The Lost Vikings: The first generation of Blizzard game

Let's take a look at The Lost Vikings: The first generation of Blizzard game

The Lost Vikings (1992)

Three’s company

System requirements: DOS 3.1, Intel 80386SX CPU, 640KB RAM

The Lost Vikings wasn’t the start of Blizzard as a company, but it was the first game Blizzard released on PC. Blizzard was still called Silicon & Synapse for its first three games, and it wasn’t until Warcraft: Orcs & Humans that the company really went all-in on developing for the PC, though Lost vikings helped lay the groundwork for that. The game’s levels were created using a program called CED, a cell editor made by CEO Mike Morhaime that Blizzard used to lay out levels, which later went on to be the basis of the Warcraft and StarCraft map editor. Take a quick look at funny pictures with captions that can help you reduce stress quickly.

Blizzard was also hired by Interplay Productions to create a scripting engine for developing platformers, which it then used for nearly all of its SNES games. But Morhaime recalled to us that Blizzard got much more use out of it than Interplay. “I think in the amount of time we did all those games, maybe they did one or two,” Morhaime said. “We were a lot faster with it.” But having a larger company help fund their engine development boosted the still relatively small team, at that point only a dozen or so people total.

Even if the studio wasn’t under a different name at the time, it would be easy to forget that Blizzard made The Lost Vikings. Its sequel in 1997 was the last platformer the studio ever made, and I only realized the connection when the game’s bumblingly heroic trio was resurrected for Heroes of the Storm. But even this early on, you can see traces of that distinct Blizzard style peek through. The bright colors and exaggerated proportions would let its characters fit right in with the Warcraft series, and the contrast of ye olden swords and shields with a sci-fi setting is oddly prophetic of Blizzard’s future ventures.

Samwise Didier, art director of Blizzard, in Blizzard 20th anniversary video

“When I started on Lost Vikings, there were about 100 vikings you could control. Some that would raise up ladders, some that would throw torches, all that sort of thing. It was very PC game oriented. … We decided to make it a little more friendly for the Super Nintendo, so we dropped it down to five characters, then to four, then to three.” Check out my list of fun, weird and just plain amazing fact of life I have found.

Michael Morhaime, in a Blizzard Insider interview:

"I think we learned some important design lessons that have become sort of part of the Blizzard culture now. Everyone at the company played The Lost Vikings over and over to help test and polish it. We saw what a huge impact that such attention to detail had on the game. We also learned that the people who program and design a game aren't the best judges of how difficult it is to play; they know the game too well. We had to constantly bring new people in and watch them play, especially with the early levels, to make sure they weren't too hard. Working on Vikings helped us remember the big picture: that a game, first and foremost, should be fun to play…that it should feel good and look good. The Lost Vikings was also our first attempt at adding a bit of humor to a game. We wanted each Viking to have some charm, so we came up with funny animations and interesting dialogue to give each character his own unique personality. By the time Warcraft II came along, we had refined the concept a little more, but Blizzard's first attempts at humor began with The Lost Vikings." Would you like to get app, device and game reviews?

Walking dead can make somethings special?

Maybe you hear about The Walking Dead and you know this movie talk about zombie but anything special in that movie? For the anwser we will find it in this post. Hope you get more factoflife about this movie.

What's new in Fear of the Walking Dead

In stead of being set in the American south, the series will be set on the West Coast, and will feature a slew of new characters. Comic book writer Robert Kirkman says there will be one major difference between Fear The Walking Dead and AMC’s original zombie drama: it will be set in an extremely urban environment, which means we won’t have to see the cast members constantly traipsing through the woods. 

So many funny jokes in the movie can you find it?

While the woods in Georgia are super attractive, I believe that most fans of The Walking Dead Comic get tired of all of the shots of the group wandering through a sea of trees over and over again. Sure, these shots have been broken up by settings like Hershel’s farm, Woodbury, the prison and the Alexandria Safe-Zone, but among all of those locations, there have been trees, more trees and a lot of trees.

And while Los Angeles actually features more trees than a lot of other immense cities, there’s a reason it is sometimes referred to as a concrete jungle, and it looks as if Fear The Walking Dead wants to make great use of that landscape. 

Kirkman also goes on to tell EW a little more about the “urban sprawl,” Los Angeles, that will be the focus on Fear The Walking Dead, noting that it is the dense number of people that should lead to some interesting storylines. 

Not only will there be zero woods, therefore, ethere will also be more people to contend with, which could lead to pros and cons regarding survival for our new heroes and heroines. Especially, caused we already know that Fear The Walking Dead will cover different timelines than Walking Dead comic, giving us glimpses into the start of the outbreak on the West Coast, although we could eventually see the timelines on the two shows line up a little closer. The first season will only consist of six episodes, so we’ll have to wait and see exactly how the early episodes of the drama will pan out. 

Fear The Walking Dead movie had been widely expected to premiere later this summer, but the result is not good as expected and as The Walking Dead. The characters are unappealing, where everyone does not tell anyone what's going on or at-least try to share or explain what's happening, totally illogical interaction with people and family. It seems to be truly a walking dead, but awful.

Read more topic at games, entertainment, news,.....

Penguin joke is cute all the time,get more fun and try to not laugh

They are the only bird can't fly but they are can live in water and find the food very quickly. Can't fly but can swim,it's cool anyway. Their joke is good too,let try some joke of penguin.

Top 20 best penguin jokes for kids

funny penguin jokes

1. What do you call food regurgitated by a penguin?

 - Homemade!

2. What kind of rock hops?

- A rockhopper penguin

3. What Emperor wears only black and white and orange?

- An emperor penguin

4. What do you call a penguin that can lift a polar bear?

- Sir

5. Where do penguins keep their money?

- In a snow bank

6. What's blue and swims?

- A little blue penguin

7. What kind of food does a Royal penguin like?

- Macaroni

8. Why can't penguins fly?

- Because they don't have enough money to buy plane tickets.

9. What’s black and white, black and white, and black and white?

- A penguin rolling down a hill!

10. What do penguins sing at a birthday party?

- Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow!

11. Where do penguins go to dance?

- The snow ball!

12. Which side of a penguin has the most feathers?

- The outside!

13. What do you call fifty penguins at the North Pole?

- Really lost, because penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere!

14. What do you get when you cross a penguin and an alligator?

- I don’t know, but don’t try to fix its bow tie!

15. Why did the penguin cross the road?

-  To go with the floe!

16. Who’s the head of the penguin navy?

-  Admiral Byrd!

17. Where do penguins go to the movies?

- At the dive-in!

18. What’s a penguin’s favorite salad?

- Iceberg lettuce!

19. What do penguins have for lunch?

- Icebergers!

20. Who’s the penguin’s favorite Aunt?

 - Aunt-Arctica!

You can read more about Pokemon and other game here

Opera's Free VPN

Opera earlier this week released a new version of its browser, Opera 40, which comes with a free virtual private network service built in. The official rollout follows five months of user experimentation with a beta version.

The company evaluated beta users' feedback and subsequently brought on additional servers, added options for global or private browsing, and created versions that would run on iOS and Android, noted company spokesperson Yvonne Gonzalez.

When the VPN is turned on, it creates a secure connection to one of Opera's five servers around the world, letting users spoof their IP address. Options now include two new virtual locations: Singapore and the Netherlands.

"We strongly believe that if more people knew how the Internet truly works, they would use a VPN," Gonzalez told LinuxInsider.

Many Hurdles to Clear

Only half of the people responding to a recent Opera global survey knew what a VPN was. As for the other half -- more than 70 percent of those who were familiar with VPN technology chose not to use a service, citing as reasons difficulty in using them and unwillingness to pay.

Users can enable the Opera VPN in the privacy and security subsetting, found either in the settings or preferences menu, depending on the OS the browser is running in.

The VPN can be toggled on and off after being set up, and users can select their virtual location. Alternatively, the browser can be set to select the optimal server location automatically. In automatic mode, browsing through the VPN always proceeds at the maximum available speed, according to Opera.

Users also can choose whether to have the VPN on for a global setting or only in private browsing mode.

Opera supports Windows 7 through 10, any recent Linux distribution, Mac OS 10.9 or later, iOS and Android, Gonzalez said.

Why Use a VPN?

The chief purpose of a VPN is to protect user privacy online. Opera's VPN lets users serve up one of its IP addresses instead of their own to mask the user's identity.

"VPNs let you reflect the IP address of the VPN termination point rather than your origination point," said Michael Jude, a program manager at Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan.

However, "Other than for secure transmissions, which can be accomplished using https, why even bother with a VPN? It's just more complexity," he told LinuxInsider.

Further, VPNs "are finicky and don't play well with some applications," Jude said. "It used to be the case they didn't do well with streaming video or mobile data devices. Those problems have been addressed, but you can still have issues with different applications -- usually anything that's timing-dependent."

In general, it's hard to connect with a VPN, and they tend to be slow because they simulate a dedicated secure pipe by encoding IP packets within a secure wrapper, he added. "The wrapper consumes bandwidth -- so you really don't want to use a VPN on a slow connection."

VPNs can add overhead to a connection, and a VPN that's on all the time may burn up a lot of data on a user's data plan, Jude pointed out.

Netflix reportedly blocked the Opera VPN from accessing its library in Europe, likely due to licensing issues.

More trouble may be in store, because "many commercial services and even online commerce sites work hard to geofence their offerings," noted Al Hilwa, a research program director at IDC.

Getting More Subscribers

Opera's share of the global browser market is minuscule.

"We are proud of having more than 50 million users on the desktop and 350 million total users on our Opera products," Opera's Gonzalez said. "We're going to carry on bringing innovation and interesting features to our product."

Still, using the VPN "will be the purview of power users," IDC's Hilwa told LinuxInsider.

If it does take off, other browsers may follow Opera's lead.

Update to get some of new free games and watch some of video game reviews

SOME NEWS ABOUT I AM SETSUNA

When Square Enix revealed developer Tokyo RPG Factory at E3 2015, the publisher made the new team's goal clear: It was created to reclaim the legacy of Japanese role-playing games that had once made Square such a known and beloved name. But that's also a tall order. Many have argued that there's a reason the Japanese style of role-playing game has mostly shrunk into a relatively tiny niche audience.

To Tokyo RPG Factory's credit, none of that pressure to deliver can be felt in I Am Setsuna. This game is packed with plenty of throwbacks to Square's 16-bit glory days, but it also very much has its own identity. And that identity is one of an impressive if imperfect debut.

AN IMPRESSIVE IF IMPERFECT DEBUT

I Am Setsuna is set in a drab, snow-covered world, where once every 10 years or so, a sacrificial maiden must be sent on a pilgrimage and give her life to temporarily stop the threat of monsters wiping out the remnants of humanity. As the masked mercenary Endir, you've been tasked to assassinate the sacrifice in question.

Yeah, it's ... a pretty grim setup.

As things tend to go in RPGs, however, the tables get turned and Endir ends up joining that sacrifice — the titular Setsuna — as a member of the guard on her pilgrimage to the Last Lands. It's a journey that drags the small group to all corners of the world, pulling in a handful of new party members as you go.

All of this probably sounds by the books, and it is. The structure of I Am Setsuna is perhaps the bit that's most recognizably "old-school Japanese RPG." However, the game shines in the details; it's the first role-playing game of its style that I can remember playing in years where the plot actually pulled me through much more so than the mechanics or the excitement of discovery.

Once you get past the fairly generic opening hours, I Am Setsuna's characters grow into a surprisingly intriguing bunch, full of unexpected, secret motivations. I'm used to guessing my fair share of plot twists well in advance in RPGs, but here I found myself surprised by many of the reveals and by the directions the cast went in.

What impressed me the most is how warm I Am Setsuna felt by the end. For a game so somber and serious, it doesn't allow the gravity of the scenario to create distance between the player and the characters. Put another way: I was not exhausted and ready to be done by the end of the game, despite an overwhelming earnestness in the writing that could easily have worn thin.

Of course, part of my uninterrupted enjoyment of I Am Setsuna is thanks to excellent battle system. It uses Square's standard "active time battle" combat — basically, you watch a bar fill up in real time for each of your party members, and once it's full you can choose to swing your weapon, cast a spell or use an item. Taking a few cues from the Super Nintendo classic Chrono Trigger, if two characters in your currently active party have compatible spells, they can be combined into super-powerful combo attacks.

Nothing about these mechanics struck me as particularly outstanding or new, but the game has mastered the kind of simple, easy-to-understand, well-balanced RPG combat that is too easily underestimated. Most fights in I Am Setsuna consist only of the basics — attacking, healing, monitoring status effects like poison and so on — and yet they were some of the tensest and most satisfying battles I've had in ages. The boss fights, in particular, rest on that razor-thin border between requiring smart use of all resources and just being a frustrating pain in the ass. It's been a while since I've had an RPG remind me of how good that feels.

THE BOSS FIGHTS WERE SOME OF THE MOST SATISFYING BATTLES I'VE HAD IN AGES

Other reminders of Square Enix's output over the last 10 years are less welcome. I Am Setsuna has a few underexplained and seemingly undercooked systems, such as momentum, which adds an element of timing to attacks in order to achieve extra damage, and singularities, which are random effects that can trigger for a short amount of time during battles. These mechanics, and a few others in the game, are confusing at their best. They're also entirely unnecessary to completing or enjoying the game, so I mostly ignored them.

The lack of environmental variety in I Am Setsuna is harder to handwave away. As previously mentioned, the game's world is covered in snow in all directions, so every town and outdoor field has the same frigid feel. That's well enough, but this extends to dungeons as well. The game boasts a grand total of maybe three or four dungeon "types" — an icy cavern, a treacherous mountain path, a strange, technologically advanced tower. These templates repeat several times, as do the handful of enemy types within them, draining the game of a sense of discovery and wonder.

Still, even when I was exploring a setting I was already overly familiar with, the presentation is gorgeous. I Am Setsuna's stylized characters and artsy world design sets it apart from the average, cheap-CGI look that many RPGs share. The art direction is aided by a lovely, piano-heavy soundtrack that really sells the game's melancholy tone.

WRAP UP:I AM SETSUNA IS A SOMBER YET JOYFUL NOSTALGIA TRIP

It's not a new classic by any stretch, but I Am Setsuna demonstrates a great understanding and mastery of what made Square Enix's past successes work so well. It might have benefited from stripping down the mechanics even more, or spending more resources creating a wider range of locations and enemies. But as it is, I Am Setsuna is a soft, sad experience that nonetheless filled me with joy. That should tell you everything.

Check out to read some news about game of thrones and online games for kids

Pokemon GO: How To Catch All Region Exclusive Pokemon

Get some of new games coming out

Catching them all in Pokemon GO is no easy feat, but this trick will help trainers snag all of the region exclusive Pokemon without leaving their own continent.

Although Pokemon GO is full of plenty of goals for players to achieve, many trainers are primarily interesting in catching them all. Currently that task if very difficult, even for the most dedicatedPokemon GO players, due to unreleased legendaries and region exclusive Pokemon. Luckily, the region exclusive barrier has some wiggle room.

Currently, there are four Pokemon that are considered region locked. Farfetch’d (Asia), Kangaskhan (Australia), Mr. Mime (Europe), and Tauros (North America) all seem to only be found in the wild in their respective regions. Although it seem to be impossible to find the three that are outside of your area of play in the nearby tool, many trainers are confirming that there is another way to add these ‘mon to the Pokedex.

According to reports from multiple players, including one who has caught every available Pokemon, the region exclusive characters can all be hatched from 10km eggs, regardless of the region where the egg was picked up. This has been a rumor since the game launched, but there are now enough reports and screenshots to confirm that the Pokemon are collectible from eggs outside of their regions.

The first step to unlocking the region exclusives is to collect some 10km eggs. 10km eggs are randomly dropped at Pokestops just like 2km and 5km eggs, but are more rare and obviously take a lot longer to hatch for the average player. If you don’t have a 10km egg to get started, we recommend you visit a nearby crowded area of Pokestops and start spinning until one is dropped.

Hatching 10km eggs is no small feat, especially since the GPS-based distance tracking isn’t the most reliable, but players should be able to acquire all the region exclusive Pokemon locally by putting in some serious mileage. The fastest way to get them all definitely requires spending some Pokecoins on additional egg incubators.

Every player has one egg incubator with infinite uses, but additional incubators cost 150 and only have three uses. If you’re going to buy additional egg incubators, the best strategy is to hatch 2km eggs from the infinite incubators and use the the limited incubators for the rare 10km eggs to get the most bang for your buck. This strategy still requires a lot of luck, but it’s good to know that it’s at least possible to collect them all without spending hundreds of dollars on plane tickets.

How many of the region exclusive Pokemon have you added to your Pokedex? Let us know in the comments.

Get some news about upcoming pc games and read the reviews

When is the Game of Thrones season 7 release date, who is Jon Snow's father and will we find out Jon's real name?

Contains spoilers for the Game of Thrones season six finale

It's only been a few days since we finished watching the electrifyingThe Winds of Winter - and now that we're done toasting Queen Cersei (with wine, wine and more wine), cheering on Daenerys's dragons and revelling in that Walder Frey moment, we're suffering a severe case of Westeros withdrawal.

To remedy that, here's a quick round-up of the big questions surrounding season seven of Game of Thrones.

1. When will season 7 of Game of Throne be released and how long will it be?

We don’t know exactly when season seven will be released, but HBO has confirmed that it'll be in the summer of 2017, rather than the April (as per previous seasons).

“Now that winter has arrived on game of thrones, executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss felt that the storylines of the next season would be better served by starting production a little later than usual, when the weather is changing,” said HBO programming president Casey Bloys.

“Instead of the show’s traditional spring debut, we’re moving the debut to summer to accommodate the shooting schedule.”

We also that there are probably only going to be 13 more episodes of the show, spread across two shorter seasons. HBO has confirmed that season seven will be seven episodes long.

"It’s two more seasons we’re talking about," showrunner David Benioff told Deadline. "From pretty close to the beginning, we talked about doing this in 70-75 hours, and that’s what we’ll end up with. Call it 73 for now.

“The thing that has excited us from the beginning, back to the way we pitched it to HBO is, it’s not supposed to be an ongoing show, where every season it’s trying to figure out new story lines. We wanted it to be one giant story, without padding it out to add an extra 10 hours, or because people are still watching it.”

2. Will we finally find out Jon's real name?

As names go, Jon Snow is a pretty good one – who wouldn't want to share a moniker with the British journalist and Channel 4 News presenter? 

Sadly, however, the real name of the moody, man bun-wearing Game of Thrones hero is probably much less catchy.

During the season six finale, we saw Lyanna Stark, who had just given birth, whisper something to her brother Eddard Stark. Frustratingly, however, most of her speech was inaudible. 

Undeterred by this, one fan has employed the classic "repeatedly watch scene while trying to lip-read" technique, and determined that Lyanna could be revealing her baby's name.

"I have rewatched the new TOJ [Tower of Joy] scene about a dozen fifty times at least now, with captions and without," writesReddit user Sparkledavisjr. "Lyanna starts by whispering 'His name is', and then what follows appears to be a three syllable word that appears to start with a J. I'm not a great lip-reader, but I'm fairly certain what she says is Jaehaerys. The name is not included in the captions, probably on purpose."

The choice of Jaehaerys, an old Targaryen name previously used by Westerosi monarchs, would all but confirm that Jon's father is Rhaegar Targaryen (something not explictly shown in the episode, but which most fans now suspect is almost certainly true, thanks to a family tree that appeared on the HBO website shortly after the episode aired). If this were the case, it would also make sense for Jon to have a Targaryen name – assuming of course that Lyanna eloped with Rheagar for love and that they chose their child's name together.

Baby Jaehaerys? Or baby Aemon? CREDIT: HBO

Either way, we'd recommend giving the original Reddit post a proper read: the author has a great analysis of why Jaehaerys would be a particularly fitting name.

• Upcoming PC Games Releases for 2016

Not everyone is convinced, however. Other people have watched the clip and opined that Lyanna isn't forming a three-syllable "J" sound at all, but a two syllable "A" word.

If this is the case, fans have suggested, then another likely Targaryen name could be Aemon. This would poignantly link Jon to old Aemon Targaryen, the late maester of the Night's watch. Aegon, too, is a possibility, although this was also the name of Rhaegar's eldest son, murdered as a child along with his mother and sister. Furthermore, in George RR Martin's later books a character claiming to be the long-lost Aegon has mysteriously surfaced to exert his claim to the throne, making it seem unlikely that Martin would also give the name to Jon.

There's also always Aerys, the name of Rhaegar's father – although, considering the fact that Aerys II was both mad and pretty evil, we're not sure it's the likeliest of choices. 

We're going to be completely honest: we've watched the clip quite a few times ourselves and, while we can read "His name is", we can't make anything definite out at all when it comes to the name part. 

This is probably just our terrible lipreading skills – but it's also conceivable that the actress playing Lyanna doesn't actually form a clear word, and the the team behind the show made the (exceptionally cruel) decision to tease fans by deliberately withholding Jon's name.

3. When will the White Walkers make a move? And will the Wall come down?

The Night King

Yes, the season six finale was pretty fantastic – but amid all the mass murder, suicide, Frey pies, green fire and soaring dragons, the Night King and his blue-eyed boys were conspicuously absent.

In some ways, it felt as if the season was focusing on escalating the show’s many human threads: the brilliantly nasty Ramsay has been turned into the Westerosi equivalent of Pedigree Chum, Jon is in control of the North and Daenerys is now surging across the narrow sea. The early part of season seven will therefore most likely focus on the dragon queen and her battle to take control of Westeros – we can’t imagine Cersei (who we've decided to call "the flagon queen", thanks to her pretty much constant wine-drinking) will go without a fight.

But as we’ve been repeatedly warned, the Walkers are on the march. A number of fans expect that both the show and George RR Martin’s books will end with a climactic final battle between the Others and the dragons (the book series as a whole is called A Song of Ice and Fire, after all).

But before this happens, Game of Thrones will need to up the sense of threat, possibly with another Hardhome-style massacre, and tease us with a bit more info about the Walkers. We already know how they were created (great move, Children of the Forest), but we’re sure there’s a lot more to come. There’s even been speculation that Game of Thrones will surprise us all by revealing that they aren’t so bad after all.

One thing we’re pretty sure has to happen? The great Wall – the icy barrier dividing Westeros from the North and keeping out the Walkers – has got to fall.

An early plot rumour for season six even suggested that this could happen in The Winds of Winter, at the end of season six – but perhaps it’ll now be the dramatic season seven closer instead?

4. What kind of ruler will Cersei make? And how long will she be in power?

Actress Lena Headey, who plays Cersei, has already weighed in on the latter question. Asked by Entertainment Weekly whether her character’s would have time to get comfortable on the world’s most uncomfortable throne, she said: “No. Surely not! Not a chance in hell. It's [Cersei's reign] a moment of punctuation in the madness.”

As to what kind of ruler she’ll make? We’re betting on cruel, chaotic and crazy-as-hell. Forget Aerys II: we reckon Cersei could give the Mad King a run for his money any day.

All hail Queen Cersei: Lena Headey in The Winds of Winter CREDIT: HBO

5. Who will kill Cersei?

Headey reckons it’ll be Arya or Tyrion, according to her Entertainment Weekly interview. But we’re not so sure. That look Jaime gave her, in their final season six scene together – gazing at Ceseri as she sat in splendour on the iron throne – was pretty loaded. Was he proud of his sister and her triumph? Or (much more likely) was he appalled at the lengths she had gone to secure power? And how will he react to the suicide of their implausibly nice son Tommen, and the fact that it was precipitated by Cersei’s actions?

6. That look aside, why else do people think Jaime might be the one to finally kill Cersei?

In both the TV show and the books, Cersei is haunted by a prediction, made to her as a young girl by a woods witch named Maggy.

• Find all the latest PS4 game reviews, Xbox

Maggy foretells that Cersei will have three children and that she’ll be forced to watch all of them die before her – a prophecy that was proved true in the season six finale, when poor disillusioned Tommen, her last surviving child, jumped to his death.

But in the books there’s a second part to the prophecy, which alludes to Cersei’s own death: strangled at the hands of somebody referred to as “the Valonqar”.

Jaime and Cersei in season six of Game of Thrones CREDIT: HBO

In the Game of Thrones world, Valonqar is a Valyrian word meaning “little brother” or possibly (we don’t know all that much about the language) a more gender neutral “younger sibling”.

In this case, Cersei’s younger brother Tyrion could well be the man. But, many fans have pointed out, Jaime could also be a contender: while he and Cersei are twins, it has been established that Jaime was born after his sister, meaning that he is still her younger sibling.

That said, the killer might not necessarily be a direct relative of Cersei’s at all. Some fans think the prophecy could just refer to a younger brother or younger sibling – in which case Arya just might be the perfect fit.

Previously, fans even speculated that the words meant "the younger brother of your three children" – indicating Tommen. Of course, it was always difficult to see exactly how this would work, given that the prophecy also suggested that Tommen would die before Cersei.

But see the (extremely far-fetched) theory outlined in our final question for one possible solution.

7. Will we see Ser Jorah again?

And if we do, how far will his Greyscale have progressed? If he’s unable to find a cure for Westeros's Worst Skin Disease – something which generations before him have failed to do – then we reckon Jorah might return, perhaps to sacrifice himself for Daenerys in a final act of bravery.

Either that, or we'll catch a heartrending glimpse of him as one of the unfortunate stone men (victims in an advanced stage of the disease).

8. Will we see Lyanna Mormont again?

We certainly hope so: the fiery, frankly quite terrifying 10-year-old leader of Bear Island was one of this season’s most popular new characters, and for good reason.

Either way, we'll definitely be seeing actress Bella Ramsey again soon: while Game of Thrones was Ramsey's TV debut, next year she's going to star in a new CBBC TV adaptation of Jill Murphy's The Worst Witch series (rejoice now, Nineties kids).

Lyanna Mormont (Bella Ramsey) on Game of Thrones CREDIT: HBO

9. Will Jon regret letting Melisandre live?

Carice van Houten as Melisandre in Game of Thrones

We don't think Melisandre will turn on Jon, given that she believes him to be long-prophesised hero Azor Ahai (a sort of chosen one of the Lord of Light). But how will the Red Priestess react to being sent away from the man she restored to life and to being separated from the main action? And will Jon miss her magic?

There's also, let's not forget, a host of intriguing fan theories out there about Melisandre's origins. After the shock reveal about her true age at the beginning of this season (not all fans were shocked by the age itself, but there's no denying that that that on-screen transition was pretty effective), it felt like further revelations about the character's background might be on the cards. These never really materialised in season six, but there's no reason why season seven couldn't delve further into the backstory of enigmatic Red Priestess.

10. Will Arya head to King’s Landing? (Contains mild book spoilers)

Maisie Williams as Arya Stark in Game of Thrones season six

In the books, Catelyn Stark– brutally murdered at the Red Wedding at the hands of the treacherous Walder Frey – is brought back to life through some Lord of Light-related magic.

Unlike Jon, however, who came back pretty much the same as he always was (albeit with a terrible new hairstyle) after his spell in the world of the dead, book Catelyn returns as a frightening, zombie-like figure, hell-bent on revenge against the Freys – whom she begins picking off one by one.

There was some speculation that Arya could take on this role – but, judging by the season six finale, she’s not interested in minor members of the family.

Instead went straight for the Frey jugular (in more than one sense), baking the two eldest sons in a pie, feeding it to Walder – and slitting his throat.

We expect she’ll now head to King’s Landing, to settle her longstanding score with Cersei…which brings us to our (totally ridiculous, but none-the-less intriguing) final question.

11. Will Arya don Tommen's face to murder Cersei?

The answer to this is, alas, is "probably not". Especially given the fact that Tommen’s body will soon be burnt, according to Cersei’s instructions (although we haven’t yet seen this happen). Also, we're not sure exactly what kind of state his face is currently in.

Still, it would make a gruesomely great death scene – and seeing her “son” miraculously restored to life, only for him to murder her, would certainly make Cersei's last moments pretty horrific. It’d also fit nicely in with some of the “Tommen is the Valonqar/Arya is the Valonqar” theories outlined above.

This potential plot twist only occurred to us during the season six finale, after we saw just how advanced Arya's face-switching skills had become. But a quick Google has revealed that other Game of Thrones fans (and advocates of the "Tommen is the Valonqar" theory) had in fact raised the possibility years ago.

"The castle employees would already know Cersei was losing her mind, so when the queen shouted about Tommen being alive again the staff would just nod their heads politely and assume Cersei was hallucinating," reads a 2014 post on the A Song of Ice and Fire forums. "So it's the perfect cover for Arya to operate and then slip back into the shadows. Plus she'd have overheard Cersei yammering about the prophecy, so Arya would use that prophecy as a way of messing with the queen and venting her own vengeance." 

Here's hoping...

Catch up with Game of Thrones on Sky and join today to get a free 32" LG TV or a £100 choice reward

Source telegraph.co.uk