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Last Of Us Online Game Dev Launching New Studio In Japan
8.7.2025
Game director Vinit Agarwal was working on The Last Of Us Online multiplayer before it was canceled in December 2023. He left developer Naughty Dog earlier this year, and on Tuesday 8 July announced on social media that he’s launching a new game studio in Japan. Read more
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....
Neil Druckmann Exits The Last Of Us Show
2.7.2025
After two seasons, The Last of Us series director Neil Druckmann is stepping down for his role as a showrunner on the HBO adaptation.Read more
Helldivers 2's Fearsome Mech Foes Just Got Way More Terrifying As Jetpack Hulks Take Over
26.6.2025
The post-Super-Earth invasion reprieve for Helldivers 2 players appears to be over as a new threat emerges: jetpack Hulks. A new Major Order contained a stealth update to the heavily armored Automatons that makes them more lethal than ever. Players aren’t sure whether to cheer or cry. Mostly...
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...
A Live-Action Elden Ring Movie Is Coming And No One's Quite Sure How To Feel About It
23.5.2025
The video game-to-Hollywood pipeline is prepping for a doozy. A24 announced Elden Ring is the latest hit game slated to get a live-action adaptation, with Ex Machina and Civil War’s Alex Garland signed on to direct. What exactly the result will be is anyone’s guess, and fans aren’t quite sure...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Six Recap: Days Of You And Me
19.5.2025
Look, y’all, I try to start these recaps with lighthearted jokes and gags that all of us, both lovers and haters of The Last of Us season two, can enjoy, to set a welcoming and pleasant tone before I start unleashing my critiques of a given episode. However, I don’t think I have it in me this week....
Why Last Of Us Fans Are Freaking Out About Pearl Jam This Week
12.5.2025
A lot happened in this week’s episode of The Last of Us, but one moment that has fans all in their feelings was when Ellie (Bella Ramsey) sang half a line of a Pearl Jam song in an empty Seattle theater. If you’re a fan of the Last of Us games, you know how significant “Future Days” (from...
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...
Sony's Newest PlayStation Studio Is Made Up Of Destiny And Fortnite Vets Making A Multiplayer 'Frog-Type' Game
7.5.2025
A new team has joined the ranks of PlayStation’s first-party studios. Alongside Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Housemarque and others now sits teamLFG, a group of ex-Bungie developers working on a mysterious “frog-type” multiplayer project. I have a lot of questions, too.Read more
Revenge Of The Savage Planet: 4 Essential Tips To Start Your Journey
6.5.2025
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a semi-open world game that takes heavy inspiration from the Metroidvania genre, asking you to thoroughly explore every nook and cranny as you work on building yourself into a god of navigation and combat. There’s a lot to see and do in this densely packed world....
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...
Remastering Recent Games Is A Pointless, Sisyphean Task
16.4.2025
Leaks yesterday revealed screenshots from the still unannounced but imminently releasing remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Today, other leakers say Bethesda is also working on a remake of Fallout 3. This happens the same month the PC received The Last of Us Part II Remastered, meaning...
HBO's The Last Of Us Got One Of The Game's Best Scenes Early And Nailed It
14.4.2025
Yesterday, the second season of HBO’s The Last of Us premiered, and I had my gripes with this first episode. HBO’s approach to The Last of Us Part II’s story has stripped away a lot of the mystery and tension present in the game, but I do want to give some props to the team behind the show...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode One Recap: Everybody Hates Joel
14.4.2025
“Future Days,” the first episode of The Last of Us season two, opens with the closing moments of season one. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are standing on a hill with the Jackson settlement they’ll call home in the distance. Ellie, unconvinced by Joel’s story about raiders massacring...
Last Of Us Complete Bundle Announced As Sony Figures Out New Way To Sell These Games Again
10.4.2025
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and Sony figuring out new ways to rerelease the Last Of Us games.”Read more
Fortnite's New Adventure Time Skins Leak And Look Amazing
10.4.2025
Fortnite dataminers have pulled out our first look at the recently teased Adventure Time skins and cosmetic items coming to the battle royale game later this week. And folks, they look pretty dang cool, and very accurate to the original cartoon versions of these popular characters, like Jake...
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...
Ex-PlayStation Boss Shawn Layden Says He Left Sony In Part Because Of Pivot To Live Service
26.3.2025
For many fans, the PlayStation 4 years were defined by blockbuster single-player GOTY contenders like God of War and Spider-Man. Then the PS5 arrived in 2020 and Sony turned its attention to live-service gaming with the hopes of capturing a piece of the growing multiplayer market. Former executive...
Tactical Shooter Promoted By Shroud Shutting Down Just A Year After $30 Million Investment
13.3.2025
Spectre Divide is a neat tactical shooter that struggled after server issues at launch, mixed reviews on Steam, and $90 shop skins that rankled some players. It’s now shutting down less than a month after coming to consoles and just over a year after securing $30 million in investment funding. Read...