No, The Last of Us art director Nate Wells is not back at Naughty Dog

Early this morning, a few blogs started reporting rumors that developer Naughty Dog’s former art director Nate Wells had returned to the studio. That is not the case.

GamesBeat has confirmed with Sony that Wells is not back at Naughty Dog. This is contrary to several news stories, which cited the artist’s profile on the job-networking site LinkedIn. Wells’s profile currently states that he is between jobs, but some sites claimed LinkedIn recently showed that the developer was once again working at the studio behind the critically acclaimed Uncharted and The Last of Us adventure-game series.