George R.R. Martin’s critically acclaimed (and totally awesome) "‘A Song of Ice and Fire" series will be hitting consoles and PCs in the future. This afternoon French developer Cyanide (
Blood Bowl,
Pro Rugby Manager) announced that they acquired the “interactive rights” to the series and will be delivering more than one videogame based on Martin’s gritty-ass books.
The quotes in the press release (available after the break) are mildly reassuring. Patrick Pligersdorffer, Cyanide’s managing director, offered verbal praise for Martin’s work and indicated that the integrity of “A Song of Ice and Fire” would be left intact.
Nothing is scarier than a licensed game based on a property you love and admire. Get it right Cyanide. No one wants
Main Characters Who Die Manager.
CYANIDE, A FRENCH VIDEO GAME STUDIO, SECURES INTERACTIVE RIGHTS TO GEORGE R. R. MARTIN’S BESTSELLING ‘A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE’ SERIES
First-Ever 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Video Games to Bring Classic Fantasy Series to Life
Nanterre, France – 12th May 2009
Cyanide, an independent video game studio, and George R. R. Martin today announced their partnership to create the first-ever video games inspired by the author’s award-winning, international bestselling ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ fantasy series. Under the terms of the agreement, Cyanide has obtained the exclusive rights to develop ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ video games for next-generation consoles and PC, and in collaboration with George R.R Martin, development has begun.
«We are all huge fans of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, so it is a true honour for our teams to be entrusted with creating the first video games inspired by this masterpiece» stated Patrick Pligersdorffer, Managing Director of Cyanide. "twists and turns of the plot will allow us to deliver an experience which can be enjoyed by both long-time fans as well as gamers new to the series."
Published most notably by Bantam Books in North America and Voyager Books in the United Kingdom, the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ novels have been translated into more than twenty languages (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian) and have been nominated for numerous prizes. Set in a world where nothing is simply black and white, the rich web of characters makes it an ideal background for numerous genres of video games.
‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ has already been adapted into a card game and a board game. More recently, HBO acquired the rights with the intent of turning the novels into a television series.
About George R. R. Martin
George R.R. Martin is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He started writing in the early 1970s and his first novel ‘Dying of the Light’ was published in 1977. More information on the author is available through his website -www.georgerrmartin.com
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Another graduate of the Robert Jordan School of Unfinished Literature.
It would seem to me reasonable to start with A Game of Thrones, but if this is an error, let me know.
Also, what Braumeister said.
Here's hoping there is a strategy game AND an RPG.
"Set in a world where nothing is simply black and white, the rich web of characters makes it an ideal background for numerous genres of video games."
Board game? Yes. RTS? Maybe. RPG? It's a stretch.
FPS? don't even think about it.
The guy can't tie up the novels, how the hell is he going to adapt an unfinished work for the screen?
Martin started writing Dance with Dragons in 2005, and he has at least 2 more books to go after that, according to Wikipedia. I just don't get it.
Sadly, I'm disappointed about this. I feel like all this will be is FANTASY SOCCER/FOOTBALL STARRING JAMIE LANNISTER. It's going to fail.
Do. Not. Want.
Particularly Jordan's Wheel of Time, which had an incredibly detailed magic system, colorful villains, and even classes of a sort. (Even if the books are somewhat lacking.)
Ah well. So much for what could have been.
Time will tell with Martin, I suppose.
Sports game developers going up against "Song" are not exactly inspiring confidence.
BTW TV series, game(s)? Maybe Martin could be so kind to eventually finish "Dance of Dragons" now?
Aren't these guys the same developers who were "too small" to put out a game on PS3? And they're planning to take on a huge and extremely complex series like Ice and Fire? This can only end in disaster, if they're lucky.
But stranger things have happened. The Wolverine move tie-in, for instance, didn't totally suck.
Also, Robb dies.
Hopefully the game gets a proper treatment, something along the lines of The Witcher.
Rest assured, he's still working on it. He isn't directly involved with the tv series, someone else wrote the screenplay.
My guess is it will just keep going and going like Wheel of Time. Any story with a cast that large is just going to be endless and hard to tie up.
HODOR!!!!
I can totally see ASOIAF made into an FPS. Wildlings vs wights for multiplayer and the singleplayer can follow one of the bit characters that is a magic user. Melisandre comes to mind.
@multijoe
You are the worst kind of asshole. I feel bad for anyone in here who was spoiled because of you. Fucker.
Normally I'd agree with your opinion of me, but A Song of Fire and Ice is a dead series, people just don't realise it yet. Even if George manages to actually finish A Dance with Dragons, his pizza addiction WILL take him out before the next one.
@braumeister
Robert Jordan is dead. Kind of hard to blame the man for not finishing the series. Brandon Sanderson is finishing the Wheel of Time series, look it up.
Books are always books and will be infinitely better then any kind of interpretation of them. Still enjoy seeing all the offshoots.
I'm going to try real hard to erase this from my mind in the coming months.
Thanks for being a bitch.
Yeah, I forgot all about Jordan passing on when I posted that, and Jordan was hardly the procrastinator Martin is turning out to be.
Sorry, just kinda jaded that he wrote half a pretty good series then decided to start blogging, eating pizza, watching football and blogging about eating pizza and watching football. And as long as people keep buying into the extended franchise, there isn't even the financial incentive for Martin to continue writing.
Anyway, vaguely sorry bout the spoilers, but hey, it won't come to anything anyway.