Game of Thrones MMO announced

A browser-based Game of Thrones MMO is currently development, publisher Bigpoint has announced.

It's sharing development duties with Artplant - the same studio it teamed with on Battlestar Galactica Online.

All we know about the game so far is that it will be built using the Unity engine, though more details are expected out of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week.

See below for an early screenshot.

George R R Martin's acclaimed fantasy saga is set to besiege the public consciousness over the next few months - the second series of the HBO adaptation kicks off in the US in April, while an Atlus-published RPG is due out on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in May.