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Naughty Dog announced Thursday that it\u2019s canceled the multiplayer game it was building in The Last of Us<\/em> universe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The studio says it has been in pre-production on The Last of Us Online<\/em> even while working on The Last of Us Part II<\/em>. \u201cWe were enthusiastic about the direction in which we were headed,\u201d according to a blog post about the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n However, \u201cto release and support The Last of Us Online<\/em> we\u2019d have to put all our studio resources behind supporting post launch content for years to come, severely impacting development on future single-player games,\u201d Naughty Dog says. \u201cSo, we had two paths in front of us: become a solely live service games studio or continue to focus on single-player narrative games that have defined Naughty Dog\u2019s heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Clearly, Naughty Dog is picking the latter path \u2014 it also says it has \u201cmore than one\u201d big new single-player title in the works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Last of Us Online<\/em> development already seemed to be in some trouble, as Naughty Dog announced a delay to the game in May shortly after Bloomberg<\/em> reported that Sony was re-evaluating the game\u2019s direction. (In that same delay announcement, Naughty Dog also revealed it was working on a \u201cbrand-new single player experience.\u201d) In Kotaku\u2019s<\/em> October report about Naughty Dog laying off some contractors, the publication said that The Last of Us\u2019 Online<\/em> was \u201cbasically on ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The cancellation of The Last of Us Online<\/em> adds to Sony\u2019s broader pushback of its live service ambitions. Instead of releasing 12 live service games by March 2026, it now only plans to release six.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sony and Naughty Dog\u2019s The Last of Us Part II Remastered <\/em>will be released on January 19th, 2024. The second season of the hit HBO show is set to debut in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Naughty Dog announced Thursday that it\u2019s canceled the multiplayer game it was building in The Last of Us universe. The studio says it has been in pre-production on The Last of Us Online even while working on The Last of Us Part II. \u201cWe were enthusiastic about the direction in which we were headed,\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}