{"id":4112,"date":"2009-07-14T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"god-of-war-novel-incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4112-god-of-war-novel-incoming","title":{"rendered":"God of War Novel incoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment media crossovers are by no means a new thing. Countless movies have been made into games, and in recent times we have even seen games being made into movies.<\/p>\n<p>One of the rarest crossovers however is the fabled game-to-book spin off. A few games have done it, and with surprising success. Halo immediately springs to mind along with Resistance. Then of course there is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/News\/3936-Bioshock-novel-the-works.html\" target=\"_self\"> Bioshock novel<\/a> which is in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The latest video game story to be imortalised in novel format is none other than God of War. SCEE has announced that author Matthew Stover is finishing up a novel based on the epic God of War saga.<\/p>\n<p>Stover has previously worked on equally geeky texts, including Star Wars: Shatterpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The God of War novel will cover Kratos&rsquo; entire story, and promises to delve deep into the mind of the hero.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is planned for release in March 2010 and will cost $15 (R120).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1845\" target=\"_self\">Discuss God of War novel <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kratos to be immortalized in novel format<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}