Random House division Prima Games (the largest publisher of videogame guides, with over 1400 titles published) has announced plans to publish a series of comics and a graphic novel collection based on Perfect Dark Zero, a new videogame for the Xbox 360, due out soon.   Perfect Dark Zero #0 appears in Prima's Official Game Guide to the videogame, released this month, and the first of six bi-monthly 32-page comics will be released next spring.  The comics will be collected into a graphic novel after the conclusion of the series. 

 

The series will be written by Eric S. Trautmann, a writer and editor of content for Xbox games for Microsoft, including MechWarrior 4:  Vengeance, Crimson Skies, and Halo.  He also edited and contributed to the Crimson Skies fiction anthology published by Del Rey.  Art will be by Cold FuZion Studios, which does art and design for comics, games (see 'Score's Afterworld:  Genesis TCG') and other uses, and includes artists Ale Garza and Joe Madureira, among others.  Perfect Dark Zero is a prequel to Perfect Dark, both designed by Rare Limited.