Summer season Game Fest’s Biggest Announcement Was a Remake

The Last of United States Part 1 is coming. Once again. Naughty Dog copresident Neil Druckmann revealed the news today throughout Summer Game Fest, the kickoff occasion of this year’s pseudo-E3. The video game is making the dive from its PlayStation 3 origins to a “total remake” for PS5.

Unfortunately, Druckmann is a little late to the celebration. Sony dripped the news by means of PlayStation Direct ahead of today’s expose.

Leaks occur all the time in video games. And for Naughty Dog, leakage lightning has actually struck two times. Back in 2020, ahead of its extremely expected follow up, The Last of United States Part II, leakers spread out crucial details about the video game, consisting of significant plot points.

What’s specifically noteworthy in this case is not the leakage, however that the remake was still the greatest news of the occasion. Summertime Game Fest’s otherwise tame kickoff shotgunned through a range of titles, consisting of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Gotham Knights, Aliens: Dark Descent, and Stormgate, a brand-new video game from previous StarCraft 2 devs. Smaller sized titles, like Neon White, got release dates (June 16), and Coffee Stain Studio displayed a brand-new Goat Simulator Compared to overblown occasions of previous years, it was an unusually soft display.

If it appears a little bit quickly to remake The Last of United States— it’s not even a years old– think about the timing. An HBO adjustment of the video game is presently underway, starring Game of Thrones stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey. And, according to Sony, its follow up, The Last of United States Part II, has actually offered more than 10 million copies. Naughty Dog likewise has more strategies to broaden the franchise with a stand-alone multiplayer video game– a job needing the studio to grow “substantially” to make it.

Anyway, if you in some way missed out on the initial video game on PS3, or then once again as a PS4 remaster, you’ll get your possibility to play an up-to-date variation on PS5 on September 2. It’s likewise in advancement for PC, due to the fact that you definitely have not seen the last of it.