• By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
• Posted May 12, 2009 3:38 pm PT

Independent French developer picks up rights to award-winning fantasy author George R.R. Martin's acclaimed fantasy series.

In November, Red Eagle Games revealed that it had secured the rights to make games based on the late Robert Jordan's hallmark fantasy-novel series The Wheel of Time. That project was lent credence in January when EA announced that it would publish the games through its EA Partners label.

A Game of Thrones.

Now, one more pillar of the fantasy-novel universe is in store for a game adaptation. Independent French developer Cyanide said today that it has acquired the rights to create games based on multi-Hugo Award-winner George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Cyanide is currently at work on Blood Bowl, which is due for release on multiple platforms in June.

The deal extends to games created for current-generation consoles and the PC. Cyanide also noted that development has already begun on the first game, though a release window was not yet been set.

Currently on its fourth installment, A Song of Ice and Fire tells an intricate, epic fantasy story of the royal families of Westeros, who face uncertain times due to the unexpected reemergence of a number of ancient races. The franchise has previously been spun off into a card and board game, and has also been optioned by HBO for use in a television series.

I've read them, and I'm currently working on some material for the pen and paper roleplaying game, so I know the setting well. I, for one, am hugely looking forward to any game based on those books.

I've been waiting..What two years now for Dance with Dragons....I need that book!!!
The game would be cool I always thought of an MMO type game where you make a Hedge Knight....And Fight your way up in ranks...And have to do jobs/missions to get money to buy a horse and what not..Or maybe a Game based on the Brotherhood without Banners...

I read the first one.

Why did you stop?

Perhaps you should take a look at the pen and paper game to take the edge off your hunger for more material:

http://www.greenronin.com/sifrp/

As for the next novel: well, we could all be waiting a long time for that.

The series started off strong and the world was entertaining as a whole. Unfourtunatly the author had a tendenancy to be overly verbose and got sidetracked frequently.Out of an average of about 800 pages a volume I found myself sloging through about 400 pages of crap to get to the good parts. He died before he finished the series. Supposedly another author is taking what was written of the final volume and is completing it.

Book to game transitions are typicaly about as sucessful as movie to game. Unfortunaly games like Betrayal at Krondor were the exception and no the rule. Still I'm interested to see how this one turns out.

George R. R. Martin is alive and well, trust me. If he's dead, who the hell will be looking over the work I'm doing right now once I've completed it? You sure you're not thinking of Robert Jorden?

ah ignore me I skimmed and saw wheel of time. have not read any Martin

I have read WoT execpt the prequel and yet to read knife of Dreams...Yes He would go on about nothing at times..I remembering cursing so much when having to stupid chapters staring Aes Sedai that mirrored the chapters of the two rivers girls......It was so awful..But the good parts were really good