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a still image from the HBO Max adaptation of The Last of Us with Joel on his front porch at night holding the acoustic guitar he made for Ellie as she stands nearby with a stern look on her face

Games are More Than The Last of Us

By William Fox • May 23rd, 2025

The Last of Us gives the player no real agency.

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The Stories of Virtual Fragments

By Clint Morrison Jr. • November 22nd, 2023

Modern games are littered with fragmented narratives, digital ephemera often left obscured or abstracted in their incompleteness.

Forms in Light
An overgrown, post-apocalyptic city environment from The Last of Us. A rusted city bus covered in vines and greenery features prominently.

After Us

By Justin Reeve • May 11th, 2023

There’s a remarkably prevalent misconception that if people suddenly disappeared from the planet, the environment would eventually return to how it was before we started transforming the landscape.

Screenshot from the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us, featuring Kansas City rebellion leader Kathleen addressing some imprisoned collaborated with a wry and unsettling smile on her face

The Last of Us on HBO

By Amanda Hudgins • April 11th, 2023

The Last of Us is not the greatest story in video games.

Open World
A screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2, where Arthur in his trademark black hat is firing a rifle in the distance while a lone lamp hangs overhead

Two Deaths

By Edward Smith • January 9th, 2023

What I see I guess in all this are microcosmic pictures, metaphors, illustrations of how goddamn unknowable everything seems nowadays.

Casting Deep Meteo
two characters fighting a skeleton monster on a lit ledge.

Greak and the Deft Power of Short Stories

By Levi Rubeck • September 21st, 2021

Greak doesn’t overstay its welcome, and is clearsighted in its goals from the beginning.

Casting Deep Meteo

“To Steady the Box”

By Levi Rubeck • October 22nd, 2020

We are meant to consider that this ability to compress their feelings into a box and hoist it themselves until their arms go numb is a kind of strength.

Maybe The Last Of Us Part II Was Trying To Frustrate Us?

By Mike Gillis • October 1st, 2020

“Why have I been blindly following instructions to kill these digital characters? Am I… a monster?”

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Watching Myself Die

By Phillip Russell • September 22nd, 2020

On Blackness in The Last of Us

Letter From the Editor

Unwinnable Monthly – September 2020

By Stu Horvath • September 21st, 2020

Your guided tour to this month’s table of contents.

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