Reigns: Game of Thrones has characters that respond to your Face ID.
Reigns: Game of Thrones has characters that respond to your Face ID.
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Reigns: Game of Thrones uses Apple’s face recognition to determine trust or deceit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In the upcoming Reigns: Game of Thrones for iOS, you have to know who to trust. Should you ally yourself with Tyrion Lannister or Daenerys Targaryen? If you happen to have one of the new Apple iPhone X devices — the X, the XS, or the XS Max — you may have a better chance.

The face-tracking abilities, dubbed Face ID, can bring you deeper into the game, as characters who trust you will lock their gaze directly on your eyes, even as you tilt the device. The suspicious characters will look away from you, according to a blog post by Apple.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.