Gaming veteran and co-Presidnet of Naughty Dog Evan Wells gave some news and indeed is an end of an era for the Playstation Studios as the executive has announced that he is stepping away from the company that he began working right at the New Millenium.

Evan Wells has announced he'll be retiring from Naughty Dog and the gaming industry at the end of 2023.

first video game was at Sega, where he worked on ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, before moving to Crystal Dynamics in 1995 to work on Gex and Gex: Enter the Gecko. He was employed at Naughty Dog in 1998, working on several Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter titles before becoming co-president of the company alongside Stephen White in 2005.

"I’ve been making games professionally for over 30 years, and Naughty Dog has been my home for over half my life," he writes. "I’ve seen this studio grow from hire number 14 (me!) during the Crash 3 days in 1998 to over 400 Dogs today. Every major life milestone I can track with a Naughty Dog project – I met my wife during Crash Team Racing, we took our honeymoon after shipping Jak 2, had our first child E3 week when we announced Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and our second child was born right in the thick of development on The Last of Us."

Naughty Dog separately announced that Neil Druckmann will remain at his current post and as the HEad of Creative while Alison Mori is being promoted to studio manager and head of operations, Arne Meyer becomes head of culture and communications, and Christian Gyrling is the new head of technology.