{"id":659361,"date":"2026-03-31T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:20:12","slug":"the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us and Uncharted 4 co-director returning to game development with new studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nNaughty Dog veteran Bruce Straley, who served as co-director on Uncharted 2, Uncharted 4, and the The Last of Us before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-bruce-straley-departs-naughty-dog-after-18-years\">leaving the games industry in 2017<\/a>, has announced he&#8217;s returning to game development and is establishing a new studio, Wildflower Interactive, to do just that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStraley broke the news of his return in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/playwildflower\/status\/1549787638135001088?s=20\">video shared on Twitter<\/a>, explaining, &#8220;In 2017, I left the industry not sure if I wanted to make games anymore, but the longer I was away, I kept thinking about this medium, and everything yet to be done and everything I wanted to do still &#8211; and this idea kept following me.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;So I grabbed some friends,&#8221; Straley continued, &#8220;and we started prototyping and the idea started getting good, it started becoming exciting again, and I realised I need to make this game. But if I&#8217;m going to make this game, it means I have to build a team, and if I build a team, I have to build a company, and if we&#8217;re going to do that then we have to do it the right way.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-last-of-us-and-uncharted-4-co-director-returning-to-game-development-with-new-studio\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naughty Dog veteran Bruce Straley, who served as co-director on Uncharted 2, Uncharted 4, and the The Last of Us before leaving the games industry in 2017, has announced he&#8217;s returning to game development and is establishing a new studio, Wildflower Interactive, to do just that. 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