{"id":12624,"date":"2011-05-09T20:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2011-05-09T20:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:43:39","slug":"todays-l-a-noire-original-short-story-release-whats-in-a-name-by-jonathan-santlofer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=12624","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s L.A. Noire Original Short Story Release: &#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name&#8221; by Jonathan Santlofer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.rockstargames.com\/rockstargames\/img\/global\/news\/upload\/whats_in_a_name-WEB.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"533\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Names can be confusing, like mine, which is John, I\u00a0think, though when I learned to write, Carole said it was Jon without an h, or maybe James, and when I\u00a0asked her which one, she said, Who cares?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the heels of this past Tuesday&#8217;s announcement about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/lanoire\/features\/stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories<\/a>, a\u00a0series of original short fiction inspired by the game itself, today we present for your reading pleasure the first full story release from that collection &#8211; as we introduce you to John&#8230; or is it Jon&#8230; or maybe it&#8217;s James&#8230;\u00a0<br \/>\nA story of a\u00a0sociopath with high hopes, and a curious knowledge of the Los Angeles\u00a0underworld.\u00a0And of a young LAPD\u00a0detective working to crack the latest murder case to terrify the city.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy award-winning writer, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathansantlofer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Santlofer<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/lanoire\/features\/stories\/#\/whats-in-a-name\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What&#8217;s in a Name&#8221;<\/a> in its entirety at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/lanoire\/features\/stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.rockstargames.com\/lanoire\/stories<\/a>, available to read within the site or as a downloadable PDF.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more releases from the series over the coming weeks to and through the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/lanoire\" target=\"_blank\">L.A.\u00a0Noire<\/a>. And look for the full set of stories to be made available for download as an e-book on June 6th<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;Names can be confusing, like mine, which is John, I\u00a0think, though when I learned to write, Carole said it was Jon without an h, or maybe James, and when I\u00a0asked her which one, she said, Who cares?&#8221; On the heels of this past Tuesday&#8217;s announcement about L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories, a\u00a0series of original<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=12624\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12625,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions\/12625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}