Games

A round-up of some recent news about Game of Thrones and the books it is based on. First up, HBO has found its Riverrun . With filming of Season 3 of the show now entering its second month, shooting is focusing on the ancestral castle of House Tully. Gosford Castle in County Armagh is standing in for the castle, apparently with both exteriors and interiors being filmed there. Looks like an excellent match for the castle from the books, though presumably the Red Fork and Tumblestone rivers will be added later with CGI. George R.R. Martin has also conducted an in-depth interview with the Spanish ASoIaF website Asshai.com . Martin's interviews for several years have focused on the TV series and very general questions, so it's good to see a plot and character-focused exchange like this one. Note that there will be spoilers for those who have not yet read A Dance with Dragons . In a separate interview Martin has also stated that he now has 200 completed and semi-finalised manusc...

HBO have announced that a companion book for the Game of Thrones TV series will be released in the autumn. Inside HBO's Game of Thrones is a volume that mixes fictional background details with behind-the-scenes information, maps, family trees and interviews with castmembers. The book is 192 pages long and will feature over 300 colour photographs and illustrations, along with eight gatefold images. The book is written by Bryan Cogman, the show's 'keeper of the mythos' and writer of two episodes of the TV series. George R.R. Martin supplies a preface and showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss an introduction. The book will be published on 19 September this year by Chronicle Books in the USA. It will be available in the UK via the British HBO merchandise site . The book should not be confused with The World of Ice and Fire , an in-universe companion volume to the book series, which will likely be published in 2013.