It’s a predictable tragedy, but a tragedy nonetheless: both of the recently-released Game of Thrones video games suck.
I’ll confess: I really wanted to start this review with a choice quote from George R R Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. “Winter is coming” is played, I just did a riff on “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow” the other week… maybe a less common one, like, “Jon Snow flexed his sword hand” or something.
Sometimes people will put things on the internet. Glorious things. Sometimes, we get to watch those things, and revel in the sheer depth and breadth of the world’s greatness.
As of today, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga has a new chapter. It’s not a chapter in a book, however, nor is it bonus footage from HBO’s wildly popular adaptation, Game of Thrones. Nope, it’s a video game.
I love a good Game of Thrones joke as much as the next guy. But this one, made by Twitter user iScoff, really does take the cake. The Twitter-cake. The cake of tweets.
Twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, fresh off their tag-team effort harping (is that even a verb?) the theme to Skyward Sword, return with their take on the intro to Game of Thrones.
When Cyanide Studio began working with George R R Martin on adapting a role-playing game from his fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, the Game of Thrones television series was “only a rumour.” That was seven years ago.
If you watch Game of Thrones or, particularly, have read George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books, you know that the characters really have a penchant for drinking beer in the morning. So much beer! Wine is for the afternoon and evening, but the early hours get beer.