Intergalactic’s Main Team Took Shape After The Last of Us Online Was Cancelled
The account places most of Naughty Dog's staff on the multiplayer project or remasters and remakes before the late-2023 cancellation.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet reportedly did not have a majority of Naughty Dog’s staff assigned to it until after The Last of Us Online was cancelled around late 2023. Most of the studio then moved over to the project, according to remarks from Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier in a video discussion about Naughty Dog’s development history.
That timeline runs against the idea that Intergalactic was the studio’s primary project while a smaller team handled The Last of Us Online. The discussion instead described the multiplayer game as the larger commitment, with many employees also working on remasters and remakes throughout the 2020s.
“Intergalactic did not have the majority of staff until after Last of Us Online was cancelled,” Schreier said. The statement then placed most of the studio on Intergalactic after the multiplayer game’s cancellation, but did not give headcounts or an exact breakdown of the teams.
Naughty Dog’s gap since its last brand-new game in 2020 was also connected to work on The Last of Us Online, along with the remasters and remakes produced during the decade. Those projects included a remake of The Last of Us, a PS5 remaster of The Last of Us Part II, and remasters of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The remarks did not provide a release window for Intergalactic or new information about the game itself.
The remarks appear in a video discussion about Naughty Dog’s development history.
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