User talk:Bchwood

The Cyanide computer game
Hi Bchwood,

Thanks for your contributions to the wiki, they are much-appreciated. Cyanide are working on two ASoIaF computer games, a strategy game using several different wars from the history of Westeros, and an RPG set during the events of the book flipping between two characters, a southern nobleman and a member of the Night's Watch. Both look interesting. However, these games are based on the books, not the HBO TV series, and we are not covering them on this wiki with their own entries. HBO, whom we are consulting about this wiki, are keen that people do not mistake things based on the books with the TV series due to copyright issues (we probably need to change the logo of the wiki as well, since it's currently based on the computer game). The Wiki of Ice and Fire is the correct place for articles about the computer games, though we have also talked about re-purposing the old book Wikia as a merchandising wiki (and could also cover the wargame, board game, card game and pen-and-paper RPG as well). Posting a personal blog entry about the computer games here is fine, but we have to be careful about copyright: you have quoted pretty much the entire article from IGN, which is copyrighted. That's only okay if we have permission from IGN to do that.

Don't want to be a downer, especially after your hard work, but since this wiki is known to HBO and we have their permission to use screencaps and promo images, we also need to respect their copyright concerns.--Werthead 14:56, May 7, 2011 (UTC)