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The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered seemingly confirmed by Naughty Dog employee

Not sure what’s there to remaster, though

Marco Wutz

The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered seemingly confirmed by Naughty Dog employee
The Last Of Us Part 2 Remastered seemingly confirmed by Naughty Dog employee /

The Last Of Us Part 2 isn’t exactly an old game, having been released in 2020 for the PS4 and possessing a high performance mode for playing it on PS5, but it seems like Naughty Dog isn’t done milking its popular franchise with remasters: The heavily rumored The Last Of Us Part 2: Remastered seems to be real.

Naughty Dog’s Lead Outsource Artist mentioned “overseeing the production of all outsourced environment art assets, weapons and interactive props for two iconic titles The Last of Us: Part One and The Last of Us 2: Remastered” on their LinkedIn profile (via ResetEra).

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Looks like a The Last Of Us Part 2: Remastered sneaked past Naughty Dog's guards / Naughty Dog

From a business perspective, this move would certainly make sense: Naughty Dog seems to need additional time to get its The Last of Us multiplayer game out of the door, so pushing out remastered versions of its existing titles in the meantime is a sound strategy, especially due to the ongoing momentum and hype the series has from the successful HBO show. Strike the iron while it's hot, right?

Coordinating the release of The Last Of Us Part 2: Remastered on PS5 – and perhaps porting it to PC – with the launch of the show’s second season sounds like a sure money-maker.

Fan reactions range from being hyped about this reveal to being astonished at the greed behind this move. Again, the game is only three years old and looks stunning. It’s hard to fathom what exactly a remastered version could provide in terms of upgrades that would be worth what – let’s be cynical together for a moment – is likely going to be a full-price $70 USD release.

Naughty Dog has not officially confirmed The Last Of Us Part 2: Remastered, but it looks like the cat’s firmly out of the bag now.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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