{"id":3648,"date":"2022-06-13T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:48:12","slug":"the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Multiplayer Last Of Us Game Sounds Like Sony&#8217;s Big Live Service Headliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner_62a6c18ba5ea8-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner_62a6c18ba5ea8-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-multiplayer-last-of-us-game-sounds-like-sonys-big-live-service-headliner_62a6c18ba5ea8-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sony has been pretty clear about its intention to make a big splash in the live-service market. During an earnings call this past February, chief financial officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/sony-playstation-live-service-games\/\">Hiroki Totoki explained that the Bungie acquisition was strategic<\/a>: Sony intends to leverage the studio\u2019s expertise in live service to develop a slate of games &#8211; ten in total &#8211; by 2026. At the time, Totoki referenced a \u201cmajor new IP\u201d that was already in development, presumably Bungie\u2019s next game which is rumored to launch in 2025, but didn\u2019t offer any specifics about these planned live service games. At the time, the only upcoming multiplayer games we were aware of from Sony were Twisted Metal and The Last of us Part 2\u2019s standalone multiplayer mode, colloquially known as Factions 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/the-last-of-us-multiplayer-faction-live-service-playstation-sony\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has been pretty clear about its intention to make a big splash in the live-service market. During an earnings call this past February, chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki explained that the Bungie acquisition was strategic: Sony intends to leverage the studio\u2019s expertise in live service to develop a slate of games &#8211; ten in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}