Rumor Warfare: New Insider Claims TLOU 3 In The Works, Refuting Schreier’s Report

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There’s a really interesting new rumor about the next The Last of Us game, that takes aim at a report from no less than Jason Schreier.

Last May, Schreier reported in Bloomberg that the long awaited The Last of Us Factions multiplayer game was significantly scaled down and put on the backburner. Schreier told a story of Bungie being asked to assess the project, and telling Sony that the game can’t hold on attention for very long. It had sounded like the game was almost cancelled, but instead scaled back as Sony still sees potential in it.

We have to point out here that one of Naughty Dog’s employees, Lead Editor Samuel Prince, had this to say about Schreier’s story a month after its publication:

“I don’t love all the name-calling in this thread as I try my best to keep it wholesome™. But maybe next time he (Schreier) writes an article about a studio without a single named source, think about how much he loves clicks and take his stories with a grain of salt.”

At the time, you could have taken that tweet to indicate that Schreier and Prince, or perhaps other Naughty Dog employees, don’t like each other, and that would be logical as Schreier shared insider information. Whether they like each other or not would have nothing to do with whether Schreier’s report is accurate.

Now, another insider, thetipsterVG, has chimed in on Schreier’s report. When asked to share any Naughty Dog related rumors, thetipsterVG had this to say:

“i’ll say this the jason schreier article about the TLOU multiplayer is complete bullshit and TLOU Part III is in heavy development.”

Of course, one can choose to dismiss that thetipsterVG is making this up and Schreier is more credible. But I do need to point out here, that Schreier actually gets