Game of Thrones is one of the hottest fantasy entertainment properties, and that’s been good for Disruptor Beam. The Framingham, Mass.-based social-mobile game studio has had more than 6 million people play its Game of Thrones: Ascent social game over time. And today, the company announced its first expansion, The Long Night, for the mobile-social game.
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The Game of Thrones free-to-play role-playing title has benefited from the popularity of the highly rated HBO television series, Game of Thrones, and author George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books that inspired the show. The TV show has had an average gross audience of 18.6 million viewers for its fourth season, beating the pay-TV network’s record that The Sopranos set.
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