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Hot on the heels of the successful House of the Dragon, HBO is further expanding the Game of Thrones universe with another prequel series. The house has officially announced a spinoff series exploring the historical event of Aegon Targaryen's conquest, which established the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. Acclaimed screenwriter Mattson Tomlin, known for his work on The Batman Part II, will pen the series. Aegon's Conquest serves as a direct forerunner to the popular television series House of the Dragon. HBO teams up…

Marvel Snap is one of the best collectible card games this side of vanilla Hearthstone, and it’s getting a new feature players have been asking for since the release of Battle Mode. During Summer Game Fest, Marvel Snap frontman Ben Brode announced the all-new Conquest mode would be launching on June 13th.“For our most competitive, high-skilled players, we wanted to give them the ultimate challenge with Conquest,” he said in a press release. “Players can now find out who truly is the best of the best and worthy of ultimate…

In the future, Earth has won a gruelling war against an extraterrestrial civilisation. As a monument to human resilience and his own awesomeness, an egotistical billionaire plans to build an enormous residential tower out of a unique kind of rock mined from the alien homeworld. The rock is black and gives off a curious warmth. But what if it is also alive?So goes the story of The Tower, the central chapter of Nina Allan’s brilliantly ludic novel, which is presented as an extract of a novel of the same name, written by a…

Image: HBOThe Game of Thrones prequel may be about to get a prequel. Varietyhas reported HBO is in active discussions to make another series based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, this time set even earlier in the timeline than the current prequel, House of the Dragon. If made, however, it’ll still star a Targaryen—specifically, Aegon I, the Targaryen who first conquered Westeros.You Should Really Watch The Last of UsAegon the Conquerer, as he was aptly titled, lived around 100 years before…

Conquer the nodes Wargroove is back with its sequel Wargroove 2, a surprise follow-up that returns to the tile-based tactics. And while it’s hitting many of the same notes as its predecessor, we got to go hands-on with its new spin on turn-based warfare: the Conquest mode. The Conquest mode is one of Wargroove 2‘s big new features. It’s a roguelike approach to battles that follows a familiar structure if you’ve ever played other styles of roguelike. Yet for all the familiarity of this concept, it wound up being a pretty…

This Small Press Spotlight is starting off the New Year with an upcoming book soon to hit Kickstarter. Last Ride of the 4 Horsemen: Conquest is the next chapter in the steampunk horror tale from Flatline Comics. Check out the details below: The next grandiose chapter in the Conquest arc drops on Kickstarter in just over two weeks, and it’s your chance to catch up on the entire saga, from the complete, 112-page  Last Ride of the 4 Horsemen graphic novel (including 24 pages of origin stories) to all three issues of …

In the eighth century C.E., an English monk named Bede wrote the history of the island, saying Rome’s decline in about 400 C.E. opened the way to an invasion from the east. Angle, Saxon, and Jute tribes from what is today northwestern Germany and southern Denmark “came over into the island, and they began to increase so much, that they became terrible to the natives.” But in the later 20th century, many archaeologists suspected Bede, writing centuries later, had exaggerated the…