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The Essential Video Game Adaptations

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Olly Dyche on the essential video game adaptations… Video game adaptations have notoriously garnered a reputation of being fairly awful, with the likes of Doom, Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and House the Dead being great examples. However, within the fold of poor video game adaptations there have also been some good – and […]

The Last of Us second episode ratings up 22% from premiere

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Following last week’s impressive debut, The Last of Us has jumped 22% for a record-breaking second-week viewership of 5.7M viewers on Sunday night. The videogame adaptation got off to a strong start, drawing HBO’s second largest figures for a debut since 2010 with 4.7 million across linear and HBO Max, which has grown to 18 […]

The Last of Us trailer teases what lies ahead for Joel and Ellie

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Following its series premiere this past Sunday, HBO has released a trailer for its video game adaptation The Last of Us, which teases what to expect in the weeks ahead as the series takes us through Joel and Ellie’s perilous journey. Watch it below… The Last of Us story takes place twenty years after modern […]

The Last of Us featurette takes us onto the set of HBO’s video game adaptation

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With a little over a week to go until The Last of Us premieres on HBO Max, a new featurette has been released for the hotly-anticipated video game adaptation which goes behind the scenes of the series and includes interviews with stars Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, and members of the creative team; watch it […]

The Last of Us won’t overstay its welcome, promising only a limited run

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If you were worried The Last of Us would stretch itself too thin, fear not, as the creators say the HBO series will stay true to the games. Game creator Neil Druckmann and one of the minds behind the HBO series Craig Mazin dove into where they see the story heading after adapting The Last […]

HBO’s The Last of Us will be less violent than the video games

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If you’re familiar with The Last of Us, the brutality is often a selling point. The games are pretty violent, but it’s all in service to the story and often ups the emotional weight. But for many, it’s a bit gratuitous at times. That’s why the creators behind HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us […]

Jensen Ackles says he petitioned to play Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us

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While Pedro Pascal is undoubtedly a beloved actor and will give his all in playing Joel from The Last of Us, in an alternate world we could have had another fan-favorite performer in the role as Jensen Ackles let fans know he wanted the part in the HBO adaptation. During a recent Supernatural convention, Ackles […]

Joel and Ellie must endure and survive in the latest tease for HBO’s The Last of Us

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At this point we can just skip the holiday season and fast-forward to the most anticipated thing on our calendar for the next few months, and that’s HBO’s adaptation of the acclaimed video game The Last of Us. Following the release of the official trailer earlier this month, HBO have teased a few more scenes […]

HBO Max’s The Last of Us gets a new trailer

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Following a batch of character posters for The Last of Us, HBO Max has released a trailer for the hotly-anticipated video game adaptation which features new footage of Joel and Ellie’s brutal journey through the post-apocalyptic landscape, as well as offering a peek at a bloater; check it out below… The Last of Us story […]