Dan Trachtenberg interviews Neil Druckmann (right) about the inspirations behind The Last of Us and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.
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The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Neil Druckmann, an influential game developer behind titles such as The Last of Us, has been appointed a co-president of Naughty Dog alongside longtime co-president Evan Wells.

The appointment is a big recognition of Druckmann’s contributions to Naughty Dog, a Sony-owned game studio in Los Angeles with hundreds of employees. Under Druckmann’s direction, Naughty Dogs has made groundbreaking games such as The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part II, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.

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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.