How Ellie’s pathfinding made you love her
Well, that and the horseback scene.
The Last of Us
Why I quit playing Baldur’s Gate 2: A Confession
What century is this from, anyway?
Videogames and the aesthetic of ruins
Why are we obsessed with broken worlds?
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,
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