{"id":1024,"date":"2009-05-13T07:06:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2009-05-13T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T17:38:03","slug":"an-aside-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-to-become-videogame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/news\/an-aside-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-to-become-videogame\/","title":{"rendered":"An Aside | A Song of Ice and Fire to become Videogame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noticed this on Follow the Raven<\/a> and thought it was too strange not to reiterate. It looks like the videogame rights to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire<\/strong> has been picked up by a company called Cyanide:<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s award-winning, international bestselling \u2018A Song of Ice and Fire\u2019 fantasy series. Under the terms of the agreement, Cyanide has obtained the exclusive rights to develop \u2018A Song of Ice and Fire\u2019 video games for next-generation consoles and PC, and in collaboration with George R.R Martin, development has begun.<\/p>\n

“We are all huge fans of \u2018A Song of Ice and Fire\u2019, 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. “The 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.”<\/p>\n

Published most notably by Bantam Books in North America and Voyager Books in the United Kingdom, the \u2018A Song of Ice and Fire\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Song of Ice and Fire\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

About George R. R. Martin<\/p>\n

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 \u2018Dying of the Light\u2019 was published in 1977. More information on the author is available through his website -www.georgerrmartin.com<\/p>\n

Regarding Cyanide Studio<\/p>\n

Cyanide is a private French video game development studio founded in 2000. Based in Paris, France and in Montreal, Canada, 70 employees are working on the two continents. Well-known for its sports sim such as the popular Cycling Manager\u00ae Series or Pro Rugby Manager\u00ae Series, Cyanide is also responsible for the famous Chaos League\u00ae, and the recent Hack\u2019n\u2019Slash Loki\u00ae released in end-year 2007. In 2009, Cyanide will release Blood Bowl\u00ae, an adaptation of the famous Games Workshop\u2019s board game, already awaited as a potential great hit, the annual edition of Pro Cycling Manager \u2013 Tour de France 2009\u00ae, and finally its first online free-to-play fast action MMOG, Dungeon Party\u00ae!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Erm… okay? Do we really need a videogame based on the series? Now, if they were to make an intricately plotted Turn-based strategy game, similar to Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions<\/strong>, that establishes its own place in the mythos of Martin’s world (perhaps far in the past, exploring an untouched upon aspect of Westeros?), that would be okay. More likely, though, we’ll have an action game featuring Jon Snow fighting the Others, or something else that completely misses the point of the novels. Also, can’t we at least wait until the series is finished before we start tainting its memory?<\/p>\n

Put me firmly in the skeptical party, here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noticed this on Follow the Raven and thought it was too strange not to reiterate. It looks like the videogame rights to George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has been picked up by a company called Cyanide: Cyanide, an independent video game studio, and George R. R. Martin today announced their partnership… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n