The Game There’s some kind of irony to be found in the fact that one of the main pursuits of L.A. Noire is to reconstruct, in exact detail, a few square miles of 1947 Los Angeles, because everything else about the game is so modern. Ahead of its time, even. Produced by Team Bondi and [...]
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How L.A. Noire Changes Everything (Just Not in the Way They Thought it Would)
Jul 08, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Video Games
As Dark as Broad Daylight
Jun 10, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Video Games
We asked all the contributors to LA Noire: The Collected Stories to tell us about their story in the collection. Read Lawrence Block’s contribution “See the Woman” in LA Noire: The Collected Stories. Available free (for a limited time) from your eTailer of choice. Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes | Kobo | Sony LA Noire? [...]
Pure storytelling, pure action
Jun 10, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Video Games
We asked all the contributors to LA Noire: The Collected Stories to tell us about their story in the collection. Read Francine Prose’s contribution “School for Murder” in LA Noire: The Collected Stories. Available free (for a limited time) from your eTailer of choice. Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes | Kobo | Sony LA Noir [...]
Betty Short and Norma Jeane Baker Alive Again
Jun 10, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Video Games
We asked all the contributors to LA Noire: The Collected Stories to tell us about their story in the collection. Read Joyce Carol Oates’ contribution “Black Dahlia & White Rose” in LA Noire: The Collected Stories. Available free (for a limited time) from your eTailer of choice. Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes | Kobo | [...]
My Own Dark Places
Jun 06, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Video Games
We asked all the contributors to LA Noire: The Collected Stories to tell us their thoughts on why Los Angeles is so associated with noir. Read Jonathan Santlofer’s story “What’s In a Name?” in LA Noire: The Collected Stories. Available free (for a limited time) from your eTailer of choice. Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes [...]
The Edge of Nothing
Jun 06, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Video Games
We asked all the contributors to LA Noire: The Collected Stories to tell us their thoughts on why Los Angeles is so associated with noir. Read Megan Abbott’s story “The Girl” in LA Noire: The Collected Stories. Available free (for a limited time) from your eTailer of choice . Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes | [...]
Now Available LA Noire: The Collected Stories
Jun 06, 2011 in eBooks, Mulholland News, Video Games
Today is the publication date for LA Noire: The Collected Stories a series of short stories some of which are based on characters and cases from the world of L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s new magnum opus of video gaming. Throughout the day, we will be posting short vignettes by the contributors to the collection. Contributors include [...]
See the Woman
May 12, 2011 in eBooks, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
The following story is included in L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories, a collaboration between Rockstar Games and Mulholland Books. Today also marks the publication date of Block’s novel A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF, which Time Magazine says “reads like it’s been jolted by factory-fresh defibrillator pads.” Red light’s on, so I guess that thing’s [...]
The top five moments of my video gaming life, or, Du côté de chez Questor
Mar 07, 2011 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News, Video Games
This isn’t a top-five-games list, although there aren’t any bad games here. Instead, it’s a list of the five best moments video games have given me. Now that I’ve started writing at length about them, this is the part that interests me most. There’s a lot of debate as to whether video games are art, [...]
