A new video game set during the events of HBO’s “ Game of Thrones ” is set to launch in 2026 from PlaySide Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive .

The game, which was announced Friday out of Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, marks the first big move Warner Bros. Discovery has made in the gaming space with one of its IPs since former Warner Bros. games chief David Haddad exited earlier this year.

Titled “ Game of Thrones: War for Westeros ,” the project is a PC real-time strategy game that will also be “drawing inspiration” directly from George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels, the source material for HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”

Per the game’s description, “In ‘War for Westeros,’ players will lead the armies of House Stark, House Lannister, House Targaryen, or the Night

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