It has recently come to my attention that your favorite – and ours – fantasy series is slated to be incarnated into a video game. Finally, all that time you spent learning about Westeros is going to pay off. So grab your dire wolf, because virtual winter is coming!


The company that will be bringing us this game? Cyanide. Coming from France, the studio’s past works included Dungeon Party and Blood Bowl. Currently, of course, they are working on A Game of Thrones, subtitled “Genesis.” Here’s a snippet from the press release from the publisher Focus Home Interactive:

We are very pleased to announce that Focus Home Interactive will publish “A Game of Thrones: Genesis”, Cyanide’s new strategy game, adapted from George R.R. Martin’s famous series of best-sellers novels “A Song of Ice and Fire”.

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“A Game of Thrones: Genesis” plunges you into the heart of the battles and intrigues between the Families that shaped the Kingdom of Westeros.

A realtime strategy game with all your favorite characters? Sign me up. I have a sneaking suspicion that “Genesis” will mean that any sort of single player campaign will not revolve around the actual stories themselves, but the happenings that led to them. If that’s the case, it might be a little bummer, but so long as I get to stomp some Lannisters, I will be ok.

Full Press Release.