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Song of Ice And Fire Getting Game Treatment
Video games and fantasy novels seem like natural partners in many ways. They usually feature fantastic settings full of strange creatures, spectacular magics and intricate stories that could take dozens of movies to tell in full. One of the biggest series at the moment is George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. It’s been picked up by HBO for a try at a television series and now French studio Cyanide has announced they’re going to be making a video game version of the series.
If you’re unfamiliar with the books they revolve around a fictional medieval kingdom rife with plots, battle and betrayal. Unlike many series where wizards are commonplace and magic swords are stacked next to the bread in ye old marketplace things start off much more mundanely, though banditry, assassination plots and outright war make things just as dangerous.
The game will be developed for the PC and current generation consoles, though if that includes the Wii is unspecified. At this early stage there are of course few details available, but given the nature of the series it’s likely to be either a strategy title with players taking control of a noble family and winning the crown for themselves or an RPG, possibly based on one of the existing storylines or something entirely new.