{"id":112348,"date":"2020-05-01T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362204"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:41:00","slug":"sony-says-the-last-of-us-part-2-leak-didnt-leak-from-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/sony-says-the-last-of-us-part-2-leak-didnt-leak-from-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony says The Last of Us Part 2 leak didn&#8217;t leak from employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery of this week&#8217;s leak of<em> The Last of Us Part 2 <\/em>footage gained new clarity this morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-04-27-the-last-of-us-part-2-leaked-online\">In a report from G<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2020-04-27-the-last-of-us-part-2-leaked-online\">amesIndustry.biz<\/a>, Sony stated that it has identified the individuals responsible for leaking the game&#8217;s content, and that they are not employees of Naughty Dog or Sony Interactive Entertainment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This information changes the context of the leaked footage. <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/psa-beware-of-massive-the-last-of-us-ii-spoilers-from-1843105989\">After word of the leak began spreading Monday<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonschreier\/status\/1254832952057434113?s=20\">rumors began to circulate<\/a> that a studio employee or contractor had leaked the footage in retaliation for harsh working conditions at Naughty Dog (or depending on your preferred conspiracy theory, out of anger for the game&#8217;s inclusion of gay characters).<\/p>\n<p>However, if the leak originated from outside the company, those rumored motivations may be moot. Whoever leaked the game&#8217;s content didn&#8217;t exactly leave a mission statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leak of <em>The Last of Us Part 2<\/em> comes after the game&#8217;s release was pushed back to June due to the spread of COVID-19. Sony, like many other developers, was forced to send employees home for their health and safety, creating a development environment that may not have been as secure as work done in a physical studio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery of this week&#8217;s leak of The Last of Us Part 2 footage gained new clarity this morning. In a report from GamesIndustry.biz, Sony stated that it has identified the individuals responsible for leaking the game&#8217;s content, and that they are not employees of Naughty Dog or Sony Interactive Entertainment.&nbsp; This information changes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}