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Upcoming VR adventure game Skydance's Behemoth will receive a special graphic novel expansion. The recently announced collaboration with author Matt Forbeck brings new immersive lore to the game's canon. The graphic novel adds depth to the Forsaken Lands, Behemoths, & characters pre-game.

Skydances Behemoth is a new fantasy adventure title that pushes the limits of the latest generation of VR technology. The title comes from developer Skydance Interactive, which previously produced the well-received The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners series. This time, instead of taking down walkers, players will face Behemoths - large monsters that roam the Forsaken Lands, scaling the giant beasts in first person.

The game draws inspiration from games like Shadow of the Colossus and other monster fighting adventures while also cultivating its own identity - an identity which the team recently announced will be further cultivated by a special graphic novel companion. Since Behemoth drops players right into...

With the annual Scribe Awards, the Iamtw celebrates and honors excellence in the field of writing tie-in fiction for media franchises. These works include novels, short stories, audio dramas, and graphic novels tied to licenses of movies and TV shows, as well as video games, comics, songs, and even book series. The licenses run the gamut from James Bond to Jessica Fletcher, from Star Wars to Star Trek, to everything in the Marvel and DC universes, and much more.

We are thrilled and privileged to announce the nominees for the 2024 Scribe Awards. The winners will be named at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday July 26 during the Scribe Awards and Media Tie-In Panel in Room 32Ab at 2pm Pacific time.

Adapted Novel – General or Speculative

Assassin’s Creed: Daughter of No One by Maria Lewis

Marvel’s Secret Invasion by Paul Cornell

Marvel’s Wastelanders: Star-Lord by Sarah Cawkwell

Ultraman by...

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (Iamtw) recognizes the wide range of authors who work on media tie-ins. Often overlooked, these writers craft exciting tales using beloved characters and settings of franchises including the likes of Mike Hammer, Firefly, Murder She Wrote, James Bond, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Wars, Doctor Who, and Star Trek. These stories can be original adventures, or adaptations of movies or television episodes. They include all genres and a wide range of lengths and formats.

To recognize the accomplishments of the unsung authors in this particular field, the Iamtw sponsors the annual Scribe Awards. This year’s awards have six categories to highlight excellence in Novels, Short Stories, Audio Dramas, Young Adult/Middle Grade works, and Graphic Novels.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Audio Drama:

The Enemy of My Enemy by Tracey Ann Baines

He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not by Carrie Thompson...

“Halo: Bad Blood” is the latest original full-length novel to join the “Halo” expanded universe, and it’s available to purchase now. Written by bestselling author and game designer Matt Forbeck, it continues the storyline from “Halo 5: Guardians.”

Given that it’s going to be quite some time before we hear anything about the recently-announced “Halo Infinite,” this novel should help tie up some loose ends and offer a bit more insight into the world of “Halo” for fans. There are a purported two years that take place between “Halo 5: Guardians” and “Infinite,” after all. What ended up happening during that time?

The narrative follows the Spartans from Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris as they struggle to remain one step ahead of the rampant artificial intelligence Cortana. Spartan Edward Buck is the focal point of the narrative, taking on a secret mission to help reclaim some ground after Cortana’s devious advances.

With a new Alien movie coming out this May and the second annual Alien Day taking place on April 26th, it's a great time to be a Xenomorph fan, and Titan Books is giving Facehugger fanatics two more big reasons to celebrate this spring with their new anthology Aliens: Bug Hunt and Alien: The Coloring Book, and we've been provided with three copies of each book to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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(1) copy of Aliens: Bug Hunt (1) copy of Alien: The Coloring Book

How to Enter: We're giving Daily Dead readers multiple chances to enter and win:

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Titan Books will place readers within the intense ranks of the Colonial Marines next year with their new anthology Aliens: Bug Hunt. Edited by renowned novelist Jonathan Maberry (who is also editing the Night of the Living Dead anthology with George A. Romero), Aliens: Bug Hunt will feature 18 new stories from a wide range of talented authors, including Brian Keene (The Complex), Tim Lebbon (Alien: Invasion), Yvonne Navarro (Afterage), Christopher Golden (Alien: River of Pain), and more.

Aliens: Bug Hunt will be released sometime next year. It’s not yet known if or how often familiar faces from Aliens or other characters from the Alien franchise will appear in the stories (although Maberry revealed the below photo with his official announcement), but we’ll keep Daily Dead readers updated on further details. While the anthology’s cover art has not yet been revealed, we do have Maberry’s announcement with...

What with today being Independence Day, we thought we'd take a moment to pass on some good news about an independent film that has landed exclusive theatrical distribution with Muvico - Reactor 88 Studios' horror comedy InSpectres.

The film will screen exclusively at Muvico locations, beginning with the world premiere on September 6th, 2013, in Rosemont, Illinois.

InSpectres' journey to the big screen has been a long one. Development began in late 2009 with all principal photography completed by October 2010. It was shot in the Midwest, mostly in the Chicagoland area where it will premiere. Based on the role-playing game by creator Jared A. Sorensen, the script was written by award-winning novelist and game designer Matt Forbeck and game designer J.A. Dohm. Stars of the film include Lucas Thompson, Brian Barber, Mike Mauloff, and Melinda Ryba. InSpectres is the feature debut for director Darren Orange, joined by Director of Photography Robert P.

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What happens when mystery, sorcery, different planes of existence, comic books, and trading card gaming collide? A brand-new Magic: The Gathering® miniseries, of course!

Continuing the blockbuster success of the eponymous first series, writer Matt Forbeck and artist Martín Cóccolo bring further adventures of Planeswalker Dack Fayden in Magic: The Gathering: The Spell Thief! “Dack is back!” says series writer Matt Forbeck. “And I’m thrilled that [series artist] Martin Cóccolo and I get to tell more of his story. He’s hot on the trail of Sifa Grent, the woman who destroyed his hometown, and it’s only a matter of time before the Multiverse’s greatest thief tracks her down—if he survives that long.” Forbeck laughs. “Poor Dack. He’s got a hell of a path ahead of him, one that leads through all sorts of different planes and runs him smack into a Planeswalker or two...

I don’t usually read historical fiction or horror. So when an advanced copy of Carpathia by Matt Forbeck landed on my kindle, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But by the next morning, after barely sleeping a wink, I can honestly say I am now a fan of both historical fiction and horror, as long as Matt Forbeck is the author.

As the Titanic sinks into the icy depths of the ocean, desperate survivors are rescued by the ship Carpathia. The problem is, stowed away on Carpathia is a group of blood-sucking vampires! Stuck on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic, things go from bad to horrific for the harrowed survivors. But this isn’t just a one-dimensional tale about vampires versus humans. A power struggle builds within the vampire ranks between the wise Dushko and an upstart blood thirsty Brody over when dinner should be...

Matt Forbeck, author of Amortals, Vegas Knights, and The Mutant Chronicles novelization, the Magic: The Gathering comic for Idw, and creator of the Brave New World RPG (with concepts that predated Marvel’s Civil War by years), is setting an ambitious goal for himself, and is asking for you to help torture him:

I’d like to write a dozen novels in 2012, and I want you to dare me to do it.

This is the first part of my 12 for ’12 project, a year-long challenge in which I plan to write a novel every month in 2012.

It may not be as insane as it sounds. By novel, I mean a work of fiction that’s at least 50,000 words, a bit shorter than most my novels, which tend toward 80,000 words. The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards each define a novel as anything over 40,000 words, but I want to be a bit more ambitious.

Star Wars vs. Star Trek

Could the Empire kick the Federation's Ass?

... and other galaxy-shaking enigmas

Paperback | Kindle

By Matt Forbeck

Adams Media

Release Date: May 18, 2011

I was really curious going into this book, mostly about how someone could write an unbiased novel on which school of sci-fi was better. As it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Star Wars vs. Star Trek isn't a novel at all. Instead, author Matt Forbeck created what I consider to be a very nicely divided series of comparisons. Think of it as a sort of Celebrity Deathmatch in book form. I laughed, I cried, I rejoiced.

I'm a Star Wars fan, hands down. I waited in line in 1977 to see the first one and repeated that for every single movie thereafter (even the prequels). Heck, I even have a Stormtrooper tattoo and commonly quote Yoda. I always wanted to be Boba Fett growing up,...

Magic: The Gathering has been announced by Idw Publishing. The four-issue miniseries is based on the trading card game of the same name, and is being produced in conjunction with publisher Wizards of the Coast. Matt Forbeck, whose previous credits include The Lord of the Rings RPG and The Marvel Encyclopaedia, is writing the series for Idw. Martin Coccolo will shoulder art duties. Issues of Magic: The Gathering (more)...

Welcome back to our weekly look at the new podcasts available at our “partners in podcast crime” the GeekCast Radio Network. Each week we bring you the highlights from Gcrn, with descriptions and links to each and every episode.

All Things Transformers Version 2.0 Episode 12: Prime Triple Shot

Steve and Mike discuss a little Tf News and a Triple Shot of Tf Prime Episodes. Hang on to your Prime Jets! Listen Now.

GeekCast Radio Episode 27: Most Hated TV Shows In The Last 30 Years

In the 27th episode of GeekCast Radio join OptimusSolo and TFG1Mike as they express their outright hatred of certain TV series. We talk about shows from our lifetime 1980-2011. Please keep in mind that these are just Mike and Kevin’s opinions. Listen Now.

DVD Release: Jem & The Holograms The Truly Outrageous Complete Series Press Release

A week ago we had the early word about Shout!

Reactor 88 Studios is releasing the supernatural film Inspectres, now that production is complete. This is a horror comedy from director Darren Orange (The House that Jack Built), which includes zombies, a werewolf and various gremlins. This film completed earlier this month and already the film is slated to show in various cities. Check out the action in the trailer below.

The synopsis for Inspectres is here:

"In a world where ghosts, ghouls, and goblins are a common place, the InSpectres are the only exterminators capable of eliminating these supernatural nuisances! After a run in with a zombie, Lucas joins the InSpectres as an agent in training. He, his mentor Tracey, and company embark on eerily funny adventure aimed at re-capturing entities freed from a government holding ,by a corporate saboteur.

They encounter a variety of released oddities on their path to identifying the saboteur: an invisible Hollywood fan-boy, a party animal wolf-man,...

The Marvel Encyclopedia, Updated and Expanded

400 pages, Dk Books, $40

These days, you can’t follow Marvel’s or DC’s continuities without a scorecard and thankfully more than a few reference sources have arrived to help out. The latest is Dk’s 70th Anniversary contribution, a revised version of 2006’s The Marvel Encyclopedia. What a difference three years can make to continuity.

The key difference in the editions is the addition of pages, bringing the total to a hefty 400 pages. Dk did everyone a favor and kept the cover price consistent at $40. Frank Cho’s cover is replaced with a Brandon Peterson piece that attempts to reflect the full history of the Marvel heroes. Matt Forbeck deftly took the original text, written by a quintet of experts such as Tom DeFalco and Peter Sanderson, and brought dozens of entries up to date in addition to adding entirely new ones where warranted.