THQ goes underground with Metro 2033

THQ revealed a new first-person shooter that it has picked up the publishing rights to called Metro 2033. The game is being developed by Ukrainian studio 4A Games for Xbox 360 and PC using the company’s proprietary game engine technology which promises to deliver a “gripping, atmospheric experience.”

Metro 2033’s back story is based on the best-selling Russian novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky, who is also working closely with the studio to create the game. The Metro 2033 game has been in development at 4A Games for just over two years, and the film rights are currently in negotiation with a number of Hollywood studios.

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WAR Forged in Chaos novel in the works

Mythic Entertainment and The Black Library, a division of Games Workshop, today announced FORGED IN CHAOS, an original novel based on Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The third in a series of WAR novels, FORGED IN CHAOS will be available in all major bookstores and on the Black Library website in the fall of 2009.

FORGED IN CHAOS, by Black Library author C.L. Werner, provides an account of Destruction’s incursion into the Bastion Stair in search of the legendary Spear of Myrmidia. C. L. Werner is a veteran Black Library author, and his credits include Mathias Thulmann: Witch Hunter, the Chaos Wastes books Palace of the Plague Lord and Blood for the Blood God, Runefang and the Brunner the Bounty Hunter trilogy. Currently living in the American south-west, he continues to write stories of mayhem and madness set in the Warhammer World.

Sixth Halo Novel Revealed

In terms of its narrative, I always regarded Halo as somewhat of a controversial franchise. With so many books backing the Bungie-created universe, ironically, the game itself failed to ever keep me fully engaged into the dialogue, or indeed, the finer points of the plot. Or, let me put it this way: I like playing the game, but half the time I have absolutely no clue what the heck is going on.

So would a sixth Halo novel, titled The Cole Protocol, do anything for me? I doubt it.

You, on the other hand, you are word-on-paper aficionado and a game novel buff. You are very excited at the moment.

Written by Tobias S. Buckell, whose previous work includes Crystal Rain and the 2007 Nebula Award nominee Ragamuffin, Halo: The Cole Protocol “will unveil the location of the Spartan Gray Team and take readers into an unexplored conflict of the Human-Covenant War.”