'The Last Of Us' Multiplayer Game Has Been Cancelled

Video Games

Dec 15

After releasing a highly successful streaming series, The Last of Us has been increasing in popularity. While the franchise began as a single-player video game in a zombie apocalypse, turning it into a multiplayer game proved to be more of a challenge than the developers anticipated. An announcement was posted to developer Naughty Dog’s website on Thursday, December 14th, 2023, “There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game.”

The game had been in production ever since The Last Of Us Part II was being worked on. “As the multiplayer team iterated on their concept for The Last of Us Online during this time, their vision crystalized, the gameplay got more refined and satisfying, and we were enthusiastic about the direction in which we were headed.” The announcement continued. “We are immensely proud of everyone at the studio that touched this project. The learnings and investments in technology from this game will carry into how we develop our projects and will be invaluable in the direction we are headed as a studio. We have more than one ambitious, brand-new single-player game that we're working on here at Naughty Dog, and we cannot wait to share more about what comes next when we’re ready.”

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