List of novels based on video games

The following is a list of novels based on video games.

Army of Two

Graphic Novels

Army of Two: Dirty Money: John Ney Rieber (ISBN 978-0-76-155744-9)

Assassin's Creed

Novels

Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade: Oliver Bowden (ISBN 978-0-241-95172-9) - Based on the Game Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed: Renaissance: Oliver Bowden (ISBN 978-0-14-104630-3) - Based on the Game Assassin's Creed II
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: Oliver Bowden (ISBN 978-0-241-95171-2) - Based on the Game Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Revelations: Oliver Bowden (ISBN 978-0-241-95173-6)-Based on the Game Assassin's Creed Revelations
Assassin's Creed: Forsaken: Oliver Bowden (ISBN 978-0-7181-5949-8) - Based on the Game Assassin's Creed III

Battlefield 3

Novels

Battlefield 3: The Russian: Andy McNab & Peter Grimsdale

Bot Colony

Novels

Bot Colony: Eugene Joseph (ISBN 978-0-9865804-0-6)

Crimson Skies

Novels

Crimson Skies: Eric Nylund. Michael B. Lee, Nancy Berman, Eric S. Trautmann (ISBN 978-0-345-45874-2)
Wings of Fortune: Pirate's Gold: Stephen Kenson.
Wings of Justice: Rogue Flyer: Loren L. Coleman.

Crysis

Novels

Legion: Peter Watts

Dead Space

Novels

Dead Space: Martyr: Brian Evenson (ISBN 978-0-7653-2503-7)

Dead Space: Catalyst: Brian Evenson (ISBN 978-0-8576-8176-8)

Deus Ex

Novels

Deus Ex: Icarus Effect: James Swallow (ISBN 978-0-85768-160-7) and (ISBN 978-0-34552-359-4)

Diablo

Novels

Legacy of Blood (Diablo, Book 1): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-0-671-04155-7)
The Black Road (Diablo, Book 2): Mel Odom (ISBN 978-0-7434-2691-6)
The Kingdom of Shadow (Diablo, Book 3): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-0-7434-2692-3)

Moon of the Spider (Diablo): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-0-7434-7132-9)
Demonsbane (Diablo; Diablo Archive): Robert B. Marks (ISBN 978-1-4165-7699-0)

Birthright (Diablo: The Sin War, Book 1): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-0-7434-7122-0)
Scales of the Serpent (Diablo: The Sin War, Book 2): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-07434-7123-7)
The Veiled Prophet (Diablo: The Sin War, Book 3): Richard A. Knaak (ISBN 978-0-7434-7124-4)

Book of Cain (Diablo 3): Deckard Cain (ISBN 978-1608-87045-5)
The Order (Diablo 3): Nate Kenyon (ISBN 978-1-4165-5078-5)

Dragon Age

Novels

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne: David Gaider
Dragon Age: The Calling: David Gaider
Dragon Age: Asunder: David Gaider

Driver: San Francisco

Novels

Nemesis: Alex Sharp

Doom

Knee Deep In The Dead
Hell on Earth
Infernal Sky
Endgame

The Elder Scrolls

Novels

The Infernal City: Greg Keyes (ISBN 978-0-345-50801-0)
Lord of Souls: Greg Keyes (ISBN 978-0-345-50802-7)

Elemental: War of Magic

Novels

Elemental: Destiny's Embers: Bradley Wardell (ISBN 0-345-51786-5)

Fable

Novels

The Balverine Order: Peter David (ISBN 978-0575100220)
Blood Ties: Peter David (ISBN 978-1-937007-40-9)

Gabriel Knight

Novels

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers: Jane Jensen (ISBN 0-451-45607-6)
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery: Jane Jensen (ISBN 0-451-45621-1)

Gears of War

Novels

Gears of War: Aspho Fields: Karen Traviss (ISBN 978-0-345-49943-1)
Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant: Karen Traviss (ISBN 978-1-84149-738-9)
Gears of War: Coalition's End: Karen Traviss
Gears of War: Anvil Gate: Karen Traviss
Gears of War: The Slab: Karen Traviss (ISBN 978-0-356-50105-5)

God of War

Novels

God of War (novel), a 2010 novelization of the 2005 video game God of War written by Matthew Stover and Robert E. Vardeman

Guild Wars / Guild Wars 2

Novels

Guild Wars : Ghosts of Ascalon: Matt Forbeck, Jeff Grubb (ISBN 978-1-4165-8947-1)
Guild Wars : Edge of Destiny: J. Robert King (ISBN 978-1-4165-8960-0)

Halo

Novels

Six licensed novels based on the Halo series have been published:

Halo: The Fall of Reach: Eric S. Nylund (ISBN 1-84149-420-8)
Halo: The Flood: William C. Dietz (ISBN 1-84149-421-6)
Halo: First Strike: Eric S. Nylund (ISBN 1-84149-422-4)
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx: Eric S. Nylund (ISBN 0-7653-1568-8)
Halo: Contact Harvest: Joseph Staten (ISBN 0-7653-1569-6)
Halo: The Cole Protocol: Tobias S. Buckell (ISBN 978-0-7653-1570-0)
Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales from the Halo Universe: Various Authors (ISBN 978-0-7653-1573-1)
Halo: Cryptum: Greg Bear (ISBN 978-0-7653-2396-5)
Halo: Primordium: Greg Bear (ISBN 978-0-7653-2397-2)
Halo: Glasslands: Karen Traviss (ISBN 978-0-7653-3040-6)
Halo: The Thursday War: Karen Traviss

Hellgate London

Novels

Hellgate: Exodus (Hellgate: London Trilogy, Book 1): Mel Odom (ISBN 1-4165-2579-3)
Hellgate: Goetia (Hellgate: London Trilogy, Book 1): Mel Odom (ISBN 1-4165-2580-7)
Hellgate: Covenant (Hellgate: London Trilogy, Book 1): Mel Odom (ISBN 1-4165-2581-5)

Hitman

Novels

Enemy Within: William C. Deitz
Hitman Damnation: Raymond Benson

Homefront

Novels

Homefront: The Voice of Freedom: Raymond Benson and John Milius

Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death

Novels

Dredd Vs. Death: Gordon Rennie

Killzone

Novels

Ascendency: Sam Bradbury

Mass Effect

Novels

Mass Effect: Revelation: Drew Karpyshyn (ISBN 978-0-345-49816-8)
Mass Effect: Ascension: Drew Karpyshyn (ISBN 978-0-345-49852-6)
Mass Effect: Retribution: Drew Karpyshyn (ISBN 978-0-345-52072-2)
Mass Effect: Deception: William C. Dietz

Metal Gear Solid

Novels

Metal Gear Solid: Raymond Benson (ISBN 0-345-50328-7)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: Raymond Benson (ISBN 0-345-50343-0)

Perfect Dark

Novels

Perfect Dark: Initial Vector: Greg Rucka (ISBN 0-7653-1571-8)
Perfect Dark: Second Front: Greg Rucka (ISBN 0-7653-1572-4)

Planetfall

Novels

Planetfall: Arthur Byron Cover (ISBN 0-380-75384-7)

Rage

Novels

Rage: Matthew J. Costello (ISBN 978-0-3455-2936-7)

Resident Evil

Novels

Resident Evil: Zero Hour (Resident Evil): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-78511-7)
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy (Resident Evil #1): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-02439-6)
Resident Evil: Caliban Cove (Resident Evil #2): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-02440-X)
Resident Evil: City Of The Dead (Resident Evil #3): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-02441-8)
Resident Evil: Underworld (Resident Evil #4): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-02442-6)
Resident Evil: Nemesis (Resident Evil #5): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-78496-X)
Resident Evil: Code: Veronica (Resident Evil #6): S.D. Perry (ISBN 0-671-78498-6)

Resistance

Novels

Resistance: The Gathering Storm: William C. Dietz (ISBN 0-345-50842-4, ISBN 978-0-345-50842-3)
A Hole In The Sky: William C. Dietz

Rogue Trooper

Novels

The Quartz Massacre: Rebecca Levene (ISBN 1-84416-110-2)

RuneScape

Novels

RuneScape: Betrayal at Falador: T.S. Church (ISBN 978-0-9559078-0-7)
RuneScape: Return to Canifis: T.S. Church (ISBN 978-1848567276)
RuneScape: Legacy of Blood: T.S. Church (ISBN 978-0857687579)

Shadow Warrior

Novels

For Dead Eyes Only: Dean Wesley Smith (ISBN 0-671-01879-5)

Sonic the Hedgehog

Gamebooks

A series of six Sonic Adventures gamebooks were published in the UK between 1993 and 1996 by Puffin under the Fantail label:

Book 1 - Metal City Mayhem: James Wallis (ISBN 0-14-090391-7)
Book 2 - Zone Rangers: James Wallis (ISBN 0-14-090392-5)
Book 3 - Sonic v Zonik: Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0-14-090406-9)
Book 4 - The Zone Zapper: Nigel Gross and Jon Sutherland (ISBN 0-14-090407-7)
Book 5 - Theme Park Panic: Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green^{[disambiguation needed]} (ISBN 0-14-037847-2)
Book 6 - Stormin' Sonic: Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green (ISBN 0-14-037848-0)

Novels

Stay Sonic: Mike Pattenden developed a detailed origin for the character later used as the basis of most subsequent UK Sonic stories.

James Wallis, Marc Gascoigne and Carl Sargent (under the pseudonym of Martin Adams) wrote four Sonic the Hedgehog novels based on the origin established in Stay Sonic. They were published in the UK by Virgin Publishing.

Book 1 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory: (ISBN 0-426-20401-8)
Book 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension: (ISBN 0-426-20402-6)
Book 3 - Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors: (ISBN 0-426-20403-4)
Book 4 - Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik: (ISBN 0-426-20405-0)

Michael Teitelbaum has also written a series of Sonic novels:

Sonic the Hedgehog: (ISBN 0-8167-3199-3)
Robotnik's Revenge: (ISBN 0-8167-3438-0)
Fortress of Fear: (ISBN 0-8167-3582-4)
Friend or Foe?: (ISBN 0-8167-3672-3)
Sonic & Knuckles: (ISBN 0-8167-3781-9)
Sonic X-Treme

Two novels have been written based on the Second/Third season of Sonic X:

Meteor Shower Messenger
Spaceship Blue Typhoon

Where's Sonic?: Using a similar idea to the Where's Wally?/Where's Waldo? books, each page presented the reader with a different puzzle, each one inspired by a different level from Sonic 2 on the Genesis / Sega Mega Drive. Published by Ladybird Books Ltd.
Where's Sonic Now?

Picture books:

Robotnik's Oil
The Invisible Robotnik

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series

Novels

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Southern Comfort: John Mason (ISBN 978-1466220720)

StarCraft

Novels

Liberty's Crusade (StarCraft, Book 1): Jeff Grubb (ISBN 978-0-671-04148-9)
Shadow of the Xel'Naga (StarCraft, Book 2): Gabriel Mesta (ISBN 978-0-671-04149-6)
Speed Of Darkness (StarCraft, Book 3): Tracy Hickman (ISBN 978-0-671-04150-2)
Uprising (StarCraft; StarCraft Archive): Micky Neilson (ISBN 978-1-4165-4929-1)

Queen Of Blades (StarCraft): Aaron S. Rosenberg (ISBN 978-0-7434-7133-6)
I, Mengsk (StarCraft): Graham McNeill (ISBN 978-1-4165-5083-9)

Firstborn (StarCraft: Dark Templar, Book 1): Christie Golden (ISBN 978-0-7434-7125-1)
Shadow Hunters (StarCraft: Dark Templar, Book 2): Christie Golden (ISBN 978-0-7434-7126-8)
Twilight (StarCraft: Dark Templar, Book 3): Christie Golden (ISBN 978-0-7434-7129-9)

Nova (StarCraft: Ghost): Keith R. A. DeCandido (ISBN 978-0-7434-7134-3)
Spectres (StarCraft: Ghost): Nate Kenyon (ISBN 978-1-4391-0938-0)

Heaven's Devils (StarCraft II): William C. Dietz (ISBN 978-1-4165-5084-6)
Devils' Due (StarCraft II): Christie Golden (ISBN 978-1-4165-5085-3)

Manga

Fontline: Volume 1 (StarCraft): Naohiro Washio, Paul Benjamin, Richard A. Knaak, Ramanda Kamarga, Joshua Elder (ISBN 1427807212)
Fontline: Volume 2 (StarCraft): Grace Randolph, Joshua Elder, Kieron Gillen, Simon Furman (ISBN 1-4278-0831-7)
Fontline: Volume 3 (StarCraft): Dave Shramek, Grace Randolph, Joshua Elder, Paul Benjamin, Ren Zatopek (ISBN 1-4278-0832-5)
Fontline: Volume 4 (StarCraft): Chris Metzen, David Gerrold, Joshua Elder (ISBN 1-4278-1698-0)

Stationfall

Novels

Stationfall: Arthur Byron Cover (ISBN 0-380-75387-1)

Star Wars The Force Unleashed

Novels

The Force Unleashed: Sean Williams
The Force Unleashed II: Sean Williams

Street Fighter

Novels

Street Fighter: Dream Never Ends: Talyn Rahman-Figueroa (available online www.dreamneverends.com)

Tom Clancy's EndWar

Novels

EndWar: David Michaels
The Hunted: David Michaels

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Novels

Ghost Recon: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-22014-6)
Combat Ops: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-24006-9)

Tom Clancy's HAWX

Novels

HAWX: David Michaels

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Novels

Splinter Cell: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-20168-8)
Operation Barracuda: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-20422-1)
Checkmate: David Michaels (ISBN 0-425-21278-5)
Fallout: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-21824-2)
Conviction: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-23104-3)
Endgame: David Michaels (ISBN 978-0-425-23144-9)

Tomb Raider

Novels

The Amulet of Power: Mike Resnick
The Lost Cult: E.E. Knight
The Man of Bronze: James Alan Gardner

Uncharted

Novels

The Fourth Labyrinth: Ryan Hughes

Unreal

Novels

Hard Crash: Christopher Golden
Prophet's Power: Dean Wesley Smith

WarCraft

Novels

Warcraft: Day of the Dragon: Richard A. Knaak
Warcraft: Lord of the Clans: Christie Golden
Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor: Chris Metzen
Warcraft: The Last Guardian: Jeff Grubb
The Well of Eternity: Richard A. Knaak
The Demon Soul: Richard A. Knaak
The Sundering: Richard A. Knaak

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

Novels

Dawn of War: C S Goto
Ascension: C S Goto
Tempest: C S Goto
Blood Ravens: The Dawn of War Omnibus: C S Goto

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior

Novels

Fire Warrior: Simon Spurrier

World of Warcraft

Novels

World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred: Keith R.A. DeCandido
World of Warcraft: Night of the Dragon: Richard A. Knaak
World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King: Christie Golden
World of Warcraft: Stormrage: Richard A. Knaak
World of Warcraft: The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm: Christie Golden
World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects: Christie Golden
World of Warcraft: Wolfheart: Richard A. Knaak
World of Warcraft: Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War (Upcoming): Christie Golden
World of Warcraft: Rise of the Horde: Christie Golden
Warcraft: The Last Guardian: Jeff Grubb
World of Warcraft: Tides of Darkness: Aaron Rosenberg
World of Warcraft: Beyond the Dark Portal: Aaron Rosenberg & Christie Golden

X-COM

Novels

X-Com UFO Defence: Diane Duane

References