A well-known insider has revealed the alleged codename for the next Naughty Dog game. While Naughty Dog fans await official details about the studio's next project, rumors about the much-awaited game continue to emerge online.

After releasing The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020, Naughty Dog has been tight-lipped about its in-development projects. The PlayStation first-party studio was working on the Last of Us Online live-service game up until the end of 2023, when it unfortunately had to cancel the project due to the amount of resources it would've taken for post-launch support, leaving Naughty Dog unable to work on single-player games. Naughty Dog has since shifted its developmental focus to a brand-new IP and The Last of Us Part 3, with the former rumored to be its next game.

The past few weeks have been rather eventful as far as rumors surrounding Naughty Dog's next game go, and a new one has entered the scene. Reliable industry insider Ryan from the Bronx (formerly known as Midori) recently posted a tweet claiming that Naughty Dog's next game is internally codenamed "Jordan." As evidence, the insider provided a Slack URL that redirects to an enterprise SSO page for Sony Interactive Entertainment employees. The sie, nd, and jordan keywords in the URL lend further credence to the rumor.

The insider also published a follow-up tweet alleging that Project Jordan is indeed Naughty Dog's current in-development project and will be its next game, and that the codename doesn't belong to one of the studio's previously released, announced, or canceled projects. No further information about Project Jordan was provided by Ryan from the Bronx, making it difficult to ascertain what the codename could allude to about the next Naughty Dog game. The studio has been quite vague with its codenames in the past as well, with 2013's The Last of Us internally dubbed "Project Thing" or "T1" during development.

Whether Jordan refers to a character's name, the game's setting, or something else will likely only be revealed when Naughty Dog formally reveals its next project. Fans have been patiently waiting to learn more about Naughty Dog's next game for a long time, and there's some precedence to suggest that this wait won't persist for much longer. Studio president Neil Druckmann recently confirmed that his current project at Naughty Dog has been in the works since 2020, which could mean that the studio is potentially in the final stages of development and may announce its next game in the near future.

The codename for the next Naughty Dog project is Jordan.

This is the official Slack URL for the project, which will redirect to an enterprise SSO page for Sony Interactive Entertainment employees, confirming the codename and Slack channel as legitimate.https://t.co/eoiwLZPYIX

— Ryan from the Bronx (@ryanfrombronx) November 30, 2024

Posted: 10 hours, 23 minutes ago
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Source: https://gamerant.com/naughty-dog-next-game-codename-jordan-rumor-leak/