Fresh off the season three finale of The Wheel of Time, we have news that there will be at least one more project set in Robert Jordan’s fantasy universe.
Today, Variety broke the news that iwot Studios—the company that owns the rights to Jordan’s fourteen-book series across film, TV, video games, and comics—has set up its own video game division to develop a Wheel of Time AAA open-world role-playing game. The entire project will be worked on in-house and will take an estimated three years to complete.
“It’s an open-world game, and it’ll be everything with The Wheel of Time, everything that is covered in the books, as well as all the backstory elements of it,” iwot Studios CEO Rick Selvage told Variety. “As we build out the world, it’ll be the entire Wheel of Time world—it’s not going to be limited to one area or another or a particular age.”
This isn’t the only project iwot is working on based on their Wheel of Time rights. There’s the TV show, of course, and there’s also the prequel live-action films, the first of which is called Age of Legends, that they’re working on, as well as a 3D animated feature in development.
To that end, Selvage added that the video game will “have a lot of assets from [Age of Legends] and marketing opportunities and fan integration and a lot of other things,” but that, ultimately, the game will also “cover the entire world.”
The video game is still in its early days, with former Warner Bros. Games VP Craig Alexander leading the new studio. No news yet on release date for the game or, for that matter, Age of Legends.
