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In the latest edition of Edge magazine, creative director Neil Druckmann discusses some of the technical difficulties encountered by Naughty Dog while porting The Last of Us to PS4. Apparently the task is not as simple as it sounds, even though the Remastered Edition will be more or less the same as the PS3 version of the game. As you might imagine, the main difference will the improved graphics quality thanks to the Play Station 4’s more powerful hardware. With great graphics comes great di...

The Murlocs of Hearthstone are here to help you celebrate the holidays. Normally, these would be creatures you’d steer away from, but with this hour long video from Blizzard you can get into the Christmas spirit by listening to the undulating sounds of their carols. Their sounds according to Wowpedia seems to be a guttural language which makes it impossible for outsiders to interpret. Hearthstone released in March of 2014 and remains a popular card based game to this day. You can check out the...

There are a lot of games that depend on their sound design to portray the atmosphere they’re going for. In the upcoming game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice players will have to deal with hearing voices in the main character’s head alongside her. Developers Ninja Theory released an update video going into depth on just how they went about making the sound as accurate as possible. They went so far as to research auditory verbal hallucinations with specialists in order to best portray what it w...