Wednesday 27 September 2006
Sonic creator Sega has acquired the rights to develop games based 🐽on th🍎e upcoming His Dark Materials fantasy movie trilogy, Hollywood mag Variety has reported.

While games-from-films-from-books are all the rage at the moment - whether it's EA's Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter games, or Vivendi's Chronicles of Narnia and Eragon titles - we're excited to see Sega continue to branch out with its game choices (and we're pretty fond of the💫 books, too).

Hopefully the games will draw more out of the books' rich universe than a standard hack-and-slash adventure but that may rest on how well the movies turn out - Sega only has the right⛦s to make games from the film versions, as opposed to the universe of the books itself.

The first Sega-published game, The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights to European readers), is currently under development and will be released with the film at the end ofꦗ next year.