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The DeanBeat: The Last of Us Part II harassment, Ghost of Tsushima nationalism, and unending lockdown

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Neil Druckmann, the vice president at Naughty Dog and director of The Last of Us Part II, lashed out at trolls who have harassed and threatened voice actress Laura Bailey because her fictional character killed a beloved character in the sequel. Druckmann expressed outrage that haters threatened to kill Bailey’s young child and do other horrible things to her.

In a video interview with voice actor Troy Baker (who plays Joel), Druckmann denounced the tribalism among the haters and trolls who are angry about the game’s killing of the character and then being forced to play as the character who did the killing.

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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.