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The Last of Us is Selling Like There’s No Tomorrow

For a game that many admit makes them cry within the first fifteen minutes, it is surely putting up its dukes at retail.

With 3.4 million boxed and digital copies sold in the three weeks since its release, Sony confirms The Last of Us is the fastest selling PlayStation 3 title of 2013.

I’m incapable of being surprised by this news.  I’ve quickly called it one of my favorite games of all time and a modern masterwork of interactive storytelling.  Naughty Dog, I even picked out a plump box quote from my review for your inevitable Game of the Year Edition: “It’s fucking awesome.  It’s really just so very fucking awesome.”

‘Course, the end of the world is far from over as the game’s newly formed legion of instant fans still have story-based DLC roving their way in the near future.  Plus, with numbers like that, you can bet Sony isn’t keen on letting The Last of Us stand alone for long…

Fresh off the heels of the supposed FCC leak of a new slimmer and sleaker PS3, these images have surfaced on Tecnoblog.  Seemingly taken from the Brazilian equivalent to the FCC, this just might be our first, muddy glimpse at the Super Slim.

The documents also appear to reveal the three different hard drive sizes Sony intends on dishing out to the public: the 250GB model, a 500GB successor, and a 16GB economy model that seems to serve the same function as the bottom-tier 4GB Xbox 360’s Microsoft banks off of.  The future is looking slim (er, in a good way, I guess).

Just what the hell is The Last of Us?  We apparently don’t deserve to know until Spike’s VGA show next weekend.  In lieu of the upcoming announcement, we’re given no more than 45 seconds of real world stock footage depicting flashes of violence, dystopian narration, and the most chilling use of music in a video game commercial outside of a Just Dance release.

Last of Usis definitely making with...