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Microsoft nearly killed former Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us director's new game, but he managed to save it after the first trailer, fellow Naughty Dog vet says: "It was game over"

Coven of the Chicken Foot was almost a casualty of cutbacks

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Uncharted 4 dataminer uncovers lost version from Amy Hennig with new cutscenes, more Elena, and fewer guns

A parallel universe

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"This game sucks": Former Uncharted 4 dev says a mystery Naughty Dog project was torn apart by corporate, leading to threats of pulled funding and a huge leadership shake-up

"Corporate looked at it and they said, 'You guys are in trouble,'" Gabriel Betancourt says

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The Last of Us sparked "internal fight" at Naughty Dog, says veteran designer: "We had to tell the team 'it's not just another zombie game'"

"'It's going to have heart, emotion, and character. That's what this thing's all about'"

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The Last of Us director used Ellie and Joel's bond as a reference for his new game, but the biggest inspiration was Ico, the first that made him cry

Bruce Straley says "before that, games were just games to me"

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Uncharted and Last of Us director says Zelda: Wind Waker was the main inspiration for his new game's art style, because the devs wanted the graphics to "last the test of time"

You can definitely see the Wind Waker vibes in Coven of the Chicken Foot

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The Last of Us co-director Bruce Straley wants to deliver a "unique type of storytelling" with Coven of the Chicken Foot, a lush love letter to ICO and Shadow of the Colossus

Big in 2026 | The debut adventure from Wildflower Interactive has big ambitions in a challenging genre: "We've had to come up with innovative ways to work in the complicated companion space"

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The Last of Us star Troy Baker says "we don't need to demonize" gen AI because it's just going to drive people to "authentic" experiences "as opposed to the gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror"

"I think it's a good thing"

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Amid Divinity's controversy, The Last of Us co-creator doubles down that "we don't need AI" and promises to avoid it while making his newest game

Bruce Straley says, "they're making football fields and draining water supplies to try to replicate something that a human can already do"

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'The Last of Us' Co-Director Rejects Generative AI in Games, Says Creativity Can't Be Automated

Bruce Straley explains why he rejects generative AI in game development, arguing it can only imitate, not think or create like human designers.

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The Last of Us director won't use Gen AI even if it produces something "compelling" as "I don’t think prompting is art"

"It’s a snake eating its own tail. It can’t grow and think for itself, it just consumes"

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Former The Last of Us director is happy to be making his own weird game and "not something that you need to do a remaster of in the next 4 years because the tech has already outgrown it"

I wonder what he could possibly mean by that

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The Last of Us director left Naughty Dog after the studio settled into a "paradigm" of how to make a specific type of game: "I just don't have it in me. I would make a lot more money if I did!"

"My brain isn't good with that type of repetition"

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'The Last Of Us' Co-Creator's Breathtaking New Game Is One Of The Game Awards' Biggest Surprises

The debut game from 'The Last of Us' co-creator Bruce Straley's Wildflower Interactive is an idiosyncratic adventure with two unlikely heroes.

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'Last of Us' co-creator calls out a shameful games industry trend

A glaring omission in the credits of HBO's 'The Last of Us' highlights a larger game industry problem

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The Last of Us director calls for unionization in the games industry

The Last of Us co-director Bruce Straley advocated for unionization after he was snubbed from the credits in HBO’s adaptation

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How 'The Last of Us' changed gaming, strained relationships and spawned an empire

Sony's landmark 2013 game "The Last of Us" didn't make it easy on players. But the difficulty curve was more emotional than technical, for the game delivered the zombie genre at its most heady, grief-stricken and intimate.

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Why Tom Holland in 'Uncharted' signals a generational shift in gaming's Hollywood incursion

LOS ANGELES — If "Uncharted," mired in development delays for the better part of a decade, becomes a global film franchise for Sony Pictures, the love Tom Holland has for the PlayStation video game console will become the stuff of legend.

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