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Neil Druckmann — The Last of Us: Part II is our longest and most ambitious game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Neil Druckmann said that Naughty Dog’s upcoming The Last of Us: Part II will be the studio’s longest and most ambitious game by the time it ships on the PlayStation 4 on February 21.

Druckmann was the co-director on The Last of Us, and now he is a vice president at Naughty Dog and still very much involved in the creative leadership of The Last of Us: Part II. For the past 16 months, Druckmann and Naughty Dog have been quiet about the game. Sony didn’t show up at 2019’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June, and so the team was heads-down working on it. Expectations are stratospheric, as the original from 2013 won countless awards. It became my favorite game of all time.

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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.