The Last of Us Part II Remastered (PS5) News Articles
Saturday27th Sep 2025
News Oh No! Sony Reveals Stunning PlayStation Themed Magic: The Gathering Trading Cards
Launching on 27th October
Is your wallet feeling light after all the new releases lately? Prepare for it to stay that way, as Sony has revealed the first few trading cards from its PlayStation-themed Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair super drop. Available from 27th October in both non-foil and rainbow foil formats, the cards will span several of...
Friday26th Sep 2025
News The Last of Us 2 Is Now Available on PS Plus Extra on PS5, PS4
Happy Last of Us Day
Today is 26th September, otherwise known as The Last of Us Day — an annual celebration of Naughty Dog's series. To mark the occasion this year, Sony has added The Last of Us: Part II (PS4) and The Last of Us: Part II Remastered (PS5) to PS Plus Extra's game catalogue. They're both available to download now. The Last of Us...
Tuesday5th Aug 2025
News Naughty Dog Hands The Last of Us 2 Remastered New PS5 Patch, Out Now
Get the patch 2.1.1 notes here
Naughty Dog has updated The Last of Us 2 Remastered on PS5 today, fixing a short list of bugs and gameplay issues in patch 2.1.1. It's available to download now. There are no new content additions in this update; it's simply to iron out a couple of glitches affecting audio, subtitles, and missing weapons. You can read...
Friday25th Jul 2025
News Sony's Not Done Finding New Ways to Sell You The Last of Us
Script book announced
The Last of Us is one of Sony's most successful and popular series, so it's no wonder it's had so much focus over the years, but it's impressive just how many ways the company is finding to present it. The latest is an upcoming script book, compiling the full scripts for The Last of Us 1, 2, and Left Behind in one big tome...
Tuesday8th Jul 2025
Surprise Patch 2.1.0
Well this is a surprise. Naughty Dog has announced a brand new update for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, which lets you play through the whole game in chronological order. The suitably named Chronological Experience reshuffles Ellie and Abby's adventure so that events play out across a linear timeline. If you've already...
Sunday11th May 2025
News Just Like the Game, The Last of Us 2's TV Adaptation Is Getting Review Bombed
First time?
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us is getting review bombed. Currently, there’s a chasm between the show’s 95% Tomatometer rated by critics and the 42% Popcornmeter rated by viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. It doesn’t look massively dissimilar to the game’s Metacritic ratings: 93 from...
Tuesday15th Apr 2025
News The Last of Us Is Only Getting More and More Popular
You can't stop this
The Last of Us is growing in popularity. This weekend, HBO debuted the first episode in the second season of its television adaptation, and viewers rose 10% over the original season’s premiere. According to Deadline, the episode managed 5.3 million same-day cross-platform viewers in the US, up from 4.7 million. It shows that...
Friday11th Apr 2025
The Last of Us Complete bundles both games together
PlayStation has officially announced The Last of Us Complete — a newly packaged collection that includes both The Last of Us Part 1 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PS5. Complete will be available later today through the PS Store. The digital version is priced at $99.99 / £94.99. A...
Tuesday8th Apr 2025
News The Last of Us 2 PS5 Patch Released to Promptly Fix Big Problems
We're getting there
Naughty Dog deployed update 2.0 for the PS5 version of The Last of Us 2 Remastered earlier today to coincide with the PC port's release, but if you still have the option to, you might be better off cancelling the download for now. PS5 players in the middle of a playthrough of the game are reporting in their droves that patch 2.0...
Monday7th Apr 2025
News The Last of Us 2 Can't Quite Match the First Game's Launch on PC
Peaks at 30,690 CCUs
While the PC version of The Last of Us 2 has opened to fairly respectable numbers on the platform, attracting a peak concurrent player count of 30,690 across the first weekend, the port is another example of how Sony's porting efforts aren't quite as popular as they once were. The sequel failed to match or beat the first game's...
Monday31st Mar 2025
News Sony Reportedly Gearing Up to Sell You The Last of Us on PS5 One More Time
Will it be the last of The Last of Us?
A brand new physical retail edition of The Last of Us is on the way. That's according to a new report from reliable gaming leaker billbil-kun, via Dealabs. Apparently, a physical release of a "special edition of a game in The Last of Us franchise" is heading to stores in the future. Unfortunately,...
Thursday20th Mar 2025
News The Last of Us 2 Remastered Adding Free Content, Trophies for All Players on PS5
Intergalactic crossover costume included
The Last of Us 2 Remastered is coming to PC on 3rd April, ahead of the premiere of the second season of HBO Max’s critically acclaimed television adaptation. But if you already own the game on the PS5, there’s lots to look forward to. Naughty Dog, in partnership with Iron Galaxy and Nixxes, is adding new...
Sunday9th Mar 2025
News This Trailer for HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 May Be An All-Time Great
Your body is still not ready
Holy heck has HBO nailed this trailer for The Last of Us Season 2! Due out on HBO Max from 13th April, this epic two-minute taster is filled with familiar scenes from the game – and a couple of new ones, too. Series creator Neil Druckmann and showrunner Craig Mazin have already confirmed this new series will dig into...
Thursday6th Mar 2025
News The Last of Us Gets Its Own Limited Edition DualSense PS5 Controller
Pre-orders begin soon
The Last of Us joins the select group of PS5 games to get its very own special DualSense controller. Sony made the announcement via the PS Blog, showcasing the black and white pad with the above trailer and a handful of snaps: As you can see, this DualSense swaps the regular controller's black and white colour placement,...
Tuesday14th Jan 2025
Random You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
Clicker or cake?
Like most reasonable people, we didn't think we'd be writing about British singer Zayn Malik's birthday cake when we woke up this morning. The performer, previously part of One Direction, recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, and posted about his cake on Instagram, because that's the sort of thing that happens now. However, it's...
Friday10th Jan 2025
News You'd Better Believe The Last of Us 2 Demands a PSN Account on PC
Prepare yourself accordingly
The Last of Us 2 is coming to PC in April, and you'd better believe it will require a PSN account on Steam. As we saw with God of War Ragnarok, people are going to react normally when this happens, and we're giving you three months' notice now so we can say "told you so" then. Of course, this also means the excellent...
Tuesday7th Jan 2025
News HBO's The Last of Us: Season 2 Debuts in April
This should be fun
Sony brought Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann up on stage during its CES 2025 presentation to briefly talk about new game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, before transitioning to The Last of Us and its forthcoming second season from HBO. After a short trailer – which shows act
Thursday2nd Jan 2025
Random Kanye West Is Playing The Last of Us 2 on Survivor + Mode, Says It's the Best Game Ever Made
"This is not a sponsored post"
Kanye West may be a lot of things, but at least he has damn good video game taste. The Gold Digger singer posted a picture of his The Last of Us 2 progress on Instagram, confirming he’s playing the Naughty Dog sequel on its most difficult Survivor + setting. He’s probably going to need to get Stronger to reach the...
Monday30th Dec 2024
News Sony Says The Last of Us 2 Can Be Considered a Holiday Season Classic
Move over, Die Hard
While Naughty Dog's incredible follow-up, The Last of Us Part II, mostly stands out in our minds for the intensely violent nature of some of its more fraught scenes, PlayStation (and, by extension, Sony) thinks it could make for a pretty decent holiday season IP, provided you squint hard enough. On X, the official PlayStation...
Friday13th Dec 2024
News The Last of Us 2 Remastered Announced for PC, Makes the Jump in April 2025
Double clicker
The Last of Us: Part II Remastered has been announced for release on PC. The spruced up Naughty Dog sequel will be arriving on Steam and Epic Games Store on 3rd April, 2025. Being developed jointly by ND, Nixxes, and Iron Galaxy Studios, the port will be "newly optimized and enhanced" for PC, with more details on specific...
Friday22nd Nov 2024
News The Last of Us 2 PS5 Pro Is Yet Another Version of a Great Game
"PS5 Pro allows us to make an emotional journey rather than a technical one"
Love the series or leave it alone, The Last of Us Part II Remastered is a stunning game and a perfect way to showcase the power of the PS5 Pro. In a new trailer, developers from Naughty Dog explain why this is the ultimate, definitive, absolutely ideal way to play; we got...
Tuesday22nd Oct 2024
News PS5 Pro Patch for The Last of Us 2 Remastered Already Available Now
You just can't use it yet
Naughty Dog has dropped its PS5 Pro patch for The Last of Us 2 Remastered a whole two weeks before the upgraded Sony system is even available, updating the game to version number 1.2.0. Of course, you're not going to actually feel the effects of the patch if you download it to a base PS5, but there are some tweaks and fixes...
Friday4th Oct 2024
News PS5 Pro Boost Is Pretty Clear Cut in The Last of Us 2 Remastered Comparison Video
Back in the PSSR
Digital Foundry has just published a PS5 Pro comparison video, showing off the difference the console's AI upscaling tech in particular makes to The Last of Us Part II Remastered. The video pretty much speaks for itself, with the unsurprising result being that the Pro's output is simply better than the regular PS5's. The game's Pro...
Thursday26th Sep 2024
News The Last of Us Part 1 and 2 Will Both Look and Perform Better than Ever on PS5 Pro
Thrive and survive
As with most of Sony's first-party teams, Naughty Dog is planning to take full advantage of the upcoming PS5 Pro to offer even better versions of their current-gen titles. Over on the PS Blog, the studio's lead programmer, Vincent Marxen, explains how its two The Last of Us games will benefit from the boost in power. "We here at...
Wednesday28th Aug 2024
News The Last of Us 2's Dina Cited as Inspiration By Alien: Romulus Director
Romulus star will return in Season 2 of HBO's adaptation
As our world continues to get smaller, it probably shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn that Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez took inspiration from a particularly dark and gritty video game released in recent years, namely The Last of Us: Part II. Brief, targeted spoilers for...
Thursday6th Jun 2024
News The Last of Us 2's Story Could Take Three HBO Seasons to Complete
Click click boom
Love it or loathe it, The Last of Us 2’s story is a complicated beast, with many overlapping threads and a lot of ground to cover. It’s perhaps not overly surprising that the director of HBO’s adaptation Craig Mazin is plotting at least two seasons of television to tell the tale – and that could potentially spill over into a...
Wednesday5th Jun 2024
News The Last of Us 2 PC Port Wrapped Up Development More Than Six Months Ago, Report Claims
Sony's apparently sitting on it
A PC port of The Last of Us 2 Remastered seems to very much be a foregone conclusion at this point, but a new report from insider Billbil-Kun suggests it's so inevitable that Sony has actually already done the work and is now sitting on the new version. The former PS Plus
Monday13th May 2024
News PS Plus Adds Two Hour Trial for PS5's The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered
Joining the club
If you’re yet to sample one of PlayStation’s greatest ever games, there’s no excuse for PS Plus Premium members: Sony has added a two hour trial of The Last of Us: Part 2 Remastered to the top-tier of its subscription service. That 120 minutes should give you just enough time to see the title’s controversial twist, which...
Monday11th Mar 2024
Rumour The Last of Us 2 Remastered Is Sony's Next PC Port
But there'll be a longer wait than usual
The Last of Us Part II Remastered is the next PS5 game Sony plans to port to PC, according to the leaker who correctly shared Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut would be coming to the platform prior to the official announcement. The user, who goes by Silknigth on Twitter, suggests the port will be revealed next...
Monday5th Feb 2024
News The Last of Us 2 Began Life as Open World Melee Epic Heavily Inspired by Bloodborne
May you find your worth in the waking world
With the release of Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II, fans have been given a unique insight into the challenges and triumphs developer Naughty Dog encountered while creating its violent sequel, The Last of Us Part II. One of the biggest genuine surprises was a few almost throwaway lines,...
