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HBO’s The Last of Us is the rare show letting a video game actor reprise her role

Merle Dandridge, an actor who’s had a long career in television and theater, will be reprising her role of Marlene in HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation, according to Variety and Deadline. Dandridge’s casting is particularly notable because actors in video games are rarely presented with the opportunity to play their characters in live action… Read more

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s accessibility features try to make a hectic game easier to play

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart brings alternate realities to the beloved PlayStation franchise on June 11th, and along with leveraging the PlayStation 5’s SSD, Insomniac Games announced new accessibility features on Thursday that build on the studio’s recent work and address the limited options presented in the earlier PS4 Ratchet & Clank. As an action… Read more

The Last of Us Part II gets long-awaited 60fps update for PS5

The Last of Us Part II is getting a long-awaited PlayStation 5 patch on Wednesday that lets you play the game at a targeted 60fps frame rate, Sony announced. “Once patch 1.08 for The Last of Us Part II is installed on your PS5, you will find a toggle in the Display options that allows… Read more

Naughty Dog has already outlined The Last of Us Part III

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming The Last of Us is one of the PlayStation’s most prestigious first-party franchises, with both entries garnering near universal critical acclaim (despite Part II seeing more controversy from fans), and selling millions of copies. Therefore, it may come as little surprise that the… Read more

Sony is reportedly remaking The Last of Us for PS5 as it chases big hits

Sony is reportedly working on another remake of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us — first released in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, followed by a PlayStation 4 remaster in 2014. The latest version of the game is intended for the PlayStation 5 and would reportedly feature the gameplay and graphical improvements introduced in 2020’s… Read more

When games are hard on their hands, some players turn their voices into controllers

As both a software engineer and an avid player of strategy games, chaosparrot struggled to reckon with the damage his work and hobbies had done to his hands. By 2017, the consistent pain of his repetitive stress injuries was bad enough that he could no longer type comfortably or enjoy the games he loved to… Read more

GTA V was the third best selling game in 2020

While each year sees an abundance of new and innovative video games released into the world, it is almost a guarantee that the best selling game of the year will be Call of Duty, a sports game, or a Rockstar title. Such is the case with 2020, where the top 3 spots are occupied by… Read more

The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal will play Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us TV show

Pedro Pascal, who you might recognize as The Mandalorian himself, has been cast as Joel in HBO’s TV adaptation of The Last of Us, as first reported by Deadline. The casting was confirmed shortly after by The Last of Us creative director (and an executive producer and writer for the show) Neil Druckmann. Pascal’s confirmed… Read more

10 best remastered games: The top Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC gems to play now

(Pocket-lint) – Feeling all nostalgic? Well, if you want to dabble in a bit of old-school gaming then there’s no need to go digging the PS1 or Dreamcast out of the attic – so many of those machines’ older games have been lovingly picked up and remastered by developers. No scratched CD nightmares or cartridge-blowing… Read more

PS5: Job advertisements suggest new secret projects

In the past, job advertisements from various companies indicated planned projects. So also in the current case of the games company Naughty Dog and the Santa Monica Studio. As can be seen from a corresponding publication on Twitter, the Santa Monica development studio is currently looking for a director for an unannounced game. This could… Read more