Westworld

Westworld’s mobile game trailer highlights animated violence

HBO’s popular Westworld drama is getting a mobile game, and it won’t be as cartoony as the game looks. A new trailer from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment shows that the game will have cartoon animations but also show the same kind of violence as is present in the TV show.

The trailer above (provided exclusively to GamesBeat) doesn’t show blood, but it does show the consequences of gunfights, massacres, and the collection of dead host (android) bodies throughout the landscape of the game, which debuts on Android and Apple’s iOS tomorrow, though it is out in selective Android territories today. In that sense, the cartoon mobile game doesn’t deviate much from the theme of violence — and why or why not humans have the right to perpetrate it on androids — in the TV show.

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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.