{"id":29264,"date":"2011-12-09T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29264"},"modified":"2011-12-09T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:51:52","slug":"the-last-of-us-site-updates-fuels-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29264-the-last-of-us-site-updates-fuels-hype","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us site updates, fuels hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Of Us is touted as being the big super-secret PS3 exclusive reveal happening at the Spike VGA&#8217;s &#8211; taking place tomorrow on 10 December &#8211; where it will be getting a full trailer to finally reveal what it&#8217;s all about.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, here on the internet, people aren&#8217;t waiting that long, and cyber-sleuths have already been hard at work trying to figure it all out.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the teaser site got updated with this pretty, albeit pointless, wallpaper image:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29265\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29265\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29265\" title=\"The Last of Us Image 02\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-02-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s a game about leaves and sunshine, obviously<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The guys over at NeoGAF, using some sneaky URL exploits, managed to extract this picture as well:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29266\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29266\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29266 \" title=\"The Last of Us Image 01\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Last-of-Us-Image-01-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s a game about grungy newspapers, obviously<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to a report over at VG247, the video snippets from the teaser videos on the teaser site, are sourced from a doccie about brain-eating fungus which takes control of ants (making them zombie ants)&#8230;and I&#8217;m sure you can see where this is going.<\/p>\n<p>If that wasn&#8217;t sleuthy enough for you, it would seem that some Uncharted 3 players have also found a sneaky reference to this concept in the early stages of the game, where a newspaper headline on the bar reads: &#8220;Scientists are still struggling to understand deadly fungus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Intriguing. Sony hinting at a PS3 exclusive within another PS3 exclusive? If the glove fits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll have to wait until the Spike VGAs tomorrow night before we hit anything concrete &#8211; but it&#8217;s awesome to see the internet at work!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the reference in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfF9y_Z6Zvg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"VG247\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2011\/12\/09\/rumour-the-last-of-us-teased-in-uncharted-3\/\">VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spreading like a viral fungus across the internet. 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