A PASSION FOR ALL THINGS GAMES
Finish It Almost one year ago, Mr. Brett Weiss and Schiffer Publishing released The SNES Omnibus: The Super Nintendo and Its Games, Vol. 1 (A-M), an impressive coffee table book that documents the first half of the SNES library in painstaking detail. Finishing the job, SNES Omnibus Vol. 2 (N-Z) is now available and is […]
A SNES Bible In 2014, author Brett Weiss wrote The 100 Greatest Console Video Games 1977-1987 published by Schiffer Publishing (read my full review here). No easy task, narrowing down the best games of that decade is not only daunting but also proved informative and insightful. Now, four year later, Brett Weiss released The SNES […]
In celebration of a console that brought wonder into the lives of so many, and a brand that reshaped the whole entertainment industry, the authors and Geeks-Line retrace Sony’s incredible journey. Read about the creation of the company following World War II, to the machine’s retirement in the early 2000s. Featuring 26 interviews with important […]
An American Tale Chris Kohler’s book on Final Fantasy V is a snapshot into the gaming passion of a teenage boy growing up in America in the 1990s. I’d like to share a quote found on the beginning pages of this latest publication by Boss Fight Books. “Poring over more issues of magazines like Electronic […]
VIZ Media will delight POKÉMON fans with a pair of notable upcoming releases that includes the publication of THE POKÉMON COOKBOOK: EASY & FUN RECIPES and POKÉMON X•Y POCKET COMICS, the third volume in the series. Both new books will debut on December 6th. Created by Maki Kudo, THE POKÉMON COOKBOOK: EASY & FUN RECIPES […]
Falling Into Place Tetris. Most people have probably played this game at some point in their life. Whether it was on an internet connected PC, a pea-green colored handheld system, a graphing calculator, an illegal version on an 8-bit system, the side of a building, or even on a t-shirt, Tetris is a phenomenon known […]
Tetris the Games People Play by Box Brown is a new book that launches in October 2016 about how Tetris leaked its way out of Russia with some crazy business deals. The last time a book went into great detail about how Tetris came to be was in 1993 with David Sheff’s Game Over: Press […]
VIZ Media is set to deliver a brand new manga action inspired by Capcom’s Monster Hunter. MONSTER HUNTER: FLASH HUNTER is a manga (graphic novel) series written by Keiichi Hikami, with artwork by Shin Yamamoto, and is set to launch in print on April 12th. The fantasy action series is rated ‘T’ for Teens and […]
Sandbox Interactive, the developer of cross-platform medieval MMORPG, Albion Online, announced that the fantasy book based on the lore of their sandbox game, entitled ‘Landfall’, is now available in paperback and ebook for $10.99 and $6.99, respectively. Written by Peter Newman, the acclaimed English author of “The Vagrant” series, ‘Landfall’ not only reveals the story […]
Tor Books and Remedy Entertainment are excited to announce the forthcoming April 5, 2016 publication of Quantum Break: Zero State by author, game writer and narrative designer Cam Rogers. From Remedy Entertainment, the masters of cinematic action games such as Max Payne and Alan Wake, comes a gripping novelization of this time-amplified suspenseful blockbuster. The […]
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