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Naughty Dog co-president retires to pursue personal projects

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Christophe Balestra, the co-president of Naughty Dog, announced today he will retire from the developer of games like The Last of Us and Uncharted after 15 years at the company.

Balestra said in a blog post that he was retiring on April 3 from the Los Angeles game studio, which is owned by Sony.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.