{"id":121628,"date":"2020-12-04T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/374799"},"modified":"2020-12-04T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T23:32:00","slug":"neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/04\/neil-druckmann-is-now-co-president-of-naughty-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Druckmann is now co-president of Naughty Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naughty Dog did some top-level role shuffling today at the Santa Monica-based studio. Neil Druckmann, studio vice president and creative director of <em>The Last of Us Part II<\/em>, is now co-president at the company.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naughtydog.com\/blog\/studio_announcement_dec2020\">in a blog post<\/a> that also announced the addition of Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling as vice presidents of Naughty Dog. Mori was previously director of operations at the company, Gyrling was co-director of programming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a challenging year for Naughty Dog, which had to delay the debut of <em>The Last of Us Part II<\/em> after the outbreak of COVID-19 forced the studio to transition to a work-from-home setup.<\/p>\n<p>The game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365546\/The_Last_of_Us_Part_II_sold_over_4_million_copies_in_three_days.php\">would go on to sell 4 million copies in 3 days<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naughty Dog did some top-level role shuffling today at the Santa Monica-based studio. Neil Druckmann, studio vice president and creative director of The Last of Us Part II, is now co-president at the company. The announcement was made public in a blog post that also announced the addition of Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}