May 23rd, 2019Now that Winter has come and gone for Game of Thrones on HBO, it appears that George R.R. Martin, the author of the Song of Ice and Fire book series that inspired the hit television show, is setting his sights on more than just finishing his book series – turns out, he's wanting to throw his hat into the world of video games as...
May 16th, 2019How prepared are you folks for the series finale of Game of Thrones this coming weekend? If you said you're not ready, I would totally understand. Good thing that HBO did these rad mini-features that would make you REALLY understand just how this was all coming to a head from day one. You ready to find out some craziness of the past...
May 1st, 2019If you ever about the languages in your favorite movies and television shows, Wired has you covered. As it turns out, linguistics experts are hired quite often to take present-day languages and weave them into ones that could be spoken and written for characters. In shows, especially Game of Thrones, there are different dialects of the...
April 22nd, 2019It's not easy being the Khal, guys. Ask D.B. Weiss and David Benioff who had a rather fun little 'game' that they played with Jason Momoa, he who was once Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones. David thought, perhaps, he could beat Jason in a slap game and, well, it didn't go great.
Check HBO's awesome little animated short out and see just...
April 9th, 2019Winter is here. For fans of the hit HBO television show Game of Thrones, we've been waiting over nine years to see how this epic journey would end (and it's been much longer for those of us that have been reading George R.R. Martin's books). But this Sunday, April 14th, we will finally begin the final season of GOT.
Over the last nine...
March 8th, 2019Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Looters! We’re celebrating this fortuitous holiday by counting down the seven luckiest duos in pop culture. Four leaf clovers, horseshoes and rabbit’s feet don’t have anything on these “charmed” pairs!
Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Not only were these two the...
February 5th, 2018This month, Loot Crate and Loot Crate DX are celebrating the heroes in pop culture that do all they can to PROTECT the people, places, and things they care most about. In their act of protecting, they also have some of their own awesome ways to protect themselves.
That’s right, we’re talking badass armors and more! Ranging from...
January 3rd, 2018Relationships are not always a permanent state of being, especially when it comes to the various states of books, television, and film. The Daily Crate recently discussed some of the ships that went the distance in pop culture, which you can read here!
On the other side of those time-tested relationships, there are the ones that we want...
August 15th, 2017It's truly a time to celebrate across the Loot Crate KINGDOM: After a brief hiatus, our themed Spotify playlists have returned!
Moving forward, we'll not only be sharing these out on social but also archiving them right here on The Daily Crate, so you can easily find them! Also, our own Dawn Banks will be curating these moving forward!...
June 8th, 2017Summer is here and the days of lounging on the couch watching TV have slowly crept their way into your life, right? Maybe on the weekends?
Whatever the case may be, this season is the best way to dig into all the television you may have missed during the fall and spring, as well as ready yourself to start on the smattering of shows...
April 13th, 2017Eggs are more than just something Guy Fieri fears. They’re often depicted as something oddly sinister throughout pop culture. So, as we head towards Easter, I thought we could take a look at the greatest fictional eggs (in no particular order):
Ovomorph (Aliens)
One day, H.R. Giger looked at an egg and thought to...
