Naughty Dog is shutting down its multiplayer game The Last of Us

Naughty Dog announced Thursday that the multiplayer game it developed has been canceled our end to remain

The studio stated that it was in pre-production Latest from us online Even while working The Last of You Part Two. “We were excited about the direction we were going.” News according to a blog post.

However, “for approval and support Latest from us online “We will need to dedicate all of our studio resources to supporting post-launch content in the coming years, which will have a significant impact on the development of future single-player games,” says Naughty Dog. “So we had two options: become a pure live-service game studio or continue to focus on the single-player narrative games that have defined the Naughty Dog legacy.”

Naughty Dog is clearly taking the latter route – and also says it has “multiple” major new single-player titles.

Latest from us online It appears that development has already encountered some problems, as Naughty Dog announced the game’s delay just after May Bloomberg Sony is reportedly rethinking the direction of the game. (In the same announcement of the delay, Naughty Dog also revealed that it’s working on a “completely new single-player experience”.) my city October report Naughty Dog in the post talked about some contractor layoffs Latest from us online It was “basically on ice”.

cancellation Latest from us online This adds to the broader opposition to Sony’s live service ambitions. Instead of releasing twelve live service games by March 2026, it now plans to release just six.

Sonny and the Naughty Dog The Last of Us Teil 2 Remastered It will release on January 19, 2024 The second season of the hit HBO show is slated to premiere in 2025