



The game was released on Jin all countries except Japan where it was released on June 20, 2013. The Last of Us was scheduled to be released on May 7, 2013, but was pushed back to six weeks. On May 15, 2013, The Last of Us had " gone gold", meaning all development of the game had been completed and mass manufacturing had begun. Set in the post-apocalyptic United States, the game tells the story of survivors Joel and Ellie as they work together to survive their westward journey across what remains of the country to find a possible cure for the modern fungal plague that has nearly decimated the entire human race. The game was developed by a portion of the employees at Naughty Dog, while the other half of the company went to develop Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception established for the purpose of creating new intellectual property as well as continuing the Uncharted series simultaneously. The Last of Us is a third-person action-adventure survival horror video game created exclusively for PlayStation 3, and was later remastered for the PlayStation 4.
