“Pencils down”: The Last of Us is finished
Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you have been waiting for has arrived; Naughty Dog’s intense survival horror title The Last of Us is finished. Finito. Acabado. Done.
Less than 24 hours ago, Naughty Dog Co-President and triathlon runner Christophe Balestra uploaded the following image to Instagram, captioned “This is happening right now…”:
To us, “makedisc ship final” sounded pretty final, so we reached out to our Sony contact who explained the game was extremely close to going gold. Then, mere minutes later, Creative Director Neil Druckmann hopped onto Twitter to confirm that development had ceased:
Pencils down.#thelastofus
— Neil Druckmann (@Neil_Druckmann) May 15, 2013
There you have it folks. The Last of Us is complete and ready to hit retailers on June 14th. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
Daniel Flatt
May 16, 2013 @ 10:27 am
I’m so excited to play this.
Taylor Parolini
May 16, 2013 @ 1:04 pm
I’d like to see what the MP looks like.
Isaacmo
May 16, 2013 @ 6:32 pm
No PC version? No bueno.
Charles
May 16, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
Why would there be a PC version? Naughty Dog was acquired by Sony back in 2001 and has been developing games for the Playstation platform for years.