No./1 Is this game over for the video-game curse?
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HBO’s console adaptation THE LAST OF US is set to deliver fungal thrills and huge emotion
[ EDITED BY BETH WEBB]
“IT’S AN OPEN-and-shut case: this is the greatest story that has ever been told in video games.” Big words? Or damning with faint praise? Considering it comes from the creator of HBO’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl, it’s a claim we should probably pay heed to. Craig Mazin is, after all, a man who knows a thing or two about story: his 2019 dramatisation of the infamous nuclear accident has been widely hailed as a TV masterpiece. And when he had his pick of almost any project imaginable as a follow-up, he chose to adapt a PlayStation game.