Rarely do video games and any other medium meet, and when they do it’s usually a massive disaster – think the Super Mario Bros movie or the video game adaptations of every blockbuster released in the last ten years. From cash ins to published fanfiction, it’s a sorry state of affairs. So, when I discovered a novel about video games that wasn’t utterly repugnant and lacking in soul, I thought it might be worth a gander. The Broken World is portrayed as a walkthrough of a game of the same name, written by an unnamed narrator who cannot help but let his personal life interrupt his Internet duties. At first dedicated and detailed in...