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Things We Saw Today: Fan-Crafted Mario Kart 8 Nursery

Geek parents FTW!

by Maddy Myers Jul 20th

One super-crafty Nintendo fan has designed an impressive Mario Kart 8-themed nursery, following on the heels of beautifully designed Yoshi's Island and Zelda nurseries.

We Will No Longer Be Promoting HBO’s Game of Thrones

by Jill Pantozzi May 18th

The Mary Sue has decided we will no longer be actively promoting the HBO series Game of Thrones. Allow us to explain.

Game of Thrones To Return For Season 5 With All Male Writers, Directors

All men must thrive in male-dominated fields.

by Carolyn Cox Jul 16th

The complete list of directors and writers for Game of Thrones Season 5 was announced yesterday, and in a sadly unsurprising twist, no women will be involved in arguably the most important aspects of crafting the series. Maybe that's why white walkers only want baby boys--they're trying to give the ladies a fighting chance.

Game of Thrones Writer to Bring Death and Pain to Magic: The Gathering Movie

Someone's gonna die.

by Rebecca Pahle Jun 13th

Back when the Magic: The Gathering movie was first announced, Geekosystem's Victoria (now The Mary Sue's Victoria, because all your Geeko writers are belong to us) worried that it might turn out like Dungeons & Dragons or Battleship, other tabletop games that got the film treatment. Now we know that won't be the case, because neither Dungeons & Dragons nor Battleship have nearly enough incest.

The Mary Sue Interviews Game of Thrones Writer Bryan Cogman

Interview

by Jill Pantozzi Oct 26th

HBO's Game of Thrones is two seasons in and doesn't show any signs of slowing down soon. Fans of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series know just how much detail the author puts into his books, and how much is left out of the television show. Thankfully, viewers can now see even more of what went into the making of the Emmy Award-winning series with the new book, Inside HBO's Game of Thrones. The Mary Sue had the opportunity to speak with Game of Thrones writer Bryan Cogman, who spent countless hours putting the book together (really, you should thank him). See what he had to say about the project as well as his thoughts on the characters of Westeros.