{"id":11310,"date":"2026-04-16T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2127530"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:01:50","slug":"neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naughtydog.com\/blog\/studio_announcement_dec2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the studio has announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Druckmann joins Evan Wells at the top of the Sony-owned developer, which is famous for the Uncharted and The Last of Us series.<\/p>\n<p>Druckmann, who joined Naughty Dog in 2004, was the creative director and writer of 2013&#8217;s The Last of Us, creative director and lead co-writer of 2016&#8217;s Uncharted 4, and creative director and lead co-writer of 2020&#8217;s The Last of Us 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-07-01-a-spoiler-heavy-interview-with-the-last-of-us-part-2-director-neil-druckmann\">Aoife&#8217;s spoiler-heavy interview with Druckmann about The Last of Us 2 is well worth a read<\/a>). He served as vice president of Naughty Dog for almost three years. Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling are the new vice presidents of Naughty Dog. Mori was director of operations, and Gyrling was co-director of programming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-05-neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-12-05-neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog, the studio has announced. Druckmann joins Evan Wells at the top of the Sony-owned developer, which is famous for the Uncharted and The Last of Us series. Druckmann, who joined Naughty Dog in 2004, was the creative director and writer of 2013&#8217;s The Last of Us, creative director and lead co-writer of 2016&#8217;s Uncharted 4, and creative director and lead co-writer of 2020&#8217;s The Last of Us 2 (Aoife&#8217;s spoiler-heavy interview with Druckmann about The Last of Us 2 is well worth a read). He served as vice president of Naughty Dog for almost three years. Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling are the new vice presidents of Naughty Dog. Mori was director of operations, and Gyrling was&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog, the studio has announced.Druckmann joins Evan Wells at the top of the Sony-owned developer, which is\" \/>\n<meta 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