This press release has word that film studio Red Eagle Entertainment is
entering the world of games, as the owner of the rights to late author Robert
Jordan's
Wheel of Time series says they will create a series of Wheel of
Time games to accompany each of their movies based on the series, the first of
which,
The Eye of the World, is currently in production. Even more
ambitiously, they say their Red Eagle Games is also to create an MMOG based on
the series. There's not much more in the way of details about the games, other
than they are being targeted at "all major videogame platforms, including
consoles, personal computers, handheld systems and wireless devices." There's an
article on
VentureBeat (thanks Mike Martinez and
GamesIndustry.biz) focusing on the riskiness associated with such plans.
Those with long memories will recall Legend Entertainment released an
Unreal-engine
Wheel of Time action/RPG in 1999.