This is a very special post on Games That Rocked, because there’s a freakin’ book of video game poetry out, and Kirsten Irving, one of the editors and contributors to it, is going to tell you all about it. (It’s the second in a series, and if you want to buy the original – as I have – go here ASAP)

Title: Coin Opera II

Format: Paper and ink. Book, innit

Released: September, 2013

Many Levels: The Making of Coin Opera II

Thanks to Jon for letting me hijack GTR and deviate from the normal format to talk about a strange and exhausting adventure I’ve only just emerged from. Coin Opera II: Fulminare’s Revenge is an anthology marrying games, one of the world’s biggest and fastest creative industries, with poetry, an artform so low in sales even the biggest publishers make no money from it. Read the rest of this entry »