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CultureOdds and EndsThe Last Of Us Game Actor Will Be In The TV Series
Well, this is neat! While the upcoming The Last Of Us TV series has been busy recasting everyone’s favourite murderers, replacing the iconic faces and voices we grew to love (?) over two grisly experiences, one actor from the game will be playing the same character in the show: Merle Dandridge, who played/plays Marlene. As…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2021 -
CultureReport: Naughty Dog Is Working On A Last Of Us Remake For PS5
Originally released in 2013 for the PS3, The Last of US is getting a PlayStation 5 update, reports Bloomberg Naughty Dog released a sequel, The Last of Us Part II, in 2020. According to the publication, at some point a development unit within Sony that was headed up by Michael Mumbauer had started work on…
By Brian Ashcraft Published April 9, 2021 -
CulturePedro Pascal To Portray Joel In HBO’s The Last Of Us
Deadline reports that Pedro Pascal, well known for Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian, will be starring as Joel in HBO’s upcoming television adaptation of The Last of Us First announced last March, the show’s plot will follow that of the original 2013 video game, with Pascal’s Joel struggling to cross a post-apocalyptic former United…
By Alexandra Hall Published February 10, 2021 -
OpinionHow The Past Year Got Me Thinking Of Post Apocalyptic Games In A New Light
Almost every day, I go for a walk with my kid. She’s just over two. There’s a strange serenity in the isolation of entire city blocks when there’s so few people out and about. In the first few months of the pandemic, it felt like we were walking through an abandoned city. I’ve lived in…
By Peter Tieryas Published December 27, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsTurns Out Sully’s Plane From Uncharted Can Be Found In A Last Of Us Multiplayer Map
Rodney Reece, a former Naughty Dog developer, revealed on Twitter recently that Sully’s plane from Uncharted can be found in The Last of Us. And based on how folks are reacting to it, this seems to be something nobody noticed before. Probably because they were too busy surviving. The plane can be found in the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 5, 2020 -
CultureSplitscreenVideo Games Sure Do Have A Lot Of Bad Dads
It’s the day after Thanksgiving. Your gut is heavy with leftovers, your vision blurs from the accumulated eye crust of countless naps. You find yourself wishing to engage in the greatest of all American holiday traditions: watching a sport you don’t usually care about while drifting in and out of sleep. Sports, though, are old…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 27, 2020 -
CultureThe Latest Patch For The Last of Us Remastered Reduced Loading Times By Over 70% On PS4
The new consoles are only a few weeks away and both the PS5 and Xbox Series X will have much faster loading times. But you don’t need a new console to experience incredible loading speeds after an update for The Last of Us Remastered on PS4. Now the game only takes 14 seconds to load from a…
By Zack Zwiezen Published October 25, 2020 -
CultureSo Much Work Went Into The Last Of Us Part II’s…Eyes
It won’t come as a surprise just how much work went into The Last of Us 2‘s characters. But you might appreciate knowing just how far Naughty Dog went to get the eyes — just the eyes — right. Naughty Dog’s Waylon Brinck and Qingzhou Tang gave a talk at SIGGRAPH, the global graphics technology…
Alex Walker Published September 24, 2020 -
CultureThat’s Seven Years Of Bad Luck
This week on Snapshots we have a wide and varied selection of screenshots from a bunch of games, including some photos from Control, The Last of Us, Fallout 76, and Red Dead Redemption II. “Don’t worry, I can’t imagine the next 5 to 10 years of your life being filled with terrible violence, death, and…
By Zack Zwiezen Published September 12, 2020 -
CultureNew The Last Of Us Part II Trophies Tease Grounded Mode, Permadeath [Update: Naughty Dog Explains]
The Last of Us Part II has a couple new trophies that indicate the impending arrival of both Grounded mode and a permadeath option, both of which should make the game exponentially harder. Grounded mode first appeared in 2013’s The Last of Us as a heightened difficulty level made available post-release. Although Naughty Dog hasn’t…
By Ian Walker Published August 10, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsThe Last Of Us 2’s Zombie Sounds Were Made By Squishy Fruit And Porridge(?)
There’s a great video up on SoundWorks Collection today featuring Beau Anthony Jimenez, sound designer at Naughty Dog, who shows off some of the ways the sounds for The Last Of Us 2 were recorded since there were no actual fungus zombies to stick in the recording booth. While the video deals with all kinds…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 6, 2020 -
CultureThe Last Of Us Part 2‘s Stuntwoman Spent Several Days Pretending To Die
The first time stuntwoman Amy Johnston worked with Naughty Dog, she performed motion capture for Nadine Ross in Uncharted 4 and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Her task—to portray a mercenary who could kick Nathan Drake’s ass—was suited to her skill set. The daughter of a kickboxing world champion and a third-degree black belt martial artist…
By Kevin Wong Published July 31, 2020 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Last Of Us 2‘s Scariest Scene Has A Gameplay Problem
Between the screaming fungus zombies and the overtones of mindless militarism, The Last of Us Part 2 is basically one big, playable nightmare. But the scariest moment of the game comes at the midway point. At the end of Abby’s “Seattle Day 2” chapter, you end up at the Washington Liberation Front’s hospital base. Your…
By Ari Notis Published July 9, 2020 -
CultureLast Of Us 2 Developer Condemns Online Harassment Of People Who Worked On The Game
The Last of Us Part 2 developer Naughty Dog put out a statement over the weekend condemning harassment and threats made against those who worked on the game as director Neil Druckman and others shared some of the vile messages they’ve received following the game’s release. “You can love or hate the game and share…
By Ethan Gach Published July 6, 2020
