In The Last of Us Part II, no one's hands are clean. In The Last of Us Part II, no one's hands are clean. For years now, some of the best, wildest, most moving or revealing stories we've been telling ourselves have come not from books, movies or TV, but from video games. So we're running an occasional series, Reading The Game, in which we take a look at some of these games from a literary perspective. Warning: If you haven't played The Last of Us Part II yet, there are some spoilers ahead.

Note: This article contains major spoilers for "The Last of Us Part II" and 2013′s "The Last of Us." A man is shot in the chest and chokes on his own blood. A pregnant woman falls, fatally stabbed in her neck. They just wanted to reach Santa Barbara. Now they're dead because a woman needed information. The murderer, standing amid their bodies, is not the little girl you remember. Five years after the events of the first game, Ellie is cold, brutal and often merciless. Driven by revenge, the girl we knew from "The Last of Us" has morphed into something more sinister. Her optimism is dimmed, her humor muted -- her pun book, once filled with jokes, has been replaced by a journal. "The Last of Us Part II" chronicles Ellie's descent from innocence to match the darkness of the post-apocalyptic hellscape around her. The death of Joel, her guardian and traveling partner from the first game, has set Ellie's moral compass spinning as she struggles to find purpose.

After being kicked to the curb in favor of a new "RTX" brand that signifies the inclusion of dedicated RT and tensor cores that enable real-time ray tracing and AI-enhanced gaming, Nvidia's tried-and-true mainstay returns for the release of the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. Yes, that means this $280-plus GPU lacks the cutting-edge capabilities of its bigger siblings, like the GeForce RTX 2060. But by ditching all the extra hardware, Nvidia was able to focus the GTX 1660 Ti's efforts on just plain kicking ass in games. The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti delivers outstanding 1080p and solid 1440p gaming performance on a par with last-gen's $380 GTX 1070, without the massive price increase witnessed in its RTX-laden cousins--it's only $20 more than what the GTX 1060 launched at. This card beats the snot out of AMD's Radeon RX 590, even though its starting price is $10 lower.

BlizzCon 2018 is the end of an era. Just a few weeks ago, Blizzard announced that co-founder and longtime president Mike Morhaime would be stepping down, replaced with J. Allen Brack. Today's Opening Ceremony kicked off with Morhaime saying goodbye, and you know what? He was a great presenter, not in the overly slick way I'm accustomed to seeing at these sorts of shows, but with a quietspoken passion for the company he'd helped guide for 20-plus years. Blizzard lives on, though, and while 2019 won't be the most exciting year there's still quite a bit in store--including the long-awaited Warcraft III remaster.

Note: This review was originally published July 3, 1991. The film is being re-released in 3D. And yes, without a doubt, they will come. He is the gifted James Cameron, the consensus choice as the action director of his generation. What he's built is "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," the most eagerly awaited film of the summer and one of the most expensive (officially, $88 million and counting) ever made.

Now I was alive again, feeling the strong pulse of electrical current surging through me. And the acid lay spattered over the stone floor beyond, hissing and bubbling. Someone had knocked it away at the last second. And had reconnected a battery to my central distributor.