If you were ever worried that mobile games weren't tough enough, worry no more. Kuju Wireless has acquired the licence to create and publish games with best-selling author and ex-SAS soldier Andy McNab.
The 5-year, worldwide agreement with McNab allows Kuju to create and publish mobile products incorporating the name of Andy McNab. McNab will provide the company’s game designers with his wealth of knowledge of covert operations.
Kevin Holloway, Managing Director, Kuju Wireless Publishing commented, "We are delighted to have signed this agreement with such a prominent author and one of the UK’s most highly decorated soldiers. We’ll be announcing more details on the games themselves in the coming months."
Andy McNab said, "I'm very excited to be working with Kuju. We are going to make some great games together."
Suffice to say, we're hugely looking forward to some gritty SAS action and let's hope the games are good, because, quite frankly, we're not brave enough to give them a bad mark!
In the absence of further details, here's some McNab facts to savour.
McNab Facts:
Andy McNab joined the SAS in 1984 and was involved in covert and overt special operations worldwide.
Andy McNab isn't err Andy McNab's real name - that's had to be kept top secret for security reasons.
During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer ‘will remain in regimental history forever’.
Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army’s most highly decorated serving soldier when he left the SAS.
His books include Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action, both based on his own life and experiences and a number of best-selling novels including, most recently, Deep Black and Boy Soldier.
He is also a regular newspaper columnist and lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.
He knows 18 ways to kill a man with a mobile phone (although we might have made that up)
Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the best-seller lists following the lifting of an ex-parte injuction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1996. Immediate Action has sold over 1 million copies in the UK to date.
Outside of writing, McNab was technical weapons advisor and trainer on the hit Michael Mann film Heat (1995) and spent five months in Hollywood working closely with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer. As well as advising on weapons handling and use, McNab was drafted in to work out in detail how master-thief De Niro would go about pulling off robberies on an armoured car and a bank, and how cop Al Pacino would go about tracking him down and stopping him.
McNab was a major contributor to the BBC2 Timewatch documentary on Hannibal (1996), which was fronted by General Norman Schwarzkopf, and was also the advisor and narrator on BMG's Ultimate Warrior video. The first McNab computer game will also be released this Autumn.
Also a director of a Hereford based security company, McNab developed and runs a specialist training course for news crews, journalists and members of non-governmental organisations working in hostile environments (including war zones). The course is currently the only one if its kind in the world.
