{"id":89760,"date":"2026-09-18T14:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89760"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:37:50","slug":"ex-naughty-dog-dev-apologizes-to-god-of-war-studio-for-what-he-said-about-laufey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89760","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Naughty Dog Dev Apologizes To God Of War Studio For What He Said About Laufey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruce Straley, best known for his work at Naughty Dog on the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, has apologized to God of War: Laufey studio Santa Monica Studio, after he said he was &#8220;not excited&#8221; about what the game was offering, at least in some respects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Straley told <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.edge-online.com\/p\/the-game-industry-is-broken-can-we-fix-it-tim-sweeney-edge-crash\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/knowledge.edge-online.com\/p\/the-game-industry-is-broken-can-we-fix-it-tim-sweeney-edge-crash\">Edge<\/a> that he thinks &#8220;every pixel&#8221; in Laufey looks &#8220;mindblowing and that he is &#8220;blown away&#8221; by the lengths Santa Monica Studio went to. However, Straley said he is &#8220;not excited&#8221; by &#8220;what you&#8217;re doing in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beyond Laufey, Straley said he feels there is &#8220;no opportunity to inject fresh, innovative ideas&#8221; in AAA games generally.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1889337\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/coven_4cd426.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1889337\" \/>A scene from Straley&#8217;s new game, Coven of the Chickenfoot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bruce_straley\/status\/2100959840080404712?s=46\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bruce_straley\/status\/2100959840080404712?s=46\">statement shared on social media<\/a>, Straley said, &#8220;I want to apologize to the Laufey team for dragging you all into this uninvited and unnecessary negative attention.&#8221; He said he was trying to make a point about his concerns about the AAA games industry generally, and acknowledged that he made a mistake by naming Laufey specifically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I have thoughts about what\u2019s wrong &amp; the possible serious harm done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Straley, best known for his work at Naughty Dog on the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, has apologized to God of War: Laufey studio Santa Monica Studio, after he said he was &#8220;not excited&#8221; about what the game was offering, at least in some respects. Straley told Edge that he thinks &#8220;every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":89762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89763,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89760\/revisions\/89763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}