Kit Harington is Call of Duty's new villain
Jon Snow isn't one of the good guys anymore.
Game of Thrones actor Kit Harington is trying his hand at starring in video games. Activision confirmed Friday he would be the villain for the next game in the Call of Duty franchise: Infinite Warfare.
Harington takes center stage in an "epic showdown between good and evil," Activision said. The Thrones star was shown briefly in a motion capture studio in an accompanying Facebook video.
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Also involved in this year's Call of Duty story is director Guy Ritchie, who is consulting with studio Infinity Ward.
We had guessed Harington was playing some part in Infinite Warfare after a video surfaced Wednesday of him inside a motion-capture rig. That was the same rig we saw NFL star Marshawn Lynch appear in last year, for his role in Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare comes to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on Nov. 4.
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Chelsea Stark was the Games Editor for Mashable, where she covered everything from AAA titles, mainstream consoles, indie gems, mobile games and gaming culture. She handled news, feature stories and reviews. Before that, Chelsea was Mashable's Multimedia Producer, where she helped develop visual storytelling aids, whether they were photos of video. She came to New York in 2010 to pursue her master's degree in journalism at NYU's Studio 20 program, which focused on innovation as journalism is changed by new technology. Before coming to New York, Chelsea lived in Austin, where she did online journalism and social media for the local CBS affiliate. She loves good beer, classic Nintendo games, and all things geeky, and spends her time attempting to find anything close to good Tex-Mex in Brooklyn.
