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Sony has provided a new sales update for God of War PS4–and it’s huge. The title has now sold more than 10 million copies, according to a slide from Sony’s recent investor day briefing.

The 10 million sales was shown to demonstrate the strength of Sony’s owned franchises across platforms. As you can see, God of War franchise sales have grown across their entries on PS2, PS3, and PS4. The same is true for the Uncharted and Last of Us franchises.

It’s not clear if the God of War (or other games mentioned in the graphic) count copies sold in console bundles, but that seems likely. God of War launched in April 2018 and became the PS4’s fastest-selling exclusive game ever.

For more on God of War, you can check out the GameSpot Audio Logs episode where game director Cory Barlog breaks down one of the most impactful scenes that almost didn’t happen. Check it out in the video embed above.

HBO’s Game of Thrones recently ended its eighth and final season. We know who lived and died. We know who won The Iron Throne. The ending was divisive. It tied up loose ends but also posed more questions about the future of Westeros. Could any of that be explored in a Game of Thrones sequel show? No. There will be no sequels, HBO programming boss Casey Bloys says.

“Nope, nope, nope. No,” Bloys told The Hollywood Reporter.

HBO is working on multiple prequel TV series with new characters and actors in a story set in a different time period. Bloys says there won’t be sequels, however, because he wants the Game of Thrones created by D.B. Weiss and David Benioff to stand on its own.

“Part of it is, I do want this show–this Game of Thrones, Dan and David’s show–to be its own thing. I don’t want to take characters from this world that they did beautifully and put them off into another world with someone else creating it,” he said. “I want to let it be the artistic piece they’ve got. That’s one of reasons why I’m not trying to do the same show over.”

The world that George R.R. Martin created is “massive,” Bloys said, so HBO wants to keep trying new things instead of bringing back familiar characters and settings.

“We’re trying to do things that feel distinct–and to not try and re-do the same show,” he said. “That’s probably one of the reasons why, right now, a sequel or picking up any of the other characters doesn’t make sense for us.”

The entirety of Season 8 was controversial, and specifically the finale. Fans created an online petition asking for a remake, and Sansa actress Sophie Turner slammed it as “disrespectful.”

Some people on the internet are not happy about the final season of Game of Thrones. They created a petition asking for a remake of Season 8 with new writers. Of course that will never happen. But almost 1.5 million signed the petition, which means it’s getting attention.

Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on the award-winning HBO show, told The New York Times that the petition is “disrespectful” to everyone who worked so hard for so long to make Game of Thrones over the past decade.

“All of these petitions and things like that–I think it’s disrespectful to the crew, and the writers, and the filmmakers who have worked tirelessly over 10 years, and for 11 months shooting the last season,” she said. “Like 50-something night shoots. So many people worked so, so hard on it, and for people to just rubbish it because it’s not what they want to see is just disrespectful.”

Turner said she’s not surprised that people got angry on the internet about Game of Thrones.

“People always have an idea in their heads of how they want a show to finish, and so when it doesn’t go to their liking, they start to speak up about it and rebel,” she said.

The actress added that Game of Thrones has always been a show with “crazy twists and turns,” starting with Season 1, so she doesn’t understand why people got so upset with how the story went in Season 8. “It shouldn’t be such a negative thing for fans. It’s a shock for sure, but I think it’s just because it hasn’t gone their way,” she said.

Whatever people thought about Game of Thrones Season 8 and the finale specifically, the show was a massive success for HBO. The finale, “The Iron Throne,” tallied more than 19 million viewers to set a new record for the show and HBO overall.

For more on Episode 6, check out the show’s latest coffee cup-style gaffe (this time featuring a pair of water bottles) and a reminder of who was at the council meeting (there were some faces present who we hadn’t seen in years). For our thoughts on the final episode, check out our “The Iron Throne” review.