An open-world RPG primarily based on Robert Jordan’s 14-book fantasy collection The Wheel of Time is within the works, 20 years after Crimson Eagle Leisure, now rebranded as iwot Studios, acquired the rights to make video games primarily based on the collection.
Variety stories the sport shall be a “AAA open-world role-playing sport” developed wholly in-house by iwot Studios, led by former Warner Bros. Video games VP of product growth Craig Alexander. The studio is projecting a three-year growth cycle for the sport, which is slated to launch on consoles and PC.
It is a part of the studio’s plan to increase The Wheel of Time throughout movie, tv, and gaming, which it additionally owns the rights to. Dev iwot Studios has already served as a producer on Amazon’s Wheel of Time TV collection, in addition to on an upcoming movie known as Age of Legends and a 3D-animated Wheel of Time movie at the moment in growth. CEO Rick Selvage advised Selection that there shall be synergy between upcoming movie tasks and the sport, however that the sport would cowl everything of Jordan’s world.
“It is an open-world sport, and it will be all the pieces with the Wheel of Time,” Selvage stated. “Every part that’s lined within the books, in addition to all of the backstory components of it. As we construct out the world, it’s going to be all the Wheel of Time World, it is not going to be restricted to at least one space or one other or a specific age.”
Again in 2008, when iwot was nonetheless often called Crimson Eagle Leisure, the studio stated it had partnered with well-known RPG consultants Obsidian Leisure to assist construct a sport primarily based on Wheel of Time. The sport was initially deliberate for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. On the time, an MMORPG primarily based on Wheel of Time was additionally stated to be within the works, together with a live-action movie from Common Studios.
Clearly, none of these tasks got here to move, so it stays to be seen whether or not or not this Wheel of Time open-world RPG will come to fruition. Selection notes that Alexander is at the moment constructing the studio’s management group, which shall be primarily based in Montreal.
These seeking to lastly get into Jordan’s large ebook collection (the final three of which have been written by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan’s loss of life in 2007) at the moment have an affordable manner to take action, as each Wheel of Time ebook, and two companion books, are at the moment $18 on Humble Bundle.