Highlights
- Christian Gyrling, the previous head of know-how at Naughty Dog, is leaving the studio after a 17-year profession.
- Gyrling made important contributions to video games resembling The Final of Us: Half 2 and held a number of positions throughout his time on the firm.
- Travis McIntosh, who has been with Naughty Dog for 19 years, shall be taking up Gyrling’s place as head of know-how.
Certainly one of Naughty Dog‘s longtime builders and programmers, Christian Gyrling, is leaving the Final of Us and Uncharted growth studio after a 17-year-long profession on the firm. The previous worker was the studio’s former head of know-how, who made many contributions to the video games developed, together with holding quite a lot of completely different positions throughout his time at Naughty Dog. Gyrling first joined the corporate as a programmer for the primary Uncharted recreation on the PS3 again in 2007.
Ever since he joined the studio, Gyrling has been credited in each main launch from Naughty Dog, ascending to the high-level place of The Final of Us: Half 2. Gyrling would then turn out to be Naughty Dog’s vice chairman from 2020-2023, earlier than reverting to his former function of head of know-how in the summertime. Earlier than he joined Naughty Dog, Gyrling labored at Excessive Moon Studios between 2004-2006 and at WMS Gaming Inc. between 2001-2003. Whereas the previous know-how head has contributed to among the most acclaimed video games for the studio, he has left the studio after almost 20 years.
This announcement was made on Naughty Dog’s official Twitter web page, honoring Gyrling for his contributions throughout his tenure on the firm. “Our head of know-how Christian Gyrling has determined to go away Naughty Dog after a tremendous 17-year profession at our studio,” says the Twitter publish. Following Gyrling’s departure, Travis McIntosh, who had been with Naughty Dog for a equally lengthy interval of 19 years, shall be taking his place.
That is the second high-profile departure for the Sony first-party studio, as Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells introduced his retirement earlier this previous summer time, leaving the corporate after a 25-year profession. Outdoors these departures, Naughty Dog had laid off some contract workers, which led to early rumors of the studio presumably shelving its multiplayer-focused The Final of Us recreation, although it was confirmed a number of days later to be nonetheless in growth.
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Our head of know-how Christian Gyrling has determined to go away Naughty Dog after a tremendous 17-year profession at our studio.
Gryling’s substitute, Travis McIntosh, has an identical profile to him, as McIntosh had joined the studio forward of the primary Uncharted‘s launch. By way of video games that McIntosh had beforehand labored on at Naughty Dog, he was the lead programmer for varied Uncharted video games till Misplaced Legacy in addition to each Final of Us video games. There are rumors about how Naughty Dog is engaged on a remaster of The Final of Us: Half 2, which is perhaps the primary recreation with McIntosh on this place. These tasks are nonetheless solely rumors and hypothesis presently, so they need to be taken with a grain of salt till extra official data from Naughty Dog is unveiled.
