Naughty Dog tester lists “unannounced remake project” on LinkedIn

A Naughty Dog QA Tester has listed an “unannounced remake project” on his LinkedIn profile along with an “unannounced multiplayer project”. The multiplayer project will probably be Factions 2, or whatever it ends up being called, the multiplayer component that was cut from The Last of Us Part II.

As for the remake, this ties in with many stories that have been floating around for the past few years. A ground up remake of The Last of Us has been rumoured for quite some time.

Last year a report on Bloomberg detailed how one of Sony’s support-oriented studios, the Visual Arts Service Group, decided to go and remake The Last of Us for PlayStation 5, but without any support from Sony themselves. It was all very strange but allegedly ended with Naughty Dog taking back control of the project.

At the end of last year the Visual Arts Service Group started hiring people, specifically asking for developers “with an appetite for high quality, 3rd person, action/adventure games.” In January 2022 industry tipster Tom Henderson has tweeted “Heard from multiple people now that the TLOU remake is nearly finished and could release during the latter half of 2022.”

He has also posted a video from Sony’s CES 2022 briefing yesterday that revealed more details of PSVR 2. Joel and Ellie can clearly be seen in the background. Other PlayStation icons including Ratchet & Clank, Aloy, and Jin are also pictured but Joel is certainly the odd one out, mostly because he’s very dead.

Heard from multiple people now that the TLOU remake is nearly finished and could release during the latter half of 2022 pic.twitter.com/ZxmNU7zS9k

— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) January 5, 2022

• What’s next for The Last of Us?

HBO’s The Last of Us, the television adaption of the franchise, will not be airing this year. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO’s programming president Casey Bloys was asked point blank if The Last of Us would be screened this year. “The Last of Us is shooting right now in Canada. We haven’t announced an air date yet. But it’s not 2022. They’re still shooting in Calgary,” he stated.

Sony would probably want to link the TV show to a game release, and a remake could link the game more closely to the television series.

Source: LinkedIn via ResetEra

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• Source: https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2022/04/28/the-last-of-us-remake/