I've talked at length about the Creepy Cull of female protagonists in the game industry, where women are shunted off promotional materials and deemed unworthy to act as playable characters. It seems the scythe is wielded not ...
| Jim Sterling |
There won't be many games threatening to draw your attention away from the spectacle of E3 this week, but what we are getting is rather splendid. The Last of Us seems to have impressed just about everyone, including th...
| Fraser Brown |
British tabloid The Daily Mail has a review for The Last of Us, a game enjoying perhaps the most unanimous critical acclaim in videogame history. The Mail, ever a bastion of wisdom and judicious thinking, feels it doesn'...
| Jim Sterling |
In the past five years, the notion of a zombie apocalypse has grown from cult horror amusement to worldwide mainstream fascination. The videogame industry latched onto it with eagerness, and this generation has drowned us in ...
| Jim Sterling |
Update: An official trailer seems to have popped up now. We've added that video below. Following yesterday's screenshots, we finally get an in-action peak at the The Last of Us, coming by way of Spanish gaming site Hobby Con...
| Abel Girmay |
In "It's about damn time" news, Naughty Dog has finally decided to give us a morsel of information on the elusive multiplayer mode of The Last of Us. And by information, I mean let your mind run wild with whatever you can gle...
| Abel Girmay |
Sony has just opened up pre-orders for the Digital Edition of The Last of Us, due out on June 14, and for the game's Season Pass, providing some nuggets of information about what the post-release content for the game will loo...
| Conrad Zimmerman |
I feel like we've been hearing a lot about The Last of Us lately, but that's far from a bad thing, as I'm finally starting to get a better idea of how it'll actually play. Here's more talk about the action-survival game, dir...
| Jordan Devore |
I was skeptical of The Last of Us. Despite all the hype and high promises, to me, it looked like post-apocalyptic Uncharted. I wasn't sold on the dynamic nature of how the game progressed, and as we all know, zombies have been literally done to death in the past five years. Then, I got a chance to actually play it. How many days until June 14th again?
| Chris Carter |
Here's today's formerly-live Destructoid Show, on which I wear a bad shirt again. Nintendo had one of their little Nintendo Direct press conference thingies this morning, and a bunch of news came out of that. They're also d...
| Max Scoville |
I'd tell you everything this new behind the scenes clip of The Last of Us contains but I had to shut it off halfway through. The enemies -- the focus of the clip -- freak me out too much, which is to say that fungi freaks me...
| Allistair Pinsof |
[Warning: I don't have any spoilers in the body of this post, but tread carefully in our comments below. Destructoid's readership is made up of incredible people, but a few assholes sneak in from time to time. They could ruin...
| Dale North |
Europe is getting two special editions of The Last of Us and Sony has provided a couple of new videos to give us a better look at what each edition contains. The Joel and Ellie editions each include the same stuff, the only ...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Naughty Dog has revealed it had to force the hand of its focus testers in order to get them to acknowledge a female perspective. Originally, The Last of Us was exclusively using male gamers to gauge audience interest, until t...
| Jim Sterling |
Well kids, it looks as though The Destructoid Show missed April Fool's Day, which is a bummer, but hey, here's a totally normal episode that isn't themed or anything. Well, for starters, Grand Theft Auto V's box art has been...
| Max Scoville |
The game industry doesn't want female characters. That is allegedly the message publishers have been sending to developers. As female characters get hidden from the front covers of games and projects with leading ladies are ...
| Jim Sterling |