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The Last of Us creators compare their blockbuster game’s beginning and ending (interview)

What are you supposed to feel with the drama around the bookend images of Naughty Dog’s big game?

Flamethrowers and super hearing: the gameplay decisions in The Last of Us (interview)

The combat is deliberately more ugly and focused than the spectacular scenes in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series.

The definitive interview with the creators of Sony’s blockbuster The Last of Us (part two)

Why do the Clickers seem like chickens? And what is so haunting about the beginning and ending of this memorable game?

The Last of Us creators react to critics of game’s female characters (exclusive interview)

The Last of Us creators Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley explain how they came up with memorable female characters.

The definitive interview with the creators of Sony’s blockbuster The Last of Us (part 1)

The characters. The inspirations. The intentions. The creators tell us what they aimed for.

Crossbar says it will explode the $60B flash memory market with Resistive RAM, which stores a terabyte on a chip

Crossbar has designed storage chips that are 20 times faster at accessing data than flash memory chips and use 20 times less power.