The Last of Us Part II
Ellie and Dina are big characters in The Last of Us Part II.
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The Last of Us Part II game directors unravel their E3 demo for us

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Developer Naughty Dog released a trailer of The Last of Us Part II that depicts Ellie’s life four years after events of The Last of Us (my favorite game), which debuted in 2013.

The scene juxtaposed Ellie having fun with another young woman at a dance in a church. But just as Ellie and the woman share an intimate moment, the scene shifts to horrific violence as Ellie hunts and then becomes the hunted.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.