Game on! What The Last of Us and Fallout teach us about video game adaptations
Enter Netflix, waving big bucks. Its target is a homespun UK cartoon that went viral on YouTube and spawned a spin-off video game. The story’s creator takes the Netflix deal, leaving purist fans furious at her “sellout”. So furious that she winds up sprawled in the very graveyard where her story is set. Stabbed to death.
Phew! Yes, video game story arcs can be hot properties – witness The Last of Us, returning in triumph this month for series two – but are they really to die for?
