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March 29, 2012

Interactive Game of Thrones calm comes to HBO Go iPad app

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ENGAGE ON THE GO WITH GAME OF THRONES® SEASON 2

GROUNDBREAKING INTERACTIVE VIEWING EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO GO® LAUNCHES FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE iPAD®, APRIL 1

New York, N.Y., Mar 29, 2012 – On Apr 1, Game of Thrones fans will have a possibility to watch their favorite uncover like never before when a HBO GO interactive observation knowledge becomes accessible for a initial time on a HBO GO iPad app. The Game of Thrones interactive elements on HBO GO concede viewers to rivet with strange facilities combined exclusively for a service, by examination full-length episodes of a array alongside an “alert feed” display never-before-seen reward content. Previously accessible usually online during HBOGO.com, a interactive observation knowledge will turn accessible on a HBO GO iPad app commencement with a deteriorate 2 premiere part of Game of Thrones on Apr 1 during 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, featuring special enhancements designed exclusively for a iPad.

Interactive observation of Game of Thrones deteriorate 2 on a iPad provides an even some-more immersive and sparkling knowledge for audiences, giving them an elegant, discerning approach to try a universe of Westeros. In landscape mode, a few taps of a shade enables a “alert feed” that appears only next a episode, job out applicable calm timed to specific scenes. As users rivet with reward content, a part above is automatically paused until a user closes a underline and a part automatically resumes play. Users can also navigate around a feed, scrolling behind or brazen in time.

Special calm in a warning feed includes:

· Cast/crew commentaries with David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, George R.R. Martin, and more

· Behind a scenes interviews with a expel and crew

· Descriptions of new characters as they come into a scene

· Info alerts providing behind stories on specific scenes and impression relationships

· Detailed set photos and judgment art from a array pattern team

· Quotes from array that can be common by amicable media

· A map with pivotal locations pinpointed

· A beam to Game of Thrones houses

Interactive facilities that are disdainful to a knowledge on a iPad embody amicable functionality–the ability to post standing updates to Facebook and Twitter directly while watching. Viewers can also select to watch a array in mural course on a iPad that enables them to crop locations and characters during part playback. In mural mode, a passable map of Westeros and Essos is always manifest next a “alert feed” and a “Guide to Houses” couple drives users to perspective family trees and profiles for all of a array characters.

Click a couple next for a glance of a Game of Thrones interactive observation knowledge on HBO GO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY9yLqwEt2M

HBO GO can be accessed during HBOGO.com, or around a HBO GO app – now accessible for download on Apple’s iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch® and countless intelligent phones regulating Google’s Android™ handling complement as good as platforms such as Xbox 360, Samsung Smart TV™ and Roku – and is giveaway of assign to HBO subscribers by participating radio providers. For those who haven’t gifted a memorable illusory universe of Westeros, a whole initial deteriorate of Game of Thrones can also be found on HBO GO. Follow HBO GO on Twitter at: @HBOGO.

Based on a renouned book array “A Song of Ice and Fire,” by George R.R. Martin, a Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning anticipation array Games of Thrones chronicles an epic onslaught for energy set in a immeasurable and aroused anticipation kingdom. Among a returning members of a garb expel are Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Emmy® leader Peter Dinklage, Michelle Fairley, Lena Headey and Kit Harington. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss executive produce.

Games of Thrones Season 2 premieres Sunday, Apr 1 during 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, exclusively on HBO.

Article source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/29/interactive-game-of-thrones-content-comes-to-hbo-go-ipad-app/

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