Wanted screenwriter Chris Morgan has been appointed story director for Red Eagle Games' series of adaptations of Robert Jordan's 'The Wheel of Time' fantasy novels.

"As a massive fan of The Wheel of Time series, and a lifelong gamer, I jumped at the chance," said Morgan, who also wrote The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and is penning the upcoming Gears of War movie. "It's really a dream opportunity for me."

Red Eagle is planning several Wheel of Time games across every platform known to mankind under the EA Partners label, as well as an MMORPG for platforms unknown.

Morgan joins others including EA exec Tom Frisina and a branding expert on an advisory council to support Red Eagle's adaptations of Jordan's swords and sorcery series.

Electronic Arts will distribute Red Eagle Games' upcoming line of games inspired by Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time book series, the duo have announced.

Red Eagle is planning to transform the fantasy franchise into "a line of stand-alone games" for "all major videogame platforms," including PC and consoles, along with a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for unknown platforms.

All will be distributed through the EA Partners Label, which enables EA to pair with other third-party developers for publishing and distribution, including Valve, Harmonix, and id.

"The Wheel of Time series has a massive worldwide following and we're excited to help give Red Eagle Games' interactive products a blockbuster launch on the global stage," said EA Partners senior VP and general manager David DeMartini.

A series of games, including an MMO, will be made from the Wheel of Time book series by the late author Robert Jordan.

Red Eagle Entertainment, a California production company which holds the film, TV and video game rights to the series, has opened a subsidiary, Red Eagle Games to produce games that tie in to upcoming Wheel of Time movies, reports VentureBeat.

"We expect to have a game based on every movie, and we expect no less than three movies, though that depends on how well each does," said Red Eagle co-founder Rick Selvage.

Aside from the movie tie-ins, Red Eagle also plans to develop an MMO set in Wheel of Time's fantasy universe.

According to the report, the company intends to release Wheel of Time games on "all major platforms: the consoles, personal computers, handhelds and wireless devices." It would not be the first Wheel of Time game released, as a 1999 PC Wheel of Time title was released by Legend.

Red Eagle will develop the games in-house, but the company currently lacks developers. Selvage and co-founder Larry Mondragon, both former IBM executives, have "identified key game developers" and plan to start hiring "in the coming months."

"We want to hire the rock stars," Selvage offered.

Battle.net is once again hosting a new bonus map for Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. Titled Deadfall, the small sized map is recommended for 1v1 or 2v2 matches.

Blizzard's Bill Roper is a popular man nowadays, and he's been interviewed to talk about Warcraft3 again, this time on Gaming-Unlimited.

The Wheel of Time site has been updated again, and besides a slew of other topics, there is a new Direct3D patch for the game. Thanks to Frans @ Blues News.

The Wheel of Time page has a new update from Glen Dahlgren which mentions the next game they are developing and a few extra details on the latest WoT patch that was released.

There's a new Wheel of Time patch on the WoT Download page. It fixes the movie and ,usic problems that slipped into the 333 patch, and fixes a crash problem when disguise was used in multiplay.

To followup the Wheel of Time patch that was released yesterday, the official Legend WoT page has been updated with some new arena levels for download which look cool.

No Soldier of Fortune demo just yet guys, but the Wheel of Time patch has been released by GTInteractive. You can grab the patch at this location The list of changes to the game is pretty extensive with all kinds of multiplayer tweaks and a bunch of technical mumbo-jumbo that we probably dont need to know. Thanks Frans for the headsup.

Keep your eyes open for a patch release for Wheel of Time today, according to this thread on a messageboard. Thanks Rick Gibson.

Legend's Glen Dahlgren did a massive update to the Wheel of Time news page, which includes a big list of fixes and features in the upcoming 310 patch (about in the middle of the update).

ZzzzZzz...Go back to bed spanky, because today is boring as hell. Got a few items that you might be interested in though.

- Wheel of Time News has been updated again by Glenn Dahlgren.
- NVNews Q3 Tune-Up Guide to give you those few extra fps
- Vampire: Masquerade art and screenshots on The Vault Network.

3DFXGamers has an interview with Legend's Glen Dahlgren talking about of course, Wheel of Time.

The Wheel of Time page has some updated status on the patch for the game that the Legend guys are currently working on.

The "sweet-ass" Voodoo Extreme guys have been doing the nasty thing with Scott Dalton of Legend, and you can check the result here. Of course they talk about Wheel of Time, and other general game-development related items.

Legend's Matthias Worch has posted the second part of his Wheel of Time strategy guide on this website.

Legend's Matthias Worch has posted the first part of his Wheel of Time strategy guide on his own site.

Here's a list of mirrors for you who didn't pick up the Wheel of Time demo yet:

FilePlanet

WON

Italian mirror

3DFiles.com

Wheel of Time.com

Unreal Universe

So, anyone who played it care to share their comments on the demo with modem users who aren't to sure on getting this 74mb thing? Oh yeah don't forget to get the Direct 3D patch to fix D3D performance.

CGO has some first impressions of Wheel of Time, Legend's Unreal-engine game that just came out. No rock or suck yet, just showing what Wheel of Time has to offer.