Two Dante’s Inferno stories back to back here on Loot Ninja. In case you want to get the whole back story on what happened to Dante but don’t want to read the entire The Divine Comedy, EA and Visceral Games have teamed up with Random House Publishing Group to distribute only Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, of which the game is based.
While I think it’s great that EA is encouraging gamers to check out one of the great pieces of historical literature, slapping the game art and fonts on the book cover just seems out of place to me. Sure, it fits the game, but it’s a bit outlandish with Alighieri’s work. That’s my two cents.
If you haven’t read The Divine Comedy in school or for leisure, it might be worth grabbing yourself a copy of Inferno when it’s released on January 19th.
As of yesterday, you can pick up a shiny new copy of the Guinness Book of World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition. For $14.99, you can flip through the pages of all the people that spend entirely too much playing video games. Our friends in the UK can pick up the “Video Game Bible” on January 21st for 15 pounds.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not buying this one. I don’t need to know who has the most kills in a Call of Duty game or who has the highest score in Centipede. The records change so fast anyway that the whole book will probably be out of date by mid February.
My suggestion: save your $15 and buy PixelJunk Shooter and a Happy Meal.
What is the only thing better than a Halo novel? 3 Halo novels. Sci Fi author Greg Bear will be writing the first Forerunner book in the Haloverse. Not much is known about the race and without spoiling the lore from previous books, this will finally bring all the reasons of the mysterious Covenant religion to the forefront. The first novel is due out 2010, which I will be pre-ordering as soon as I can.
Somehow with all of this holiday excitement I forgot to remind everyone that yesterday was the release of the most recent Halo novel Halo: The Cole Protocol. It is the sixth book in the long running series of novels, this one being written by newcomer Tobias S. Buckell. The book centers around the story of the Spartan II Gray Team and it also gives a more in-depth perspective of the Jackal race, something most fans will appreciate since the previous novels have covered pretty much every other Covenant species.
Eric Nylund had previously showed interest in writing this novel but the task ended up going to Tobias S. Buckell, a relative unknown. Even if you are only a moderate Halo fan I recommend giving the novels a shot. You can even pick up the first three novels in the series as a box set for an extremely fair price at Amazon. Give your eyes a break from all of those screens scattered around your home and read a book.
The latest novel in the phenomenal Halo series is due out November 25. The book, titled Cole Protocol, which follow the invasion of the Covenant that was described in Contact Harvest. For those of you outside of the Halo canon, the Cole Protocol refers to the instructions any UNSC ship must follow when returning to Earth. The Covenant can never know where the home planet is and if they do, we are in deep shit. The find it in Halo 3, but whatever. Anyhow, the cover looks great and I am looking forward to see what the new author hear does. Joseph Staten was amazing and I hope the author here does the story justice.
This one got me a bit excited. I’m a huge fan of gaming and sci-fi related books and have read all the Halo novels. It pleases me to hear that Gears of War will be getting a trilogy set of books in the near future. The first book, written by Karen Traviss, will go on sale October 28th, 2008.
In GEARS OF WAR: THE BATTLE OF ASPHO FIELDS, the last human stronghold on Sera braces itself for another onslaught from the Locust Horde, as ghosts come back to haunt Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago. For Marcus — decorated war hero, convicted traitor — the return of an old comrade threatens to dredge up an agonizing secret he’s sworn to keep. As the beleaguered soldiers of the Coalition of Ordered Governments take a last stand to save humankind from extermination, the harrowing decisions made at Aspho Fields have to be relived and made again. Marcus and Dom can take anything the Locust Horde throws at them — but will their friendship survive the truth about Dom’s brother Carlos?
Sounds good to me. I’m sure I’ll pick this one up to check out while I’m playing Gears of War 2 this Fall.
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I am a huge fan of the Halo novels and have read and own every one. The next book, titled “The Cole Protocol“, will take place after Contact Harvest. For those of you who do not know, The Cole Protocol is a rule for every soldier and pilot in the UNSC. The protocol states that the Covenant can never know the location of Earth at any cost. You are forbidden to execute any slipspace jumps while they are present that could lead to the home world of the human race. You must jump from place to place so that you are never followed. If this means your death, than that’s tough shit. Very excited for this. Will have a release date for you soon as we get it.
This may not be groundbreaking news, but I just realized and figured a reminder would be in order. The 5th OFFICIAL book in the Halo series, Contact Harvest will be released Tuesday, October 30th. Even though Eric Nylund is not the author here, I look forward to reading this. I have read the other four(Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx), this will certainly be a nice addition because it is a prequel. Here is a little backcover preview for you:
This is how it began…
It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground–strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.
But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest’s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest…a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.
Don’t expect any Master Chief or Spartans. He was not born yet and they were not invented yet, but this does tell how this conflict began. Avery Johnson is a bad ass by the way. Looks a little like the Carl Weathers character from Predator doesn’t it???
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