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The Last of Us 2 is meant to invoke powerful feelings from the player. From the deadnaming of Lev to the killing of pet dogs, the game is meant to produce pure human reactions, such as the way players will struggle with their feelings towards Abby throughout her journey. Starting her off as the antagonist and then experiencing the story through her eyes compounds those reactions, even if the player doesn’t get to see what happens to her after she miraculously makes it out alive, but that’s all part of the narrative....

A group of fans has come together to form a production team for a The Last of Us fan film. Director, cinematographer, and editor Samuel Triggs’s fan film has been underway in development, but Samuel and the rest of the collaborative team behind it are ready to share more. Today, coinciding with The Last of Us Day, the fan film has received a teaser trailer alongside a release window for the project....

The upcoming multiplayer entry in The Last of Us series initially started as an online mode for the sequel, and it can be assumed that the two groups it would have let players control are the aforementioned WLF and Seraphites. Though the game has since grown significantly, becoming a standalone project, any Factions-like content it has may still focus on these two groups. If that is the case, Naughty Dog has a unique opportunity to further flesh out The Last of Us 2’s version of Seattle....

Throughout The Last of Us Part 1, players can find optional conversations that help organically grow characters outside of cutscenes and combat areas. Helping to tell the award-winning story, players are encouraged to engage with this dialogue by being rewarded with points for unlockable extras and a trophy for finding them all. Optional conversations are triggered by approaching a character in a specific area and interacting with them; by default, this is with the Triangle button on PlayStation 5....

As spotted by The Gamer, a very short clip from the upcoming The Last of Us was uploaded to the developer’s YouTube channel recently. At just 12 seconds long, there isn’t really a lot on display, but what’s there is quite telling. In a short span of time, the video shows Joel standing at the docks in the PS4 version, and then it swipes to show the inbound PS5 remake....

The seemingly out of nowhere update likely has something to do with The Last of Us Remastered’s inclusion in the PS Plus Collection for PS5. With the special package including over a dozen of the PS4’s most popular games, Naughty Dog seems to be preparing for the PS5 rerelease by further improving the critical and commercial success ahead of time. While the 1.11 update was likely intended for PlayStation 5 players, it is nice to see that PS4 users are benefiting as well....

Lapid, 73, a former TV commentator and leader of the centrist Shinui Party, has attracted Likud defectors in droves with his campaign against the ultra-Orthodox, who are exempt from Army service and live mostly on government support. Lapid wants to cobble together the first all-secular coalition in Israel’s history, and he may soon be in a position to make that happen. Polls taken last week, after a leaked police report suggested Sharon and his family might have lied about a $1....

NORDLAND: You were brave to go into Mogadishu. HOLMES: It’s improved in the past two weeks. Shooting in the capital has eased. Yes, I understand the transitional government is claiming there’s nothing to worry about now, that the city is completely under control. Obviously when three bombs go off in one day, it’s not nothing. The situation is not absolutely normal. And when more than 300,000 internally displaced people are still out in the bush without access to shelter, food and medical care, it’s a very serious humanitarian situation....

While only a minority of car models improved their year-on-year sales, there were still clear winners and losers on the car showroom forecourts. New-vehicle inventory to sales data is a useful metric in gauging how vehicle models have performed against manufacturers’ expectations. The longer a vehicle remains on the lot, the more likely the manufacturer overestimated how popular it was going to be. Pickup trucks, SUVs, crossovers, and electric vehicles were the year’s fastest sellers, according to Mark Strand, industry intelligence director for Cox Automotive—the company which used the data to compile the list below....

In May of 2021, Microsoft announced that June 15, 2022, would be Internet Explorer’s final day. Even though the once-popular browser has had its ups and downs over the years, experts say its legacy will last beyond its expiration date. “Much like Hoover was a brand that became just as widely used as the term vacuum, it is likely that Internet Explorer will keep having this impact long after the tool itself is put to rest,” Alex Magnin, the former head of revenue strategy at GIPHY, wrote in an email to Lifewire....

The trailer begins with the refrain of “open your eyes” from an as-yes-unseen female voice. It marks the first time that fans have heard the voice acting that was confirmed for the new game, which is was a surprising choice for a series that had previously conveyed most story and emotion through gesture and noises. Viewers of this The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild trailer are then treated with lush, scene-setting shots of Hyrule, from healthy-looking fields through to forests, before settling at the heights of what is likely to be Hyrule Castle....

Luckily for Nintendo and long-time fans of Link’s adventures, the new Legend of Zelda game absolutely delivered. Shigeru Miyamoto’s latest creation looked like the perfect modern-day adaptation of the franchise, and gamers quickly forgot Nintendo’s otherwise lackluster E3 2016 in favor of discussing just how cool Breath of the Wild looks. In a recent interview with Game Informer, Miyamoto revealed that Breath of the Wild’s massive open world might have been the product of a rather fruitful partnership:...

A new piece of artwork was tweeted out recently on the official Japanese The Legend of Zelda Twitter account, and it features Link climbing a mountain that strongly resembles a giant pumpkin, as well as the caption “Happy Halloween”. This is a small but welcome update from Nintendo about the upcoming Zelda installment, which has received a fresh wave of attention recently thanks to the release of some stunning new Breath of the Wild gameplay footage just a couple of weeks ago....

Dubbing their game The Legend of Zelda: 30 Year Tribute, the development duo has remade the first The Legend of Zelda in a voxel-based 3D style, building the game entirely in WebGL. The pair, giving only the names Scott and Matt, has given other fans of the classic franchise an entire new way to enjoy the title that started it all. What’s more, this version of the title is available for free, with any interested gamer able to head over to the game’s website to play it in-browser....

The Portuguese is renowned for throwing himself into any position he fills, with no stone left unturned in the pursuit of success and silverware. He is currently undertaking that job at United, with the Red Devils having charged him with the task of bringing the good times back to Old Trafford. Karanka, who formed part of Mourinho’s coaching team in a previous role at Real Madrid, expects a proven winner to have everything under control in Manchester, with his obsessive nature witnessed firsthand in the Spanish capital....

Episcopalians, the American variant of Anglicans, are no longer the decorous flock known as “God’s frozen people.” Their meltdown accelerated last Sunday with the consecration of Gene Robinson, a noncelibate gay man, as New Hampshire’s bishop. Many Anglican bishops from the Eastern and Southern hemispheres, representing the vast majority of Anglicans, and many conservative Episcopalians say the liberals’ worship of “inclusiveness” has at last produced intolerable incoherence. The Episcopalians’ intramural argument illuminates the limits of tolerance as an organizing principle for any institution....

Playing alongside footage of the president’s return to the White House after his stint at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the reworked song criticizes Trump’s behavior before and after he tested positive for coronavirus Showing the president removing his mask while on the White House balcony, the song begins: “Don’t cry for me White House staffers, the truth is I will infect you. “All through my tweeting, my mad existence, I broke my promise, won’t keep my distance....

It may take far less time than that. Electronic books are popping up everywhere-anything from baseball-trivia collections in the shape of tiny pocket calculators to elaborate $2,000 software c require state-of-the-art desktop computers. Some electronic books are already more popular than their print counterparts. Michael Mellin, Random House’s publisher in charge of electronic books, estimates that the handful of one-volume print encyclopedias introduced since 1990 have sold about 100,000 copies....

We were in New Zealand! And the scenery was spectacular. Distances are short here: You can go from a wet tropical rain forest with gigantic tree ferns to snow-covered mountain peaks in under two hours. We keep comparing the emerald green fields, snowy peaks, and windswept coasts to Big Sur, the Colorado Rockies, Scotland, the Pacific Northwest, and the Chilean Lake District. And we’re here in the dead of New Zealand’s winter....

Here’s a look at some of the stars who will be trying to win the green jacket at this year’s Masters. MORE: Live leaderboard