Neil Druckmann to get Andrew Yoon Award at New York Game Awards

The co-director/writer of the Last of United States video games is being granted for his 20-year period at Naughty Dog and advancing from personnel intern to co-president.

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Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann will be the New York City Game Awards’ recipient of the Andrew Yoon Legend award. The Last of United States director will be acknowledged for his 20-year period in the video game market at this year’s award event, set to occur on January 23, 2024.

The Andrew Yoon award is provided to those identified “video game changers” in the video game market, and has actually been formerly selected to Hideo Kojima and Phil Spencer. New york city’s Video Game Critics Circle considered Druckmann’s work at the studio as having actually assisted “sealed his status as an icon of video game advancement history.”

[His] story is among self-determinism,” composed NYVGCC president Harold Goldberg. “His fantastic work has actually been admired with several New York Game Awards throughout the years, and we are honored to acknowledge him as this year’s Andrew Yoon Legend Award winner.”

Druckmann signed up with Naughty Dog as an intern in the early 2000s, and dealt withJak 3andJak X: Combat RacingHe added to the style of the very first 2 Uncharted video games before being entrusted with composing and directing 2013’sThe Last of United States.From there, he composed and co-directedUncharted 4andThe Last of United States Part II

Over the last years, he’s turned into one of Naughty Dog’s most popular public figures, and is oft connected with its development to an eminence, triple-A designer for the PlayStation brand name. He was likewise important in HBO’s television adjustment for The Last of United Statesand is the only video game designer to be credited in the program’sopening titles

Following the departure of Evan Wells this previous summer season, Druckmann was selected as Naughty Dog’s imaginative head for all its tasks in production. In current months, he’s suggested the studio is dealing with another single-player installation of the Last of United States series.

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