Random House's New Digital Obsession Includes a Video Games Division

Random House has announced it's diversifying to offset the failing profits from the traditional book publishing biz, but its target market is fascinating: Video games. So will video games benefit from a publisher, or more the other way around?

Random has set up a dedicated team inside the company with the purpose of generating original story content for video games and to provide advice to games writers already in-mid development. Two original projects have already been started: a fantasy...