The Wheel of Time Is Getting Its Own Open-World RPG Video Game

While fans hold to perceive whether oregon not Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time volition instrumentality for a 4th season—something showrunner Rafe Judkins besides has his fingers crossed about—there’s an adjacent nugget of quality from Robert Jordan’s phantasy realm. An open-world RPG video crippled is successful improvement from iwot Studios, which has owned the rights to Jordan’s 14-part publication bid since 2004, with the quality to make film, TV, video games, and comics based connected the material.

Variety reminds america that iwot Studios is down Age of Legends, a Wheel of Time origin-story diagnostic movie that was announced backmost successful 2023 with Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Solder) tapped to direct. iwot besides produces the Prime Video series, which conscionable wrapped up its 3rd play connected the streamer. The institution besides has an animated movie successful the works. So branching retired into video games feels similar a logical adjacent step.

The commercialized reports that the Wheel of Time crippled volition beryllium an AAA open-world RPG “developed wholly successful location by the squad astatine the recently launched iwot games, which volition beryllium led by Warner Bros. Games vet Craig Alexander.” It’s expected to instrumentality 3 years earlier its accomplishment connected some PC and consoles.

Alexander’s erstwhile credits see The Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, and Game of Thrones-themed mobile game, truthful helium has a grip connected sprawling phantasy settings. “Adapting specified a legendary mythology into an open-world RPG is simply a uncommon and ambitious challenge,” helium told the trade. “I’m thrilled to pb the effort and physique a world-class squad susceptible of honoring this beloved world.”

iwot Studios CEO Rick Selvage’s explained that portion the Wheel of Time game aims to physique connected the occurrence of the TV show, its contented won’t beryllium constricted to what we’ve seen crossed its 3 seasons truthful far. “It’s an open-world game, and it’ll beryllium everything with the Wheel of Time. Everything that is covered successful the books, arsenic good arsenic each the backstory elements of it,” helium told Variety. “It’s not going to beryllium constricted to 1 country oregon different oregon a peculiar property … it volition screen the full world.”

What bash you deliberation astir The Wheel of Time becoming a game? And erstwhile bash you deliberation Amazon volition yet spill the beans connected a 4th play of Judkins’ show? Channel your thoughts into the comments below.

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