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"Game of Thrones" Gets Three Video Games

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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We don’t normally cover video games, because the patron saint of movies told us they could never be art, and we’re all about the art around here. I should also say that I am very proud that I could find that link on Pajiba by just searching for “ebert lawn.” It’s the little things.

“A Game of Thrones,” having soaked HBO with awesome sauce, is now moving on to the video game arena. Despite there already being a real time strategy game that hasn’t yielded very positive reviews, the powers that be have announced an additional three game based on the series. The first will be a single player role-playing game on the development of which George R.R. Martin is helping. Says the journalistic juggernaut USA Today in an article on the game:

Among the characters Martin created for the in-development and as-yet-untitled role-playing games are a member of the Night’s Watch on the frozen Wall and a Red priest. The game “has some interesting stuff and looks gorgeous,” he says.

Neat. In my head, I’m seeing a sort of Elder Scrolls game except with more drinking and nudity. Of course, video games based on other mediums seem to invariably be terrible video games, so I’m not holding my breath.

Another game in development is an MMO that will be free to play. It’s being developed by the same company which made the free-to-play Battlestar Galactica MMO that seems to be tossed up by an ad-server on every other webpage I visit.

Finally, there’s a social networking game being compared to Farmville. Since I’m not going to play it anyway, I’m just going to assume it’s called Angry Dwarves.

(source: Blastr)









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Comments

Interesting...

I have no real interest in the MMO-type game or the Farmville-type game, but the RPG could be good. Hopefully, Cyanide (the company that made the strategy game) wont be involved or too involved, because they are a hack studio. They really make some lousy games.

Posted by: ForbiddenDonut at November 10, 2011 10:07 AM

The chance that Cyanide will make a game worth playing is nonexistent. Always follow the studio pedigree.

http://www.metacritic.com/company/cyanide

Posted by: mt at November 10, 2011 10:12 AM

Hang on, Cyanide did a good version of Blood Bowl. Mind you, all they had to do was convert the GW rules into code, put over a few animations/fancy graphics and an AI that worked effectively.

And the result was a game with a couple of rules failing to work properly, repeating animations that gets really boring and an AI that fails to give a challenge at any level.

Oh.

Ok, Cyanide don't make good games.

Posted by: Yastobaal at November 10, 2011 10:23 AM

Dwarf Fortress - pretty much the complete opposite of "Angry Dwarves", except for the Dwarves. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

(The word "Dwarves" just looks wrong. Maybe it looks better in Khuzdul?)

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at November 10, 2011 10:49 AM

"Of course, video games based on other mediums seem to invariably be terrible video games, so I’m not holding my breath."

Play either of the Batman "Arkham" games and then get back to us....

Posted by: boscobarbell at November 10, 2011 10:56 AM

Atlus is working on the rpg game (the same ppl behind Catherine) and they're going to include scenes from the tv series (brings me back to the good ol' days of MechWarrior Vengeance).

and just look at this screenshot:

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/9/2011/11/xlarge_61fc99d8ad07cc2d44af75db2d754e5e.jpg

Posted by: haplo at November 10, 2011 10:59 AM

I will totally buy that RPG. And will fail at it quickly and end up watching TheMaskedEmu play it instead, which is what happens with most RPGs in our house.

Posted by: KatSings at November 10, 2011 11:17 AM

Is it really that difficult to find an actual image from the show or its promotional materials rather than a shitty fan mockup photoshop? (Answer: No, there's freaking thousands plastered over every square inch of the internet, so I don't know how.)

Posted by: Hector at November 10, 2011 11:37 AM

The first will be a single player role-playing game on the development of which George R.R. Martin is helping.

So we should expect to spend significant time leveling up and becoming invested in our characters only to be unexpectedly and unavoidably slaughtered?

Posted by: Jast at November 10, 2011 12:16 PM

Not gonna lie: I will play the hell out of that Farmville type game. I will watch DarthCorleone play the hell out of the RPG.

Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at November 10, 2011 12:37 PM

I believe that Atlus will be making the RPG.

Posted by: SKellyHart at November 10, 2011 12:42 PM

Unless one dude is fathering all the dwarfs in the world, the quote probably ought to say, "All dwarfs are bastards in their fathers' eyes."

Posted by: appwitch at November 10, 2011 1:21 PM

We have the GoT board games, and they're stellar. I'm all in on the next round.

(and great googily-moogily, that picture makes me want to do bad, bad very unladylike things with Tyrion/Dinklage)

Posted by: amynae at November 10, 2011 3:57 PM

Cyanide is developing the RPG too. Altus is just the publisher. I have little hope that this will be any good at all. The RTS is a steaming pile of shit.

Posted by: space oddity at November 10, 2011 4:19 PM

If Pajiba covered video games I would never need to visit any other website.

Posted by: Luis at November 10, 2011 4:23 PM