October 3, 2008 – 2:00 pm
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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The Blizzard Store was just updated to coincide with the new announcement of Diablo 3 so Blizzard made Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction client available for digital download. So if you already own a copy of these games and want some digital love, go over to the Blizzard Store, create an account, register your CD-keys and viola!
Both digital titles are on sale for $19.99 each or go ahead and order the battle chest for $39.99.
You can also check out the Diablo books and the Diablo titles here.
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.
Yeah I know we don’t do many book reviews here, since typically the only reading we like to do at Loot Ninja is in the text of an RPG, but this book caught my eye so I thought I would give you guys some thoughts on it. The Guinness World Records is a pretty prestigious thing to hold, so seeing a Gamer’s Edition is a welcome thing, looks like games continue to be taken serious even by the folks at Guinness.
The book not only has records for fastest time to beat certain games and high scores, but also gives you a time line of video games in general, which is very cool. The book gives you a view into the different styles of games, ranging from shooter to MMORPG and also focuses in on certain titles that have made big impacts in gaming. There are excerpts on Metroid, Halo, Gears of War and even the top Arcade games.
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November 18, 2007 – 5:49 pm
Entourage: A Lifestyle Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Hardcover) is a brand new book from the folks over at HBO that chronicles the escapades of the Entourage crew and the many episodes of funny they have brought us. Typically we won’t review books, so I won’t go into details about the book, but I couldn’t resist putting up the fact that E and Vince signed a copy for the crew at Loot Ninja wishing us luck with the site. I can’t wait to see the next season, so best of luck to those guys as well.
Here is a shot of the signatures from E and Vince! This is pretty sweet and I think this will stay on my desk from now on. What do you guys think? O and disregard the date, I forgot to set it on my digital camera, lol.
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October 24, 2007 – 7:31 pm
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???
