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Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet sounds rather a lot additional alongside than we anticipated
Info on Naughty Canine’s subsequent sport, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, has been fairly sparse since its announcement again in 2024. Studio boss and sport co-director Neil Druckmann simply shared a serious replace, and it appears the sport is near completion.
On a Revenge Of livestream hosted by Patton Oswalt on the Comedian Creators Block Occasion 2026, Druckmann revealed that Intergalactic is within the “final stage of manufacturing.” The sport is totally playable, and the workforce at Naughty Canine is targeted on refining and sprucing it. Improvement hasn’t been simple, nonetheless, and Naughty Canine reportedly made developers work overtime to satisfy deadlines.
Intergalactic is the studio’s first unique IP since 2013’s The Last of Us. The sport will likely be a sci-fi bounty-hunting journey that focuses on virtually Soulslike melee fight moderately than the studio’s traditional gunplay. Intergalactic is ready 2,000 years sooner or later, in an alternate timeline that cut up off from our actuality within the Nineteen Eighties. Druckmann teased that gamers will crash on a desolate planet that serves as the middle of a brand new faith.
Naughty Canine has a number of extra initiatives within the works
Throughout this 12 months’s Final of Us Day (Sept. 26), Druckmann teased that Naughty Canine has not less than two new projects in the early stages of development that will “broaden the canon of The Final of Us past Half 1 and Half 2.” That may imply the studio is able to transfer on from Ellie’s story, even when there may be nonetheless room for a Half 3 ultimately.
Naughty Canine can even be returning to Uncharted within the close to future, in keeping with a number of studies. The sport will characteristic sequence protagonist Nathan Drake, however it hasn’t been confirmed whether or not he’ll return because the main man or mentor a successor. Shaun Escayg will direct the brand new Uncharted after helming Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, the standalone enlargement that starred Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross.
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