Is "The Last of Us" about to make 2023 its year?

It's going to be on HBO, the series just sold 37 million copies, and concept art for its multiplayer game has been released.

The Last of Us might be a big hit in 2023.

Just before the premiere of the HBO show based on the original game, game developer Naughty Dog released concept art for the upcoming multiplayer game. As you might expect, the art looks great. And crazy. But mostly wonderful.

Here's what we know about The Last of Us's future:

Concept art for multiplayer games shows a cruise ship.
The first game came out in 2013 and was made by Naughty Dog. On Tuesday, they posted a blog about the franchise's 10th anniversary and included a picture of the concept art for the new multiplayer game (more on that in a bit).

The picture shows a cruise ship that has run aground in a city and seems to have been there for a while, since there are busses and buildings that have been damaged all around it. Two people are shown coming toward the ship.

Neil Druckmann, co-president of Naughty Dog, said that the game "is shaping up to be a fresh, new experience from our studio, but one that is rooted in Naughty Dog's passion for delivering incredible stories, characters, and gameplay."

It is the second piece of concept art for the multiplayer game that Naughty Dog has shown the public.

The first piece of concept art was shown in June of last year. It showed two players with guns standing on a roof and looking out over a destroyed city with a suspension bridge in the distance.

The original game had a multiplayer mode called "Factions," which put players on either the "Hunters" or "Fireflies" side. (Many people are calling the new game Factions, after the 2013 multiplayer game of the same name, but Naughty Dog hasn't called it that yet.) The goal was to keep some people alive.

In 2023, the 10th anniversary of the series will be marked.
It's hard to believe, but The Last of Us came out for the PlayStation 3 in June 2013. From the beginning, both critics and fans loved it a lot. It was praised for its story, gameplay, and especially its scary visuals of a destroyed Earth full of mutated people who look like zombies.

The series is about a journey taken by Joel, a man who lost his daughter to a deadly fungus that spread across the US decades ago, and Ellie, a teenage girl who is immune to the infection. As Joel tries to get Ellie to the Fireflies, a group that is working on a cure, they go through a lot of scary things.

More than 37 million copies of The Last of Us games have been sold.
In the blog post, Druckmann said that as of December 2022, more than 37 million copies of The Last of Us books have been sold.

The Last of Us Remastered for PlayStation 4 in 2014 and the Left Behind expansion pack from the same year are also part of the series. Part II came out in 2020.

In 2022, The Last of Us Part I came out for PlayStation 5. It will be available in March for Windows PC.

"Knowing that so many of you have seen Joel, Ellie, and the rest of our cast and loved them is what drives the whole studio forward," Druckmann wrote.

The HBO show starts on January 15.
All of this is happening at the same time as the first episode of the HBO show based on the game.

The Last of Us will start on January 15 with Pedro Pascal as Joel and Bella Ramsey as Ellie, as well as Gabriel Luna and Anna Torv.
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