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The Last of Us

video game
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The Last of Us, third-person action-adventure video game developed by American studio Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment). It was originally released on June 14, 2013, for the PlayStation 3. Two decades after a prologue depicting the beginning of an outbreak caused by a mutated parasitic cordyceps fungus, the main story begins. It follows a smuggler named Joel as he escorts a teenage girl, Ellie, across a devastated United...

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