Action-adventure games

Screenshot: HBO MaxIf there’s a genre that won’t die, it’s survivors doing their best (and sometimes their worst) amid a zombie apocalypse. Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us PlayStation games offer a particularly compelling take on the story—which is why the series is soon making the jump to HBO Max. Today, we’ve got close-up looks at the main characters thanks to a series of new posters.The adaptation, which arrives January 15,  stars The Mandalorian’s Pedro Pascal as Joel, a man out for redemption in a world riddled with…

Image: Sony Santa MonicaCome this Friday, the PlayStation 5's big hit for the holiday season, God of War: Ragnarok, will finally release. The second installment in Sony Santa Monica’s soft reboot of the hack-and-slash franchise (which started with the PlayStation 4's God of War) isn’t just getting good reviews, it’s getting great ones from the big outlets. At time of writing, some writers have called it one of the best PlayStation games ever an pretty high in their personal rankings of the series overall.The original God…

Screenshot: HBOFinally, a better look at Pedro Pascal as Joel in HBO’s The Last of Us series. The Mandalorian star shows his face as an apocalypse survivor out for redemption in a world riddled with “clickers,” humans who have mutated into zombies thanks to the worldwide Cordyceps Brain Infection outbreak. Here Pascal plays the lead of the successful PlayStation video game franchise, and (once again) is tasked with a mission to get a kid through a very wild frontier. In an HBO reunion, Game of Thrones standout Bella…

Image: Sucker Punch Productions/PlayStation StudiosEarlier in the summer, PlayStation developer Sucker Punch revealed that despite months of rumors saying otherwise, no one—not themselves or another developer—were working on a follow up to either the Sly Cooper or Infamous franchises. With the studio now focused on what’s most likely a Ghost of Tsushima sequel, the two franchises that helped it establish a presence as a top tier PlayStation developer are on ice, and will likely remain that way for another couple of…

The A.V. ClubDeadspinGizmodoJalopnikJezebelKotakuLifehackerQuartzThe RootThe TakeoutThe OnionThe InventoryTech. Science. Culture.ShopSubscribeHomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9VideoGizmodo@20Tech. Science. Culture.HomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9VideoGizmodo@20AboutGizmodo AdvisorGizmodo StoreExplore our other sitesAdvertisingPrivacyJobsTerms of Use© 2022 G/O MediaHomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9VideoGizmodo@20…

The Assassin’s Creed franchise has been going for so long that a good amount of its fanbase has literally grown up with it. Ever since it first stealthed its way to audiences’ hearts in 2007, the games have used its sci-fi memory hopping framing device to jump around from time period to time period. Those time periods are paramount to the franchise, and at this point are one of the biggest factors in determining if a particular entry is worth picking up.But if there’s one notable gap that Ubisoft has avoided across the…

Image: LegoThis past weekend, the late Chadwick Boseman was honored with a posthumous Creative Arts Emmys award for his voice work on the animated Marvel What If...? series. Today, it’s Lego’s turn to pay tribute to the actor, and the iconic character he portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with an incredibly detailed Black Panther life-size bust.The 2,961-piece set assembles like the Avengers to create an 18-inch tall Black Panther bust posed atop a display base with a stylized name plate. The character was first…

A well-edited trailer can make any movie look good, but Hollywood has several minutes to convince a movie theater’s captive audience that a flick is worth seeing. Advertisers limited to just 30 seconds of broadcast TV, when viewers are eager to do anything but pay attention, have a much harder job. But that just encourages more creativity.I don’t remember the last time I’ve voluntarily sat through an ad that wasn’t holding a longer video hostage, but commercials were a big part of my formative years before ad-free…

Image: Crystal Dynamics/Square EnixBack in 2018, MGM released the Tomb Raider reboot film starring Alicia Vikander that did solidly at the box office. A sequel seemed like a sure thing for Vikander’s take on Lara Croft, which was largely modeled after the events of Crystal Dynamics’ reboot trilogy, but then the pandemic cut off its production date, and mum’s been the word ever since. Now not only is it not happening, another reboot is taking its place.According to The Wrap, MGM’s now lost the rights to Tomb Raider as a…

The A.V. ClubDeadspinGizmodoJalopnikJezebelKotakuLifehackerThe RootThe TakeoutThe OnionThe InventoryTech. Science. Culture.ShopSubscribeHomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9EN ESPAÑOLVideoTech. Science. Culture.HomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9EN ESPAÑOLVideoAboutGizmodo AdvisorGizmodo StoreExplore our other sitesAdvertisingPrivacyJobsTerms of Use© 2022 G/O MediaHomeLatestTechReviewsHow ToScienceSpaceflightEartherio9EN ESPAÑOLVideo…