Bruce Straley
Uncharted 4 & Last Of Us Game Director Leaves Naughty Dog
Bruce Straley is one of the lead developers at Naughty Dog, and has been the game director for some of their biggest games, including Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End & The Last Of Us. He will now be leaving Naughty Dog, and had this to say: It’s impossible to summarize 18 of the most influential years of my career in a blog post, but here we are — today, with the heaviest of hearts, I am announcing my departure from Naughty Dog. This has been the hardest decision of my career. Naughty Dog is home. The Kennel is family. I’ve learned and grown so much from working with this incredible team. But after heading up three extremely demanding projects, and taking some extended time away from the office, I found my energy focusing in other directions, and I slowly realized this was the signal ...
Uncharted 4 get Last of Us’ directors on board
When news about Amy Hennig (the creator and writer of the Uncharted series) leaving Sony-owned developer Naughty Dog got around, many wondered about the future of the franchise, and who would assume the role of taking charge of the newly-announced Uncharted game for PlayStation 4? Those questions are being answered now Game Informer asked Naughty Dog Co-President Evan Wells whether Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley – the game industry veterans who rose to prominence with The Last of Us – would help the project in transition, he stated that, “It’s not so much of a transition period, actually. We’ve asked them to lead the project.” These men have a lot of experience when it comes to games and especially the Uncharted series as both Druckmann and Straley worked on Uncha...
Naughty Dog’s tweets coincide with some concept art, should we expect another game?
Something seems to be brewing over at Naughty Dog studios. Some stuff has been taking place behind the scenes according to The Last of Us Game Director Bruce Straley took to Twitter to express his appreciation for a prototype a designer was sketching: “I got goosebumps playing & talking thru a prototype a designer was sketching in yesterday! That’s how I know… #GonnaBeAwesome” Marek Okon, a freelance concept artist that worked on several pieces of artwork for the game, recently posted on his Facebook account the work in progress artwork you can see above. Let me tease you something… Its coming… ;] The unfinished picture above definitely looks like a older version of Ellie holding a guitar. And if you’ve played The Last of Us you’ll know about Joel and Ellie having a certai...