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What TIME got wrong about The Last of Us
No photographer could capture what made Naughty Dog’s game great.
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TV and film are full of bad dads, but games are doing better
“[On TV] if there is a dad in the home, he is an idiot. It must have reflected our own discomfort with dads being competent,” said Hanna Rosin on a panel about the future of fatherhood this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “You put a dad in front of his kid, and the dad gives the worst advice. Y
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Holy jeez, characters in The Last of Us PS4 will look as pretty as they did in PS3 cut-scenes
The Last of Us remaster will be unreally real.
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Watch Naughty Dog give a fascinating peek into the AI of Ellie
One of the best sessions I attended at GDC this year was on the AI pathfinding of Ellie, everyone’s favorite surrogate daughter from The Last of Us. Admittedly, “AI pathfinding” sounds sedative, but actually proves to be enlightening. It turns out the way Ellie’s movements, shooting abilities, and b
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How Ellie’s pathfinding made you love her
Well, that and the horseback scene.
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Why I quit playing Baldur’s Gate 2: A Confession
What century is this from, anyway?
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Videogames and the aesthetic of ruins
Why are we obsessed with broken worlds?
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New PBS Game/Show asks why we get so attached to NPCs
From Ellie, to Clementine, to, yeah, even Claptrap, the advent of believable non-playable characters, or NPCs, is one of the biggest developments in games in recent years, and also one of the strangest. Unlike the occasional actor and television personality that we form unrealistic attachments too,
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Watch the devs of The Last of Us wrangle over the differences between film and games
The Last of Us has been getting a lot of buzz lately, with the Left Behind DLC and whispers of a sequel whetting our appetites for a second helping of what may be the grimmest buddy film/game. Luckily, you can sink your teeth into this nearly two-hour documentary on the making of it. There’s a lot
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Naughty Dog to flip coin to decide whether or not to make a Last of Us sequel
On Reddit, the narrative designer of The Last of Us has said there’s a “50/50” chance of a sequel being made, which continues a proud tradition of ambiguity on the issue. At one point, a sequel was deemed a remote possibility, with no chance of the lead characters of the story returning. He told the
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The Order: 1886’s new trailer showcases the story scenes you’ll probably check your phone during
Sony has released a new trailer for The Order 1886, which tells us next to nothing about the hotly anticipated PS4 game that features surly curmudgeons battling dark legions in a rainy Victorian London. It appears to be the intro to the title screen. Thanks, Sony. But, you’re in luck. Footage that
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Naughty Dog to those who think The Last of Us is too violent: Get over it
The Last of Us is an ice-cold, hopeless, and harrowing bloodbath through an ugly, post-infected America, and one of the best games of recent years. It’s also been the source of controversy, with some critics complaining that it was too grizzly and violent. All this moralizing momentarily caused the