Cory Barlog (born September 2, 1975) is an American video game designer, director, and writer who is the current creative director of video game development at Santa Monica Studio.

[3] In his early career, Barlog worked as a lead animator at Paradox Development on Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home and X-Men: Next Dimension.

He also served as game director of God of War III (2010) for the first eight months of its development.

[4] Although not part of Sony at the time, he helped in writing God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010).

In an interview, he announced that he was working on a tie-in video game for the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road.