been announced. The book continues the plot of Th... Phoenix Wright getting an UDON art book, we've no objection 14 Capcom is once again giving one of its franchises the art book treatment. Previous, Street Fighter and Darkstalkers have had art books courtesy of UDON, and now everyone's favorite impossibly-hai... I want to go to Where the Wild Things Are 20 Where the Wild Things Are is one of my favorite books from when I was a child. The character of Max speaks to me, as I was always something of the willful sort, and I have a bunch of cool Wild Th... Even more Halo novels are on the way 16 A few months back, Tor Books announced a new trilogy in the Halo universe that would be set on the ancient Forerunner race. You know, the race that killed themselves off with the Halos after they... McSweeney's and Samus Aran: The Lesbian Story Now Told 23 For the pretentious hipsters out there earning a BA in 17th Century Liturgical Poetry (John Donne ftw!), McSweeney's is a satirical core of Post-Post Modern (PoPoMo) twentysomething living. Sure,... Chun Li and Mai have a boob fight in Street Fighter art book 47 If you love Street Fighter and have a thing for art, then you'll really want to get your mucky hands on SF20: The Art of Street Fighter. The book's being put together by Udon (the chaps behind th... Paul Robertson + Udon + Darkstalkers = Amazing 14 A few months ago on his blog, animator and artist Paul Robertson -- of "Pirate Babys Cabana Street Fight 2006" and "Kings of Power 4 Billion %" fame -- mentioned that he was c... Dante's dissonance and the divide between games and books 43 As someone who cares deeply about literature and its legacy, I have been keeping tabs on Visceral Games' upcoming Dante's Inferno. As someone who also has a very public forum to express his ideas... God of War novels announced ... seriously 18 I'm surprised that most God of War fans even know what books are, but if anything is going to get them to read, it will be a novel starring everyone's favorite marzipan-colored, mass-murdering ps... Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant announced, hits July 28 10 Books. These ancient bound things with text are more expensive than a map pack and heavier than a Gold Lancer download card. They don’t give their owners rumble feedback and they certainly ... Well Played 1.0 is free, the best videogame book I've read 23 I would have posted about this earlier, but I read slower than Helen Keller when she's wearing gloves. Well Played 1.0 is an anthology book of videogame critique, and probably one of the most int... E3 09: Woman's Murder Club debut trailer 12 So there's this game called Woman's Murder Club.  Aside from this title being based on a James Patterson something or other that I've never ever heard of, the trailer is now ready for watchi... BioShock book to be published this fall 20 Fantasy and game-related book publisher Tor Books is set to publish a BioShock book this fall, according to a page in the publisher’s latest catalogue.Scant details are scant, but Gamasutra... The Elder Scrolls novels coming from publisher Del Ray 12 Bethesda Softworks' insanely popular game franchise The Elder Scrolls will join the book club. Del Ray (part of the Random House publishing group) will publish two novels based on the world and l... New Halo book trilogy focuses on the Forerunners 12 I love the Halo series. The Halo universe has a deep and rich story to it, but you wouldn't know that as the games do a horrible job at giving players a decent story. You have to read the first f... BioShock Developer's Edition artbook shows up at Take Two store 7 I have the original BioShock artbook, and while it is ok, it pales next to something like the 288 page Okami artbook that proudly adorns my coffeetable. With a game as rich as BioShock, I wanted ... Delicious Mudokons for all: The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants art book 6 Ballistic Publishing (the same people that published 'Massive Black', the awesome art book that was featured on Art Attack Friday last week) is bringing back one of their most successful art book... Get learned: Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers 6 You know those crane games they have inside movie theaters and sports bars in North America? The ones with the seemingly impossible-to-get Batman stuffed toys? They're huge in Japanese arcades. W... DS Book Collection allowing you to be nerdier than ever before this Boxing Day 27 If you felt that being a hardcore gamer just isn't uncool enough these days (hell, everyone has a DS now), then perhaps you'll be looking to raise  the nerd stakes considerably by acquiring ... An easy guide for easy stuff: Wii for Dummies 16 So you know how, to us, the Wii seems like the simplest console ever made? Well, to some people, it isn't (probably because they haven't been handling controllers of all shapes and sizes for the ... Shocker: academic thinks videogames make people dumb 21 GamePolitics was cool enough to introduce the world to Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein. In an interview with Canada, Bauerline talks about his ridiculously largely titled book The Dumbe... Weekend Reading: Grand Theft Childhood 17 While I'm certainly not the first person here on Destructoid to talk about Grand Theft Childhood, it's mostly been relegated to highlights of others' discussions or a mention on Podtoid. As per u... Philip K. Dick novels get the gaming treatment 16 Today, The Guardian reports that The Halcyon Company -- a media company unheard of in the gaming world -- has obtained the right of first option to Philip K. Dick's works and plans to adapt two o... Just for the Beck of it: CNN calls games bloggers 'losers' 135  Glenn Beck has clearly gotten a taste for blood, as he continues his temporary crusade against Grand Theft Auto -- and it WILL be temporary, as he'll get bored of it when his viewers do. He... Geraldo Beedog's new book now available in the FOXTOID store for $29.95 29 In our continued effort to bring you HARD-HITTING, unbiased journalism, FOXTOID recommends the new book by Geraldo Beedog: Surely you would never spy me doing that bad thing you just did. Geraldo... Del Rey is looking to satiate your Star Wars: Force Unleashed hunger pangs 12 While we're chomping at the bit for the game to arrive this April, Star Wars: Force Unleashed fans will be able to make do with a little background reading instead, courtesy of Del Rey publishing... Sci-fi fans rejoice! Ender's Game confirmed in the works 37 Way back in June 2007 (in internet time, that's actually three lifetimes,) I wrote about some juicy tidbits that science fiction writer Orson Scott Card mentioned in regards to a possible game ba... jPod: the best gaming show you aren't watching 45 I wish all my "there's nothing good on TV" moments ended with finding a new and amazing TV show to watch, instead of my usual giving up and watching another Simpsons episode that you've... Smash Bros Brawl's Japanese Instruction Booklet hits the Internet? 46 Well, we had to expect that this to would happen. Super Smash Bros Brawl, now set for release in Japan on Jan. 31st, has suffered it's first leak of physical evidence of proving it's actual, fact... A good bedtime story for the kids: Gears of War prequel book announced 35 If you're reading this, chances are that you can understand it. So we've established that you can read, but do you really want to if you don't have to? Here's a good reason to crack a book: Gears... Mario voice actor writing autobiography, loves to give the 'thumbs up' 37 Actor Charles Martinet, the man behind the voice of Mario, has revealed that he's working on an autobiography. The book, which Marninet hopes to have ready for a 2008 release, will focus on his t... Halo novel becomes NYT best seller, just like my novel Jurassic Park 22 There's been a lot of petty sniping towards Halo from both the anti-Microsoft crowd and the contrarian, anti-mainstream crowd ever since the pre-release hype for Halo 3 began building up, but abs... Videogames and Art: Destructoid hits the book launch and seminar 13 The life of a games journalist is an exciting one. We get to attend geek conventions and musical extravaganzas, as well as get to grips with upcoming videogames. Sometimes though, we have to beco... New book says "Games are good for you" 14 Games don't make us kill, maim or rape, or mentally retard us into small lumps of drooling pus. We all know that. But a new book by software developer Mark Prensky is rallying to our cause one fu... Do want: The Art of Midway: Before Pixels and Polygons art book released 14 I live for these art books, so imagine my surprise when Midway shuffled a press release my way about The Art of Midway: Before Pixels and Polygons. Published by Design Studio Press, the 160 page ... The PlayStation 3 is a failure ... not my words! 64 Okay, many editors in the world of videogame journalism, myself included, have made fun of Sony and its handling of the PS3. As harsh as we may be, one thing we tend not to do is go as far as to ... Codemasters wants its own Tom Clancy in Clive Barker 8 When Codemasters teamed up with Clive Barker to bring us Jericho, the response seemed somewhat mixed, but having played the game myself, I can confirm that it's got all the tools to be a most ste... Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy announced, Matt Damon unimpressed 11 Not content with Tom Clancy getting all of the action, Sierra Entertainment and Ludlum Entertainment are teaming up to release  Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy for the PlayStation ... Orson Scott Card tantalizes with talk of future games from Ender saga 32 For those of you that don't know, Orson Scott Card is a prolific science fiction writer responsible for the Nebula award winning Ender's Game series. For those of you who do know, you'... Gears of War, now in book flavor 8 Very much like a Locust Corpser, gossip burrows under the surface of the internet with talk of both a novel and a comic based on Epic's highly applauded chainsawgasm, Gears of War. So far, an... Assassin's Creed novel series in the works 13 Ubisoft Montreal seem awful confident in their upcoming title Assassin's Creed. The game won't hit the street until August and there's already talk of a movie, for crying out loud. So... Mass Effect novels coming soon; please press B to turn page 20 Mass Effect, Bioware's latest mega-RPG, is set to blow the pants off of every Xbox 360 unfortunate enough to have been stuffed into a pair of pants. Of course, gamers will have to wait until ...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! Dive in! meetup+play for a chance to win a PC Dtoid Twitter    Got news?   tips@destructoid.com Reviews & Previews Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles review Left 4 Dead 2 review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex review Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! review EyePet review more reviews Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks Monster Hunter Tri Hooking onto, under and above Just Cause 2 PS3's 256-player MAG Rooms The Main Building more previews - The Dtoid Army is 50693 strong - Showing Cblogs with 3+ faps   show all Call for entries: do the wrong thing New to Dtoid? 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