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#gameofthrones Be warned, there are spoilers ahead. Not that people die in the second series of HBO's adaptation. That's, uh, kind of the point. But some of the deaths are kinda important. More »

#gameofthrones I can think of a lot worse things for two bored British kids to be doing than reciting the intro theme to Game of Thrones using ocarina music from the N64 Zelda games. More »

#gameofthrones Violinist Lindsey Stirling has gained a ton of well-earned renown for her truly epic rendition of the Legend of Zelda music, a performance immortalized when Olympic gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas used it during her floor routine. More »

#gameofthrones I'm not normally a fan of Funko's Pop! figures, being as they're just another take on older, existing styles like Munnys, but that was a view formulated before they got the rights to make some Game of Thrones pieces. More »

#gameofthrones Darrin Crescenzi works as a designer at Nike, where he's done stuff like the Dream Team's uniform for the recent London Olympics. Another thing he's done recently that's even cooler is this redesign of the family crests from George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series. More »

#gameofthrones The first five seconds are absolute terror. You reach for the stop button. But then...then you find your foot tapping. Your head nodding. And damn it, for the 1000th time, you've enjoyed a cat-related nerd video when you know you should know better. More »

#gameofthrones Dark Horse will next year be releasing this statue based on the Game of Thrones TV series, featuring the likeness of Tyrion Lannister, who is played by Peter Dinklage. More »

#gameofthrones Like Kirk, I'm a fiend for the Game of Thrones board game. The treachery, the balance, it's one of the best tabletop experiences I've ever had. Still, there's always room for improvement! More »

#theannalsofslapcrap Done right, the well regarded FX biker gang series Sons of Anarchy would seem to be a natural fit for a game adaptation. It's got guns, violence, antiheroes and a natural open-world setting. Doing it right, however, takes a lot of money and commitment. That is is why the series is getting "NO TRACTION" toward a video game, says creator Kurt Sutter, who long ago promised any SoA game wouldn't be "some slapcrap browser thing." More »

#offtopic There aren't too many TV series that I'd go out and actually buy a book about, but HBO's Game of Thrones is one of them. This mini-documentary about the making of a book highlighting the work of the art teams that bring George R.R. Martin's world to life has sold me. More »

#gameofthrones Set to Jason Segel's You Just Got Slapped, this emotional clip tips a cap to the brave men and women who have risked life and limb to slap the truly awful Prince Joffrey in the face (or throw shit at him). More »

#spoilers Game of Thrones has always opened itself up to some creative cosplay, but this one really takes the cake. Not only does it capture two characters from the books, it immortalizes one of the most iconic moments from the second book/season. More »

#art We've seen some of Roberto Flores' art on Kotaku before. He's the guy who did those amazing Game of Thrones fighting game illustrations. We're not looking at (many of) those tonight, though. Tonight, we're looking at his other awesome pics, video game-related or otherwise. More »

#crusaderkingsii It's not like I wasn't in love with Crusader Kings II enough as it was, but ever since the wonderful Game of Thrones mod for the grand strategy title turned up, it's been destroying my social life. More »

#gameofthrones Tragically, this custom Xbox 360 isn't available in stores. It's just part of a competition HBO and Microsoft are running, where the wording makes it sound like there's only one of these babies available. More »

#gameofthrones Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms is the third official game to be based on George R R Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, after a terrible RTS and a disappointing RPG. More »

#gameofthrones While you naturally think about them while reading the books/watching the show - I mean, they're right there - it's not until you see them mapped out in graphs that you realise just how messed up the death rates (and incest rates, and boring food-eating rates) are in the realm of Westeros. More »

#offtopic YouTube user Weave613 has an interesting skill of Game of Thrones impersonations. More »

#minecraft Last week, when we showed you those crazy photos from the ongoing project to re-create the world of Game of Thrones in Minecraft, people had a ton of questions. More »

#gameofthrones YouTube user Joel935M was fooling around with rotoscoping in After Effects and picked a duel from Game of Thrones as a test case. A hundred thousand views later, he's beset by demands to rotoscope other fight scenes from the show. More »

#minecraft Ever wanted to explore the world of Game of Thrones? Ever wanted to explore the world of Game of Thrones... in Minecraft? More »

#gameofthrones It's the fake intro and menu system for a C64 adaptation of Game of Thrones that lures you into this clip, but once there, it's the music that really kicks your ass. More »

#minecraft This is truly unreal. More »

#gameofthrones By now of course you've seen College Humor's 16-bit re-creation of Game of Thrones season 1. More »

Game of Thrones games will continue until every last remaining dark corner of Westeros has been illuminated by the lord of cutscenes. It has been prophesied! Next to leap aboard George R. R. Martin and HBO’s blood’n’sex bandwagon is serial MMO-maker Bigpoint, who follow up their Battlestar Galactica free to play massively multiplayer with Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms.(more…)

#gameofthrones Last week, I wrote about the 72 Pins collection of amazing custom NES art, done in a classic style and affixed to real NES cartridges. They looked plenty cool in pictures on the 72 Pins site, but I didn't anticipate that they'd be so cool-looking in real life. More »

#fineart Cyril Tahmassebi is a French concept artist and visual designer who has worked on games like Darkworks, I'm Alive, Project Kane and, most recently, Dishonored and Cyanide's Game of Thrones RPG. More »

Yesterday, I mind-melded with CD Projekt CEO and owner of the most victorious last name ever, Marcin Iwinski, on all things Cyberpunk. Also, DRM. However, with those topics covered and safely underneath fluffy wordblankets of information, the conversation weaved its way toward the next natural stop. I’m speaking, of course, of Westeros. Read on for Iwinski’s thoughts concerning parallels between The Witcher and Game of Thrones, the male-driven nature of geek culture, and where E3′s utterly archaic reliance on booth babes and titillation fits into that.  

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#gameofthrones Like Cheers, Family Guy and, uh, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones is so wildly popular that the idea of a spin-off TV series isn't as crazy as you might think. Especially when you remember the franchise already kind of has a spin-off already. More »

#openthread Greetings, Kotaku, and welcome to the Tuesday open thread. More »