It’s insane realizing that it’s been over 40 years since Mario Bros. burst onto the arcade scene before eventually taking the world by storm again with the launch of Super Mario Bros. just two years after that. Let me put…
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Last month, Square Enix wrapped up their “Crystalline Resonance: Final Fantasy Piano Concert Tour.” We unfortunately weren’t able to attend the show nearest to any of our territories due to previous engagements, but we were granted a quick moment with…
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When The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel was released on the PlayStation 3 in late 2015, it was a weird instance for all sorts of reasons. For one, the PlayStation 4 had come out the month before, so…
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I wasn’t okay with the original game’s ending when I played it, and I have similar feelings with the way this finale ended, but the ending isn’t why I thought this was the weakest episode of the season.
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The penultimate episode of The Last of Us does what it’s been doing all season; it stays very faithful to the source material while also fleshing out a bit of the world building while also making changes seemingly for the…
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HBO absolutely delivers in what’s perhaps the most anticipated episode of “The Last of Us” yet.
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Now a little more past the halfway point, “The Last of Us” viewers have seen more than their fair share of loss, and despite the show’s slow-building style, it’s always been relatively quick. Episode 6 treads the waters on what…
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It’s time for the Sam and Henry episode.
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After last week’s gem of an episode that stands alone as a first class example of what this medium is capable of, viewers were essentially owed more Joel and Ellie, and that’s exactly what we got in episode 4. The…
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The second episode of HBO’s “The Last of Us” garnered 5.7 million viewers, and a couple days ago the network announced that the series was renewed for a second season–something to cheer Naughty Dog for, especially going into what was…
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Directed by Neil Druckmann himself, “Infected” might be a polarizing episode as it fundamentally changes some of the rules we thought existed in Naughty Dog’s beautiful but damaged world
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It’s pleasing to see the pilot of “The Last of Us” hit where it should, and seeing what happens next even though a lot of us know what’s going to happen should really be a treat.
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