• Audio Commentaries (Discs 1-5):
  • "Dark Wings, Dark Words" with writer Vanessa Taylor, director Daniel Minahan, and actors Jack Gleeson and Natalie Dormer
  • "Walk of Punishment" with executive producers/writers/directors David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
  • "Walk of Punishment" with production designer Gemma Jackson and costume designer Michele Clapton
  • "And Now His Watch Is Ended" with director Alex Graves and actors Lena Headey and Diana Rigg
  • "Kissed by Fire" with writer Bryan Cogman and actors Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Gwendoline Christie
  • "The Climb" with director Alik Sakharov and actors Kit Harington and Rose Leslie
  • "The Climb" with actors Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams and Isaac Hempstead Wright
  • "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" with co- executive producer/author George R.R. Martin and director Michelle MacLaren
  • "Second Sons" with MacLaren and actors John Bradley and Hannah Murray
  • "The Rains of Castamere" with director David Nutter and actors Richard Madden and Michelle Fairley
  • "The Rains of Castamere" with weapons master Tommy Dunne, stunt coordinator Paul Herbert, assistant stunt coordinator David Forman and swordmaster C.C. Smiff
  • "Mhysa" with actors Emilia Clarke, Iain Glen and Iwan Rheon.

• In-Episode Guide (Discs 1-5, HD): Each episode features an on-screen guide interface that allows fans to learn more about the characters, lands and histories of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond. "Characters" and "Location" buttons deliver simple pop-up text and factoids, making each rather bland. The "Histories" button, though, is more worthwhile, as it leads to simple but strikingly animated videos that detail the legends of Westeros and Essos, as told by the characters themselves. These varying perspectives offer insight into key houses, religions and important events relevant to the third season.

• A Gathering Storm (Disc 1, HD, 14 minutes): Those looking for a refresher course on the events and betrayals that've led to Season Three should begin with "A Gathering Storm," a carefully constructed overview peppered with actor interviews that succinctly touches on every major plot point and development thus far.

• New Characters (Disc 1, HD, 10 minutes): Introducing Game of Thrones' incoming freshman class, among them Olenna Tyrell, Missandel, Mance Rayder, Tormund Giantsbane, Orell, Jojen and Meera Reed, Blackfish and Edmure Tully, Thoros of Myr and Beric Dondarrion.

• The Rains of Castamere Unveiled (Disc 4, HD, 47+ minutes): An in-depth, Maximum Movie Mode-esque Picture-in- Picture experience that can be played alongside the third season's most crucial, most emotionally taxing and most jaw-dropping episode, "The Rains of Castamere," in all its gory, gutsy glory. In addition to cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other materials, an icon appears at various intervals that allows fans to access even more content and scene- specific videos.

• Deleted and Extended Scenes (Disc 5, HD, minutes): Five scenes are available: "Jon Meets Mance," "Edmure, Robb and The Blackfish," "Tywin and Pycelle," "Small Council Discusses Wildling Threat" and "Jon Thinks About Escaping." Each one is well worth watching and could have easily been retained had time allowed. "Tywin and Pycelle" is particularly good...

• Histories & Lore (Disc 5, HD): The third season's animated "Histories & Lore" videos -- specifically those pertaining to Westeros' history and mythology -- cover everything from the Battle of Qohor to the Vale. Segments include:
  • Old Ghis & Slaver's Bay (Jorah Mormont )
  • House Reed (Meera Reed)
  • House Bolton (Roose Bolton)
  • House Frey (Catelyn Stark)
  • House Tully (The Blackfish)
  • The Lord of Light (Thoros of Myr)
  • Wargs and the Sight (Bran Stark)
  • The Red Keep (King Joffrey)
  • Robert's Rebellion (Petyr Baelish and Lord Varys)
  • The North (Jon Snow)
  • The Reach (Margaery Tyrell)
  • The Riverlands (The Blackfish)
  • The Stormlands (Brienne of Tarth)
  • The Westerlands (Tywin Lannister)
  • The Vale (Petyr Baelish)

• Roots of Westeros (Disc 5, HD): This sister-guide delves into the interweaving relationships, alliances, rivalries and feuds that stand between the various Houses of Westeros, again via "Histories & Lore" animated segments narrated by the series' main characters.

• Inside the Wildlings (Disc 5, HD, 6 minutes): Returning to the land of production featurettes, "Inside the Wildlings" gives the cast and crew a chance to discuss the Wildlings, their culture and their lifestyle, as well as their portrayal in the series.

• The Politics of Marriage (Disc 5, HD, 9 minutes): Power grabs and politics: the art of love in Westeros.

Summers span
decades. Winters can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron
Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds
plots, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; and
all the way to the frozen north, where an 800-foot wall of ice protects
the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond. Kings and queens,
knights and renegades, liars, lords, and honest men...all will play the
Game of Thrones.