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If You Don’t Want To Play The Last Of Us, You Can Now Read It Instead
24.7.2025
I don’t have any room to judge all the times Naughty Dog has found some way to repackage The Last of Us and its sequel because I keep buying every new box set the studio releases. However, the newest way the company has found to print money without making a new game isn’t a bad live-action...
Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Movie Trailer Takes Us Back To The Original Location
24.7.2025
2023's Five Nights at Freddy’s ended up being a big blockbuster hit for horror makers Blumhouse, so it wasn’t a surprise that the company fast-tracked a sequel. And now we have our first official trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which features more lore from the original horror games and even...
The Last of Us Could End With One More Season, Rather Than The Planned Two
16.7.2025
HBO and its representatives have stated multiple times that the plan was for its live-action adaptation of The Last of Us to span at least four seasons. The show just wrapped up its second season, covering roughly the first half of The Last of Us Part II’s story, and showrunner Craig Mazin has said...
Naughty Dog Somehow Found Another Way To Get You To Replay The Last Of Us Part II
8.7.2025
There’s a scene near the end of The Last of Us Part II in which Dina, the girlfriend and baby mama of protagonist Ellie, begs her to let her inane revenge quest go. She has a family and a life here on their farm in Jackson, and that is something precious in this post-apocalyptic world....
The Internet Reacts To The Last Of Us’ Second Season Finale
28.5.2025
The Last of Us concluded its second season on Sunday with a pretty big cliffhanger, as HBO plans to adapt the story of The Last of Us Part II across three seasons in total. Here at Kotaku, I’ve been recapping each episode of the show, and I have not been having a good time. Frankly, I find it to...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Seven Recap: Abby Road
26.5.2025
We made it, everybody. We’ve reached the end of HBO’s The Last of Us. Wait, sorry, I’m getting word in my earpiece that…we’re only halfway done with it because this show’s going for four seasons. At this point, I’m mostly feeling deflated. Last week’s episode was such a catastrophic bummer that...
The Last Of Us Show Made A Major Change From The Game This Week, And Neil Druckmann Explains Why
21.5.2025
The Last of Us season two’s penultimate episode was almost entirely flashbacks of Joel and Ellie’s lives together in Jackson. Some of these were plucked straight from the Last of Us Part II video game, others are brand new for the series. The most important one, however, was Joel and Ellie’s final...
Last Of Us Fans Are Bracing Themselves For Next Week’s Finale After Seeing One Clip From The Episode
20.5.2025
If long-time The Last of Us fans have learned anything watching HBO’s second season, it’s that knowing something is coming doesn’t make it any less painful to watch a second time. The live-action adaptation of The Last of Us Part II has been divisive (I fucking hated it, personally), but it’s still...
One Of The Most Important Details From This Week’s Last Of Us Episode Is A Blink-And-You’ll-Miss-It Reveal
19.5.2025
This week’s episode of The Last of Us had a lot of drama to unpack and take in, but one of the most significant details in the flashback-heavy episode is pretty easy to miss. I’ve watched the episode multiple times and didn’t catch it until I saw people mentioning it online, and it explains one...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Five Recap: Seeing Red
12.5.2025
Ellie finally got a little bit of revenge this week. How are we feeling? Not as cathartic as you thought it was gonna be, huh? HBO’s take on The Last of Us is finally back in the trenches after a few weeks of levity, or at the very least with its grisly revenge plot out of sight and mostly out...
The Last Of Us Fans Are Divided On The Show’s Ellie And Dina Romance
5.5.2025
After four agonizing weeks of waiting, Dina and Ellie finally consummated their relationship in The Last of Us during this week’s episode. The live-action adaptation has taken a few creative liberties with the girl’s love story, and that meant rather than starting the game out in a relationship,...
Did You Catch The Change In The Last Of Us’ Opening Credits This Week?
28.4.2025
If there’s one thing The Last of Us loves to do, it’s twist the knife. Did you feel like you were starting to recover from the events of last week’s devastating episode? Are you ready to sit back and relax with your favorite post-apocalyptic show, even after Pedro Pascal’s grisly end in episode...
Hey Last Of Us Newbies, Are Y’all Doing Okay?
22.4.2025
It’s been a difficult week for The Last of Us fans. Two episodes into the second season of HBO’s live-action series, fans are experiencing the traumatic events of The Last of Us Part II, the game on which this season is based. Those of us who played it dealt with this five years ago and are being...
If You're Still Shook From The Last Of Us, Here's The Cast Being Happy And Hugging
21.4.2025
Last night’s episode of The Last of Us was pretty brutal, especially if you didn’t already know what was coming from playing the games. If you, like me, would like a palate cleanser for all this anguish and violence, perhaps I can interest you in lead actors Pedro Pascal, Kaitlyn Dever, and Bella...
The Internet Reacts To Last Night's Big Scene In The Last Of Us
21.4.2025
If you’re a long-time fan of something, one of the only ways to recapture playing, viewing, or reading it for the first time is to experience it vicariously through newcomers. That’s what The Last of Us fans got to do last night in season two’s second episode, as millions of viewers who never...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Two Recap: When Wolves Attack
21.4.2025
Welcome back to another recap of The Last of Us season two. It’s the big one, folks. Please leave all your golf clubs at the door on your way in so as not to impart any more emotional damage to your fellow readers. Get your “Fore!” or “birdie” jokes out of your system. Anyone who played The Last...
Abby Called Joel ‘Handsome’ In The Last Of Us, And The Internet Agreed
16.4.2025
We’re only one episode into The Last of Us’ second season and the memes are already flowing, with one line from Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby feeding into the internet’s thirst for Joel actor Pedro Pascal.Read more
The Last Of Us, Season 2: The Kotaku Review
7.4.2025
In the years since The Last of Us Part II launched in 2020, I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon when people talk about Naughty Dog’s divisive sequel. Some people talk about Ellie’s revenge story in ways that seem incongruous with the game I experienced. Where I would call The Last of Us Part II...
Neil Druckmann Says 'Don't Bet' On The Last Of Us Part III
5.3.2025
We’re about a month away from season two of The Last of Us premiering on Max, and Neil Druckmann, the director of the series of games the show is based on, is doing interviews to promote its return. Naturally, those conversations end up drifting over to the future of the video game series that...
PlayStation Hit With More Layoffs Following Recent Game Cancellations
4.3.2025
The PlayStation-owned studio Visual Arts was hit with with fresh layoffs this week amid a further restructuring of Sony’s U.S. game development operations. While some of the cuts included staff who had contributed to recently canceled projects like an upcoming live-service game at Bend Studio,...