The Names of the Great Houses of Westeros, Explained

by Sebastian Zimmermann
I first discovered George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire when I was a teenager. I hadn't read much fantasy, but I had eagerly devoured The...

The 25 Best Fighters on Game of Thrones, Ranked

by Richard E Preston
One year ago, we put together a list of the 15 best fighters on Game of Thrones. With season 7 not under our belt, we're revisiting and expanding...

Take the Black—We pour over the first footage from season 8

by Dan Selcke
Welcome to Take the Black Live, the chat show where we dig into the latest Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire news in far too much...

Funnies: Let's play around with the new season 8 footage

Bid on a signed Advanced Reading Copy of A Game of Thrones

by Corey Smith
fan Sean Shepard was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer named Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. With help from his friend...

Sound designer Paula Fairfield talks season 8 battle scenes

by Corey Smith
Sound designer Paula Fairfield has been working on Game of Thrones since its third season, responsible for bringing us everything from the roars...

Win a chance to attend HBO's Emmy afterparty with Lena Heady

by Dan Selcke
The 2018 Emmys are fast approaching, and for the fourth time running, Lena Headey is nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress in a Drama...

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau teases a satisfying, surprising ending

by David Harris (Razor)
By now, unless you've been living in a cave with no WiFi, you probably know that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was nominated for an Emmy for his role as...

Let's overanalyze the first new footage from season 8

by Corey Smith
Our long night is over, Game of Thrones fans: HBO has given us our first official glimpse of season 8...all three seconds of it, bundled into a...