Smoking Gun Interactive, the Vancouver-based game developer that was formed from former members of Relic Entertainment, has been pretty silent about what they have planned since they first announced themselves two years ago. Today the company didn't really reveal anything about the game itself but did announce a collaboration with author Douglas Rushkoff.

Rushkoff has written a number of acclaimed books about new media and popular culture as well as two novels (Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy). He will work with Smoking Gun Interactive on the storyline for their still unrevealed game "across a range of media formats that can feed off one another and exist concurrently". Whatever that means.

Rushkoff himself adds, "I'm going to get to work closely with them, writing narrative pathways that carry readers through the universe of the game world. We'll all be writing for and stealing from one another, developing plot points, set pieces, and characters that have both stories in the books, and purposes in the games." This sounds needlessly pretentious but as long as the game itself is fun to play we will go with it.