Jeff Grubb: remake of the first The Last of Us will be released in late 2022

Rumors of an unannounced remake of the original The Last of Us are getting louder.
Now journalist and insider Jeff Grubb has started talking about it.
He confirmed that Naughty Dog is going to release the game by the end of 2022.Grubb said this on the Kinda Funny Gamescast podcast.
According to the insider, the remake is being developed by people who are familiar with the source material and not employed in other projects.
Because of this, production is going fairly quickly.
\"Naughty Dog is a pretty efficient and well-oiled machine.
They don't need to do too much because it's a game they can update very quickly,\" Grubb stressed.It's about 40:56.His interlocutors suggested that there really isn't much to change.
The main thing is to move to a new engine: \"Obviously, there's a huge chasm between the first and second TLoU in terms of graphics.
\"The journalist is confident that the remake will come out by the end of the year to tie it in with the release of the series from HBO in 2023.
According to Grubb, he has heard from many people about the production of the game, and therefore is confident in the information provided.Recall, rumors about the development of an updated The Last of Us have been around since the spring of 2021.
One of the last about the remake told the animator from PlayStation Studios.
It is reported that the project is being prepared only for PlayStation 5.

Activision has lost about 50 million active Call of Duty players in one year

Call of Duty is having a rough 2022, and the rate at which it is losing players is perplexing, and gloating, for the entire video game community.While some hope that the next Call of Duty game can revive the franchise, there is growing evidence that it is losing players at a rather alarming rate at the moment.
In fact, it seems that what Call of Duty players have been complaining about over the past year is causing quite a few of them to abandon the games in the series entirely.There was a time not too long ago when Call of Duty: Warzone was one of the most popular games on the market.
It was so popular that it helped the Call of Duty franchise break some impressive milestones.
There was a time when the series was grossing up to 150 million players a month.
However, while the number of players used to aspire to the stratosphere, it is now plummeting.According to Activision's first investor report for 2022, the number of Call of Duty game users declined precipitously throughout 2021 and 2022.
In just one year, the number of game users dropped by more than 50 million per month.
While the number of players in the games is still something that many developers would envy, it's the rate of decline that should worry Activision.The drop in player numbers is the steepest since Call of Duty: Warzone was released in 2020.
Activision Blizzard attributes this drop to two factors.
The first is that interest in Call of Duty: Vanguard is simply waning, according to the company.
The company also acknowledged that people are jumping off the Warzone scaffolding faster than in years past.Since Warzone is a free-to-play game, its share of the blame for the Call of Duty franchise's problems is likely exaggerated when compared to Vanguard's impact on struggling player numbers.
Fans have long expressed their dissatisfaction with Warzone and demanded a real sequel to boost interest in the game.It turns out that Warzone 2 is coming in the not too distant future, and apparently Activision is counting on the game's release to help turn the tide on falling sales and player numbers.
If that's not enough, Infinity Ward is also working on a sequel to the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot.
Whether this will really cause the Call of Duty franchise to rise, and soon enough, is an open question.

Remake of the first The Last of Us is due out this year, hints PlayStation Studios animator

For months, insiders have been prophesying that Sony is going to release a remake of the first The Last of Us.
Some have even said as if the release will take place this year.
Now a suspiciously similar information comes from another source, but not from a third party, but from PlayStation Studios.Meet the experienced animator Robert Morrison.
He previously worked on God of War 2018 as part of Sony Santa Monica, and now has taken a job at PlayStation Studios Visual Arts, an auxiliary studio that helps other teams in the Sony family.
Morrison occasionally tweets on his Twitter feed, and there are a few curious coincidences associated with that.Coincidence one.
It was claimed that Visual Arts was originally in charge of the remake of The Last of Us, but then Naughty Dog took over the project and left Visual Arts as an assistant.
That is, if this is true, Morrison may well be on the remake team.Coincidence two.
Morrison is not working on God of War: Ragnarök - he stated this directly.
But, they say he's working on something \"just as cool\".Coincidence three.
Morrison says, \"PlayStation has something cool coming out this year.\" He later added that \"sometime this year\" he could show what he was working on.Coincidence four.
Morrison called The Last of Us his all-time favorite game.VGC, citing its own sources, also believes that a remake of The Last of Us is nearing completion.
They want it to coincide with the launch of the HBO adaptation.
It is unlikely they will start simultaneously (the series is not expected until 2023), but still close enough to support each other in the infofield.It is assumed that the remake of The Last of Us is being developed exclusively for PlayStation 5.Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Robert and sometimes I animate characters getting ouchies.
Everything I do is a team effort.
And at some point this year I'm going to be able to post new stuffs.
? pic.twitter.com/H8iANmZDsz- Robert Morrison (@RobertAnim8er) April 12, 2022