Wheel of Time Games expands leadership team with 3 veterans

Wheel of Time Games announced the addition of three game industry veterans to beef up its game studio in Montreal. The additions happen as the company is creating a studio of 200 to 300 people to build a triple-A, open world, role-playing game set in the Wheel of Time universe. Craig Alexander, studio head of Wheel of Time Games, the Montreal-based studio developing the title, appointed Lori Hyrup as studio design director, John Lindemuth as studio art director, and Steve Gray as studio technology director. Reporting to Alexander, the trio brings decades of high-level experience and creative expertise to the ambitious project. Lori Hyrup is working on the narrative on the Wheel of Time game. Wheel of Time Games (spelled iwot games by the company) is a division of iwot studios, which leads a transmedia strategy to bring The Wheel of Time to life across games, film, and television. The novels by Robert Jordan have sold over 100 million copies, with the final seven installments all to ... Read full article.