The Last of Us Part 3 Tease Seemingly Surfaces, We’re So Back

Another The Last of Us Day has come and gone and this year’s instalment was, well, underwhelming.

That was to be expected.

HBO’s TV adaptation is only just casting for season three, so there’s nothing in the way of a trailer or teaser to drop there.

As for the video game franchise, Naughty Dog is hardly going to detract from the hype that’s steadily building around their upcoming IP Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

Instead, this year, the studio unveiled a selection of merch collaborations, also dropping a snippet of the upcoming The Last of Us: Part I and Part II Scripts book set to launch in December.

What has surfaced since though is something I’d argue is way more exciting.

My friends, I think Neil Druckmann is teasing a new game.

Listen, I’m known for being the top The Last of Us clown around these parts; I live and breathe this franchise, but that also means I notice things.

Druckmann recently took to Instagram during The Last of Us Day with a picture of that aforementioned script book, captioning it, “Love how the script book turned out. Lots of fond memories while flipping through the pages. Happy TLoU day! Can’t wait to give y’all more TLoU updates when the time is right.”

It’s that last part that’s encouraged me to don the clown paint once more.

“Can’t wait to give y’all more updates when the time is right” is an outright guarantee that more The Last of Us updates are on the way. It’s just a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’.

Personally, I can’t see these pertaining to the HBO series just as it does look like Druckmann is somewhat distancing himself from the adaptation after stepping down as co-showrunner.

What the TV series does seem to have done though is reignite his original love for gaming.

My thesis, and it is just that, is that the TV departure may be directly tied to a yearning to enter development on a third game.

Let me add a few more interesting teases.

In a recent Variety interview, Druckmann dropped three major clues.

“Other things are coming and we can announce more things soon,” is one example.

He later referred to “all the various Last of Us things I’m working on”, eventually also adding, “And there’s more stuff happening in The Last of Us world that has not been announced.”

This man is dropping The Last of Us hints at every opportunity after years trying to convince us that Part II could be the end.

You can’t tell me The Last of Us Part III isn’t coming, or at the very least some kind of spin-off - perhaps using assets leftover from the cancelled multiplayer release?

I won’t even tell you to take this with a pinch of salt because these teases are coming from the horse’s mouth.

We’re probably going to have to let Druckmann and Naughty Dog cook a little bit longer, but all signs point to big things coming and I’m so ready for this new era.