There’s less than a month to go before The Last of Us hits the PlayStation 3. I’ve got this feeling that the game will be the final hoorah for Sony’s console before the PlayStation 4 begins to hog the limelight; a swan-song of sorts, I guess.

Despite the fact that the game is still a few weeks away, Sony Computer Entertainment of America is not wasting any time when it comes to planning the future of the IP. Domain names for lastofus2.com and lastofus3.com have just been registered. As Shacknews points out, every title that Naughty Dog has developed thus far has been turned into a long-running series, so it wouldn’t be surprising if The Last of Us maintained this tradition.

This could, of course, all just be cautionary planning. As we’ve seen in the past, private individuals regularly squat on domain names with the sole intention of selling it on to big companies. It’s likely that SCEA is moving to prevent this happening for the off-chance that the game gets two sequels. Hell, at least they didn’t go nuts like EA recently did when they registered domains for Battlefield13.com all the way to battlefield20.com.

Source: Shacknews

You may want to be careful when you spend tonight trawling through 4chan, Reddit and other corners of the Internet where content of shady origins is likely to be found. Some sneaky people have managed to hack the code of the recently released demo for The Last of Us and have found all sorts of files that provide information on the full game’s plot.

The demo, which came with copies of God of War: Ascension, contained files that will obviously only be utilised by the full game. It’s not unusual for demo code to include other bits of dormant code from the main game. In this case, those with the ability to dredge through the demo’s code, found a list of names for all of the game’s cut-scenes. The names are obviously blatant enough to divulge the content of each cut-scene and as such the Internet now knows what’s in store for all of the game’s main characters. The ending of the game has also been uncovered.

With around 6 weeks to go before the game is released, you’re going to need to exercise some serious caution when it comes to reading online content on The Last of Us. You’ve been warned! Have fun now!

Source: Eurogamer

Uncharted developer Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is looking super fine! Except for maybe the bad guys with their gross-as-hell coral growths bursting out of their heads; those guys are revolting. We recently shared some brand new gameplay footage during which it was said (with much excitement) that the game is out in May this year. Too bad Naughty Dog has just announced that the game will be missing its 07 May 2013 release date.

Speaking on the official PlayStation blog, creative director Neil Druckmann has announced that the game will take an additional five weeks of polishing before it releases. “Instead of cutting corners or compromising our vision,” Druckmann explained, “we came to the tough decision that the game deserved a few extra weeks to ensure every detail of The Last of Us was up to Naughty Dog’s internal high standards.”

The Last of Us will be out worldwide on 14 June 2013.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Have you noticed the sudden rush of The Last if Us previews online today? That’s because embargo has lifted on the first ever press, hands-on event recently hosted by Sony and Naughty Dog. Geoff Keighley an co over at GTTV have an interview with game directors Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley in which they dissect the half-hour of gameplay that was on offer at the event.

The clip doesn’t show the entire gameplay sequence, but it does introduce new mechanics and two out of the three types of infected that populate the game. One of those infected types is the “Clicker” – a completely blind but powerful infected that uses echo-location to track its prey. The different types of infected correlate to the varying stages of the infection; so for example, Clickers are at an advanced state of infection.

There’s also a glimpse of the crafting system. Hitting the R1 button brings up craftable items like batteries, rags, sugar and more. A large part of combat has been designed around the notion of improvisation. As such you’ll need to scavenge parts and find handy objects in order to protect Joel and Ellie by crafting new weapons. Ammo will also be scarce and guns aren’t always the best option. If all has gone well, you’ll find the GTTV video embedded snuggly after the jump.

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Over in America land, something called the “Super Bowl” recently took place. Apparently it’s a big deal or something. Anyway, during the Super Bowl, companies pay ridiculous amounts of money to flight adverts for various products. One such company is Sony – although they’ve been haemorrhaging money for years so this comes as somewhat of a surprise. They just showed off a new, live-action trailer for upcoming God of War: Ascension.

The trailer has no gameplay to speak of, but it does provide context for Kratos’s next bloody outing – or should that be first brutal outing seeing as this is a prequel of sorts? Whatever the case may be, it’s a pretty good trailer. Up to this point I’ve had zero interest in this game, but the fact that there are hints that we might be seeing a more human side of this otherwise brutal lead character, has me somewhat intrigued.

Hit the jump and mind out for all the Ellie Goulding – she’s kind of difficult to get out of your head once she’s in there with that oddly appealing, squeaky voice of hers.

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