Codemasters has acquired the rights to produce a series of games based on the 14 million selling Ology book series, MCV can reveal. The deal with Templar Publishing will see the publisher convert best-selling encyclopaedia-style books such as Dragonology, Wizardology and Pirateology into games exclusively for the DS and Wii. …
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