Melville House Books

video games

• Moby-Dick, the card game

  Moby-Dick, the BBC historical drama; Moby-Dick, the interactive sing-along theatrical production; Moby-Dick, the beer; Moby-Dick, the felted version? Chalk up one more adaption for Herman Melville’s novel: Moby-Dick, the card… Read more »

• ‘Leader of the 99%’ stars in video game

  You might have missed this: Occupy is now video-game fodder. Software developer Treyarch has announced that the villain of its forthcoming game, Black Ops 2, is Raul Menendez, the imagined… Read more »

• Random House getting into video games

  For a while I’ve been suggesting that publishers looking to explore the full potential of enhanced e-books would do well to look to the world of video games for lessons.… 6 / Read more »

• 8-bit Gatsby beats upcoming 3D film hands down

  Sorry, Leo, it’s true. How could this not be better than the supposed 3D monstrosity Baz Lurhmann is scheduled to bring us some time next year? (I know, that’s unfair,… Read more »

• The writers who would be gamers

  The other day a coworker, studiously engaged in research on the internet, just happened to come across this rather addictive point-and-click flash-based video game inspired by Moby Dick (be prepared… 2 / Read more »

• So much more than a book

  A recent article about Halloween movies by Dianna Dilworth in eBookNewser got me thinking about a subject we talk about on a pretty regular basis at MobyLives: movies based on… 6 / Read more »

• Power up

  Last week, we mentioned the ruckus going on with e-books for kids and figured that kids books would probably utilize the inherent qualities of iPads and Android tablets better than… Read more »