The Last of Us Multiplayer (PS5) News Articles
Thursday2nd Apr 2026
News The Last of Us Multiplayer Was 80% Complete Before Cancellation, Spent 7 Years in Development
It was that or Intergalactic
The standalone multiplayer game for The Last of Us was around 80% complete, having been in development for roughly seven years before its cancellation, the title's game director has now revealed. Speaking on a Lance E. Lee podcast, Vinit Agarwal recounted his time at Naughty Dog and the events surrounding The Last of Us...
Wednesday9th Jul 2025
News Director of The Last of Us' Axed PS5 Multiplayer to Start New Studio in Japan
Pastures new
The wounds from The Last of Us Online’s cancellation still cut deep, but we suppose we’re all going to have to move on eventually. Vinit Agarwal, who was the director of the highly anticipated standalone multiplayer spin-off, has announced that he’s moving to Japan to start a new studio. His time at Naughty Dog also included game...
Tuesday13th Aug 2024
News Cancellation of The Last of Us Online Was 'Not a Bloodless Endeavour'
Someone had to pay the butcher's bill
The cancellation of Naughty Dog's anticipated multiplayer offering, The Last of Us Online (colloquially known as Factions, originally meant to ship as part of The Last of Us: Part II), is a situation we still haven't quite recovered from in an industry seemingly beset by bad news. For better or worse, more...
Tuesday19th Dec 2023
News Stare Wistfully at The Last of Us Online PS5 Multiplayer Menu Screen
And dream of what could have been
We're still reeling from the cancellation of The Last of Us Online, Naughty Dog's ambitious, mysterious multiplayer effort, with news breaking ahead of the weekend that ended months of speculation. Now, an image a notorious leakster just had lying around might serve as either a salve, or to exacerbate the situation...
Monday18th Dec 2023
News The Last of Us' Cancelled PS5 Multiplayer Was 'More Fun' Than Any Other Online Game
The highlight of one dev's career
Naughty Dog has cancelled its ambitious PS5-bound online multiplayer adaptation of The Last of Us, implying it had to choose between dedicating itself to the live service title or continuing to make single player games. Ultimately, it opted for the latter, and claims it now has multiple new projects in the works...
Friday15th Dec 2023
News The Last of Us Multiplayer Project Is Officially Cancelled
Naughty Dog will focus on single player games
Naughty Dog has today shared the news its The Last of Us Multiplayer project has been officially cancelled. A post on the developer's official website states: "We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game." It continues: "We know this news will be tough for many,...
Thursday25th May 2023
Another no-show raises more questions
If there was one game we’d have bet our life savings on appearing during last night’s flubbed PS Showcase, it was The Last of Us Factions. Naughty Dog hasn’t actually given us an official name for the project yet, so we’re using the moniker fans tend to recycle the most – but just to be clear, we’re...
Tuesday14th Mar 2023
News Expect to Hear 'Much More' About The Last of Us Multiplayer Game Later This Year
"What the team has put together is so cool"
It looks like we might finally learn more about The Last of Us: Part II's missing multiplayer component later this year, which, from what we've been told previously, has expanded in scope quite significantly. Appearing virtually on a Kinda Funny Spoilercast, Naughty Dog vice president Neil Druckmann...
Saturday7th Jan 2023
News Naughty Dog Is Against Announcing Its Secret Project Too Soon
The Last of Us Multiplayer comes first
Naughty Dog currently has two projects in development that we know of. There's the The Last of Us Multiplayer, which we'll learn more about this year, and there's something else beyond that — presumably a new property, or a new The Last of Us. And while the wait for any kind of concrete information on the...
Friday10th Jun 2022
News What Do We Know About The Last of Us Multiplayer for PS5?
"A cinematic experience between players"
The Last of Us 2’s mulitplayer mode has evolved into what will almost certainly be one of Sony’s live service games. The title – which clearly expands far beyond the SOCOM-style deathmatch encounters of the original – is described as an “extremely ambitious undertaking” on the PS Blog. In fact,...
Thursday9th Jun 2022
News Standalone The Last of Us Multiplayer One of Naughty Dog's Biggest Ever Efforts
Dev introduces "extremely ambitious undertaking"
Why is The Last of Us’ Multiplayer taking so long? Well, judging by everything Naughty Dog is saying, this is one of its biggest ever projects. A piece of concept art was released as part of Summer Game Fest, with more news to follow next year. Speaking with Geoff Keighley, co-president Neil...
