{"id":370293,"date":"2026-06-16T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=370293"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:11:26","slug":"intergalactic-skips-summer-game-fest-ex-naughty-dog-artist-says-its-no-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/intergalactic-skips-summer-game-fest-ex-naughty-dog-artist-says-its-no-red-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Intergalactic skips Summer Game Fest: ex-Naughty Dog artist says it\u2019s no red flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Naughty Dog artist Del Walker weighed in after Summer Game Fest, saying people shouldn\u2019t treat <a href=\"https:\/\/intergalactic-the-heretic-prophet.en.softonic.com\/android\" rel=\"noopener\">Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet<\/a> being absent from the show as some kind of warning sign. His point was pretty straightforward: putting together a showcase trailer can pull developers away from the actual game for <strong>months<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That can mean artists, animators, engineers, cinematic teams, motion-capture staff, and production support all getting diverted just to build something for a presentation. Seen that way, the choice not to show Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet may have been the better call for development, not evidence that something\u2019s gone wrong or, as some posts online framed it, \u201cthe dog\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair enough.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet was announced at <strong>The Game Awards<\/strong> in December 2024 with a cinematic trailer, and it didn\u2019t take long to become one of Sony\u2019s most anticipated exclusives. It\u2019s also Naughty Dog\u2019s first new IP since <a href=\"https:\/\/the-last-of-us.en.softonic.com\/android\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last of Us<\/a> in 2013: a PlayStation 5 action-adventure set thousands of years in the future, starring bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun, played by Tati Gabrielle.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re waiting on Naughty Dog\u2019s next big single-player game, this quiet stretch reads more like a deliberate decision than a reason to <strong>panic<\/strong>. Especially after The Last of Us Online was canceled and resources were moved over to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, the reaction hasn\u2019t been unanimous, and plenty of fans are still saying, \u201clet them <strong>cook<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is currently in development for <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong>. There\u2019s still no release date, though unconfirmed industry chatter says it could show up sometime around mid-2027.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Naughty Dog artist Del Walker weighed in after Summer Game Fest, saying people shouldn\u2019t treat Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet being absent from the show as some kind of warning sign. His point was pretty straightforward: putting together a showcase trailer can pull developers away from the actual game for months. That can mean artists, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/intergalactic-skips-summer-game-fest-ex-naughty-dog-artist-says-its-no-red-flag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intergalactic skips Summer Game Fest: ex-Naughty Dog artist says it\u2019s no red flag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9333,"featured_media":370292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-370293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370294,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370293\/revisions\/370294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370293"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=370293"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=370293"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=370293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}