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Adrian Werner, 08 March 2024, 04:05

Mighty Koi Studio aims high. Besides the just-announced Thorgal, the team is also working on The Night Wanderer, game based on the Lord of the Ice Garden series by Jaroslaw Grzedowicz.

Jan Kopacz, 23 August 2023, 14:19

The Dust has prepared a trailer for gamescom, showing gameplay in The Inquisitor.

Marcin Przala, 26 January 2023, 17:12

Starward Industries has secured another year of exclusive rights to produce games from the universe created by the prominent Polish fantasy writer.

Adrian Werner, 18 August 2022, 13:09

Embracer Group will acquire Middle-earth Enterprises, and with it the rights to create adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The conglomerate has also bought out the developers of Teardown and the Killing Floor series.

Adrian Werner, 16 August 2022, 13:46

Weta Workshop is working on a new game set in Tolkien's Middle-earth. The game will be published by Private Division.

Michael Zegar, 12 May 2022, 20:09

Funcom - creators of Conan Exiles - informed that they are currently working on a survival game set in the Dune universe. The action of this next-gen title is to be placed on Arrakis and feature a multiplayer experience multiplayer.

Krzysztof Kaluzinski, 03 April 2022, 16:55

Bandai Namco has sent a package to Brandon Sanderson, related to Elden Ring. According to the attached message, the company is interested in working with the famous writer.

Adrian Werner, 03 February 2022, 13:16

Version 1.3 of The Wheel of Time mod has been released, a project that introduces a companion and adventures inspired by the Wheel of Time fantasy series to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition.

Hubert Sledziewski, 31 January 2022, 13:26

Starward Industries has announced that Invincible, a retrofuturistic FPP adventure based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, will come out in 2022 and will not be an Epic Games Store exclusive. We also learned the system requirements for the game.

Jacob Blazewicz, 23 December 2021, 12:03

The Harry Potter franchise could have lived to see its own MMORPG - if only Electronic Arts had no doubts about the brand's future.

Agnes Adamus, 10 December 2021, 02:00

During the pre-show of The Game Awards, we've seen the announcement of The Expanse from Telltale, a game based on a popular sci-fi show.

Hubert Sledziewski, 24 November 2021, 10:39

During the Golden Joystick Awards 2021 a new trailer of The Invincible, a game based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, was presented.

Michael Zegar, 14 October 2021, 22:04

Check out the first teaser for the game adaptation of the novel The Invincible. Fans of Kubrick's Space Odyssey should be overjoyed.

Przemyslaw Dygas, 13 October 2021, 12:45

Soon we will finally learn something more about the adventure based on Stanislaw Lem's novel. In 34 hours there will be a broadcast concerning Invincible.

Jacob Blazewicz, 25 August 2021, 17:53

How does the The Witcher compare to Project Windless, the action RPG from the creators of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds? The developers of Krafton's new game talked about this and the world of The Bird That Drinks Tears.

Jacob Blazewicz, 26 July 2021, 20:51

The success of The Witcher inspired many developers. Apparently, the list includes the creators of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, who are preparing an action RPG based on the license of Korean dark fantasy novels.

Milosz Szubert, 26 May 2021, 13:27

The first teaser of I, the Inquisitor, a video game based on dark fantasy novels by Polish author Jacek Piekara, appeared in the web. No release date was provided for the title for now.

Michal Ciezadlik, 09 April 2021, 15:58

Video game adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel The Invincible was supposed to debut in the second half of this year. However, devs at Starward Industries decided to chang plans - the release was delayed to 2022.

Karol Laska, 25 February 2021, 20:17

American McGee, creator of such titles as Alice: Madness Returns or Bad Day L.A., will create a game based on Wizard of Oz. The same project will include a TV series from Radar Pictures.

Karol Laska, 26 January 2021, 21:20

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum will be available a little later than we anticipated. In addition, Daedalic Entertainment is joining forces with Nacon so that the game can be developed smoothly.

Milosz Szubert, 30 November 2020, 17:04

At the end of last week, an early version of a Crusader Kings 3 mod titled The Way of Kings was released. Its action takes place in the fantasy world of Roshar created by Brandon Sanderson, known from the pages of The Stormlight Archive novels.

Paul Musiolik, 03 October 2020, 22:26

Based on Lem's novel, The Invincible will debut in the second half of 2021. The devs talk about the possibilities offered by the next-gen consoles and ensure that fans of narrative video games will be delighted.

Agnes Adamus, 15 September 2020, 17:13

On the 99th birthday of Stanislaw Lem, the video game The Invincible was announced, inspired by a 1964, hard sci-fi novel of the same title. It's in development by Starward Industries.

Adrian Werner, 24 June 2020, 16:53

The founder of Traveller's Tales showed fragments of gameplay from an abandoned project set in the universe of The Lord of the Rings. The creators spent over a million dollars on demos, but the publisher was not interested in the game.

Milosz Szubert, 15 January 2019, 10:43

During our conversation with Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the Metro book series, the topic of Andrzej Sapkowski was raised again. The Russian writer revealed that he simply feels sorry for the creator of The Witcher.

luckie, 19 April 2017, 13:50

Have the Witcher games boosted popularity of the original books or was it the other way around? Andrzej Sapkowski and Metro 2033 author have radically different opinions on that matter.