The second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon ended back in August 2024. Fans went all of 2025 without new episodes, but the wait is almost over. The official House of the Dragon X account has released a new poster revealing that the series will return for Season 3 this summer. While we don’t have an exact release date yet, the latest look at House of the Dragon confirms Season 3 is headed to HBO in June. The second season of the Game of Thrones prequel premiered in June 2024, which means fans will have waited exactly two years between Seasons 2 and 3. Check out the new poster below:

While we didn’t get new seasons of any Game of Thrones prequel shows last year, 2026 is full to bursting with them. This upcoming Sunday, HBO will air the Season 1 finale of the new prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is set some 100 years after the events of House of the Dragon but 100 years before Game of Thrones. HBO is smartly using the hype around A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — the first season has gone over incredibly well — to promote House of the Dragon. In addition to the new poster, it’s also going to release a teaser for Season 3 tomorrow, something it’s also teasing on X.
A Teaser for ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Drops on February 19

The new poster shows Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) surrounded by the blades of the Iron Throne, with a crown on her head. When last we saw Queen Rhaenyra, she was fighting her half-brother King Aegon Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) for control of the Iron Throne. If you happen to have read the show’s source material, the book Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin, you have some idea of what happens next, and may have your own interpretations of the poster. If not, you’re in for a wild ride. While the first season of House of the Dragon was widely praised, the second saw the show suffering a bit of a sophomore slump. Part of this was due to the series going further and further afield from the source materia, which rubbed fans (and George R.R. Martin) the wrong way. And part of it was due to HBO reducing the episode count from 10 in the first season to eight in the second, which meant Season 2 ended earlier in the story than originally planned. Hopefully, Season 3 will be able to redeem that rough patch.

It’s been confirmed that House of the Dragon will end with Season 4. Knowing how complicated the show is to make, the fourth and final season likely won’t be out until 2028. However, HBO is readying a new season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms for 2027, which it can do because that show is smaller in scale and less costly to produce. So going forward, fans will get to visit Westeros at least once a year.