Industrial Toys launches its Midnight Rises digital graphic novel

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 30, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Industrial Toys has released Midnight Rises, a free digital graphic novel for iOS devices. The comic book introduces the story of a new sci-fi universe, and it is the forerunner for the upcoming mobile action game, Midnight Star.

Midnight Rises is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices. It is the first graphic novel from Hugo-award winning author John Scalzi (Old Man’s War, Lock In), with illustrations from veteran comic artist Mike Choi (Uncanny X-Men, X-Force). The goal of the novel is to introduce the back story for the first game from Industrial Toys, which was started by console game veterans Alex Seropian and Tim Harris. The graphic novel and game are a kind of transmedia project that is aimed at pushing the boundaries of mobile gaming.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.