Four of the six Michael Moorcock books on Elric of Melnibone.
Four of the six Michael Moorcock books on Elric of Melnibone.
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Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné will get its first narrative action game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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It’s been 60 years since the publication of Michael Moorcock’s novel Elric of Melniboné, which became the foundation for a legendary dark fantasy series. And the fantasy saga is finally getting the video game treatment, as Runatyr has acquired the rights to make a computer game based on the first six books of the Elric saga.

I’m very excited to see this since I read the Elric series decades ago as well as many of the titles in Moorcock’s Eternal Champion series. The same is true for Yasin Hillborg, creative director at Runatyr, who talked to me about his long dream to turn the series into a video game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.