Those Clickers are back in The Last of Us Part II.
Those Clickers are back in The Last of Us Part II.
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The Last of Us Part II hands-on preview — The fear of losing someone

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

I was fearful that I wouldn’t be able to play The Last of Us Part II, the sequel to my favorite game, for a long time. I figured it would be part of Sony’s PlayStation 5 lineup, and that anticipated game console hasn’t even got a launch date yet.

So I was thrilled to play a preview this week in Los Angeles, as Sony and developer Naughty Dog showed off the game to the press for the first time in 16 months and then said it would debut on the PlayStation 4 on February 21.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.