Last of Us

Sony had the most solid showing of the platform makers at E3. Microsoft focused on the Xbox as media device, while skimping on the game content. Sony, meanwhile, kept its eye on the games, and though the show featured some bewildering missteps, it opened and closed extremely strong. For many, the story of the show was… Ellen Page. Naughty Dog’s highly anticipated The Last of Us is centered around a 14 year old girl named Ellie that bore a distinctive resemblance to the “Juno” actress. Her design was slightly changed before E3, when it was revealed that Heavy Rain developer was behind a new game called Beyond: Two Souls… where you are actually playing as Ellen Page thanks to performance capture (the same as was behind Avatar). Beyond seemed much further behind in its development process than Last of Us, but the extensive teaser hints at a moody, tension-filled action game where Page’s character has a connection with a powerful, destructive poltergeist and is constantly on the run from federal