{"id":55773,"date":"2013-06-28T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55773"},"modified":"2013-06-28T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:14:51","slug":"the-last-of-us-phone-sex-number-an-honest-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/55773-the-last-of-us-phone-sex-number-an-honest-mistake","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us phone sex number \u201can honest mistake\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Last of Us is a brilliant game, but it\u2019s been pretty unlucky in the PR department lately, what with Ellen Page\u2019s comments<\/a> and an artist accusing Naughty Dog of stealing<\/a>. Now the dev has reportedly handed out a sex-hotline number through the game.<\/p>\n

The issue was raised when gamers noticed a harmless \u201cPest Control\u201d poster in the game, with a number attached to it. When the number is called (in real life) it links to a sex-hotline service.<\/p>\n

“That was an artist’s mistake,” said The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann. “What happened was, they put some phone numbers in the game and then they thought they could just change the area code to 555, then it’s invalid because it’s what they do in movies. But I guess that doesn’t work when you have a 1-800 in front of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

“We’re now working to take it out,” he added. “It was just an honest mistake.”<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t really know what to make of this \u2013 whether it\u2019s a coincidence or a silly joke, it\u2019s still pretty funny.<\/p>\n

Source: Kotaku<\/a><\/h6>\n

More The Last of Us news:<\/h3>\n

Ellen Page and Naughty Dog make nice<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Last of Us \u201ccontender for best game this gen\u201d<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

The Last of Us looks fantastic: video preview blowout<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another piece of artwork in The Last of Us heads in the wrong direction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":55774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[31,771,71,1441],"class_list":["post-55773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-naughty-dog","tag-sony","tag-the-last-of-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55775,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions\/55775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}