TECH REPORT
If we learned nothing else from Naughty Dog’s PC version of The Last of Us Part 1, we now know that in the year 2023 it’s still eminently possible to mess up a videogame port. We can run the global economy on a decentralised blockchain and climb mountains in photorealistic VR, but good luck getting TLOU to build its shader cache before Steam’s refund window expires.
Prior to that release, you could have been forgiven for thinking the days of borked PC ports were basically behind us. It was absolutely de rigueur throughout the ’90s and ’00s for a critically adored console game to turn up in mangled and mutilated form, and as recently as’ PC
