Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Reportedly Still Years From Release — and Don't Expect to See It at The Game Awards

Despite being revealed astatine past year's The Game Awards, Naughty Dog's upcoming Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is reportedly inactive years distant from launch.

Fans of the Uncharted and The Last of Us workplace should besides not expect different glimpse of the task astatine adjacent month's yearly video games grant ceremony, it was claimed.

Discussion astir erstwhile to expect Intergalactic was precocious sparked by writer Colin Moriarty, who suggested helium thought it imaginable the crippled would motorboat successful 2026. (After assorted sites picked up the remark arsenic confirmation, Moriarty past issued a clarification to accidental he'd conscionable been "speculating," though by then, the taxable had snowballed.)

In March this year, successful a speech with 28 Years Later manager Alex Garland, Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann said the developer inactive had "a ways to go" connected the project. During the aforesaid month, Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier stated that the crippled would not motorboat successful 2026 (and neither would The Witcher 4, either).

This month, Schreier has present repeated this connection — erstwhile again placing Intergalactic's accomplishment arsenic 2027 astatine the earliest, and perchance skipping the PS5 procreation altogether. Meanwhile, Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb has claimed that the crippled won't beryllium making a 2nd quality successful trailer signifier astatine The Game Awards this year.

Is this a surprise? Not really. PlayStation (and Nintendo, and Xbox) person a wont of teasing blockbuster titles a agelong clip earlier they're acceptable for astir radical to play them. And successful an interrogation successful May, Druckmann confirmed Naughty Dog was besides moving connected a 2nd crippled which helium said helium was acting arsenic "more of a producer" and "mentor" on. Perhaps this crippled volition beryllium announced and launched first?

Still, the reminder that Naughty Dog's large caller IP is inactive years distant has travel arsenic a disappointment to some. Should Intergalactic motorboat successful 2027, it volition person been 7 years since the motorboat of The Last of Us Part 2. During the PlayStation 3 and 4 era, Naughty Dog launched a trilogy of Uncharted games and the archetypal The Last of Us wrong the aforesaid timeframe.

Of course, Naughty Dog has inactive launched caller products implicit the past fewer years, including the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, The Last of Us Part 1 and The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered — but these person been re-releases and remasters. At the aforesaid time, it has besides abandoned its long-awaited multiplayer The Last of Us spin-off, which volition present nary longer spot the airy of day.

"I americium each for letting devs navigator but this is the implicit worst procreation for Naughty Dog," 1 instrumentality wrote connected societal media. "TLOU P2 dropped successful 2020 and each we've gotten are barebones remasters, an unnecessary remake, cancelled multiplayer and waiting astir a decennary for a caller game."

Still, Druckmann has spoken confidently that Intergalactic volition beryllium worthy the wait. Featuring a acheronian sci-fi communicative centered astir the topics of religion and religion, the task volition beryllium led by a star-studded formed that includes Tati Gabrielle from the Uncharted movie arsenic protagonist Jordan A. Mun, and Kumail Nanjiani of Marvel's Eternals arsenic a antheral called Colin Graves.

In September this year, successful an interrogation successful which Druckmann described improvement arsenic "firing connected each cyclinders," the manager branded his adjacent task arsenic "the astir ambitious crippled we’ve ever made."

"It's the astir expansive crippled we've ever made," helium past teased, "[and] possibly the astir expensive, by the clip we decorativeness it."

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social