Warner Bros. and HBO Announce New Game of Thrones: Dragonfire Video Game

Warner Bros. Games has announced Game of Thrones: Dragonfire, a caller free-to-play mobile strategy crippled acceptable during the epoch of House of the Dragon.

Set to alert onto iPhones and Android devices aboriginal this year, fans tin present pre-register their involvement for bonuses erstwhile the crippled does yet land. There's besides a slick-looking CGI trailer featuring the likeness of Emma D'Arcy, amended known arsenic Rhaenyra Targaryen, hatching dragon eggs and moving her forces astir a representation of the Seven Kingdoms.

"Only occurrence and humor volition assertion the Iron Throne," the Targaryen says. "The humor of the dragon present awakens successful you. Seize your destiny, articulation the fray, conquer — oregon burn." The trailer ends with a little snippet of gameplay, showing a dragon flitting astir a castle, mounting it aflame.

"Game of Thrones: Dragonfire introduces a fresh, strategical attack to conquering the Seven Kingdoms done tile-based warfare acceptable during an epoch defined by the powerfulness of dragons," reads a blurb connected the game's authoritative website. "Drawing inspiration from events portrayed successful House of the Dragon, players volition acquisition a caller communicative arsenic a Valyrian descendant tasked with hatching and raising dragons, gathering and commanding armies, forming alliances and factions, and engaging successful tactical battles to go the ascendant unit successful Westeros."

While you'll beryllium playing arsenic a caller character, the website includes quality profiles for immoderate much acquainted faces — suggesting that you'll beryllium capable to hitch shoulders with Rhaenyra and Aemond Targaryen, arsenic good arsenic Corlys Velaryon and Alicent Hightower.

More elaborate blogs uncover that the crippled volition diagnostic eight-week seasons, known arsenic Reigns, each of which volition diagnostic campaigns and events. These tin physique to a large communicative bushed specified arsenic invading King's Landing, with the extremity effect of a run strengthening your dragon brood for aboriginal battles.

Pre-registration is present live, with immoderate ambitious-sounding targets. At 1 cardinal pre-registrations, six banner shaper sigils volition beryllium unlocked for players erstwhile the crippled launches. At 2 million, players volition get 1,000 Runic Fragments. At 5 million, players volition unlock 2 avatars. And astatine 10 million, the Dawnseeker dragon volition beryllium granted.

House of the Dragon primitively launched successful 2022, and volition adjacent proceed with the debut of its 3rd play sometime successful June. After that, the amusement volition wrapper up its communicative with a 4th season, expected successful 2028. For more, cheque retired our 7/10 reappraisal of Season 2, and past larn astir the behind-the-scenes tensions betwixt Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin and the series' showrunners. Maybe they should each beryllium down for a affable crippled of Dragonfire?

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