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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

GamesRadar · Jun 16

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

A parallel universe

GamesRadar · May 11

"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

GamesRadar · Apr 21

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"

GamesRadar · Jan 6

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"

GamesRadar · Dec 19, 2025

'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.

Player One · Dec 18, 2025

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"

GamesRadar · Dec 17, 2025

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

GamesRadar · Dec 12, 2025

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"

GamesRadar · Dec 12, 2025

'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.

Inverse · Dec 12, 2025