Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was an immediate game-changer when Naughty Dog released it in 2009. As a high octane love letter to Indiana Jones and the 1950s adventure serials that inspired it, it set an ideal expectation for the adventure genre — never give the player an opportunity to breathe. Every objective must…
The Last of Us hasn't been around for that long, but that doesn't mean we can't infect our live brains with some trivia about it. Thankfully, the keepers of bizarre factoids at "Did You Know Gaming?" are here to do just that.
Most people probably looked at the first footage of Nathan Drake's next adventure and were impressed by how Uncharted 4 looked. Not photographer Adam Myhill. He thinks the lighting in A Thief's End could be improved. And went ahead and showed how it could happen.
We've seen Uncharted 4 in action. Here's a closer look at the star of the game, Nathan Drake—and how Naughty Dog updated the character.
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YouTuber Freako likes to mess around with The Last Of Us, putting Ellie's shirt on Joel, or deleting characters. In this case though, the results are a whole lot spookier, accidentally turning TLOU into something like Beyond: Two Souls.
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The Last of Us sure could be eerie looking. No wonder, then, that real-world photographers find it a morbid and fascinating muse. These haunting images were made by Sam Javanrouh, using only the PS4's standard capture features in the game's Left Behind chapter:
Naughty Dog animator Tal Peleg has written an interesting behind-the-scenes piece about how he made that great Dante's Inferno short film. You can check it out here.
Played the 2010 game Dante's Inferno? Craving more of Dante's adventures through hell? Check out this badass short film by Naughty Dog animator Tal Peleg.
The Last of Us: Remastered is out on PS4, and it's pretty great. The original PS3 version, however, was famous for some downright hilarious glitches, and I'm happy to report that Remastered does its rough-around-the-polygons grandpappy proud with new ones of its own.
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The story of a minor character you never meet in The Last Of Us teaches one inescapable truth of that world: one way or another you are getting blood on your hands and you'd best make sure it's not your own.
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Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this week.
Tonight's stage performance of The Last of Us: One Night Live was weird, ramshackle, funny, and kinda unlike any video-game event I've seen. The best part, easily, was the musical number.
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Tonight in Santa Monica, something strange and wonderful took place: The actors, writers, musicians and game developers who made The Last of Us put on a performance, live onstage.
The Last of Us came out on the PlayStation 3 last year. It was very, very good. This week, a new and improved version of the game will come out for the PlayStation 4. But can a game that was already so good really be "improved" all that much?
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Produced by filmmaker Sam Raimi. Written by The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann. Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) possibly in talks to be Ellie. (But don't count on that one until it's actually finalized.)
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With the third Spidey movie pushed back to 2018 to squeeze in The Sinister Six movie, Nathan Drake's turn on the big screen is slated to fill Spider-Man 3's June 10, 2016 spot. I smell a conspiracy.
GameSpot has posted a video showing the differences between the PS3 and PS4 versions of The Last Of Us.
The moment I opened Sideshow Collectibles' Sixth Scale Nathan Drake figure from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is the moment it stopped being a Nathan Drake figure. No, this is a creepy six-legged spider figure with a Nathan Drake accessory.
Wondering who's in charge of the next Uncharted after all those shake-ups at Naughty Dog? With Amy Hennig and Justin Richmond out of the studio, Uncharted #4 will instead be headed up by The Last of Us leads Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. We expect to see more about the game at E3 next week.
Porting a game from PS3 to PS4 is no simple task. Sure, one might imagine that you just bump up the resolution and put it on a new disc, but...no. As The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann puts it in this new EDGE feature, "We expected it to be Hell, and it was Hell."
