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created on: 26/12/2015
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Naughty Dog, Inc. (known as Jam Software before renaming in 1989) is an American video game developer based in Santa Monica, California.
Founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin in 1984 as an independent developer, the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001.
Gavin and Rubin produced a sequence of progressively more successful games, including Rings of Power for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Way of the Warrior for the 3DO. The latter — a very low-budget but still plausible offering — prompted Universal Interactive Studios to sign the duo to a three-title deal and fund the expansion of the company.
Mark Cerny, who had been deeply involved with Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega, convinced Naughty Dog to focus its new resources on creating a character-based platform game that would fully exploit the 3D capabilities of the new systems. Ultimately, this led to the release of Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation on August 31, 1996. Naughty Dog developed three Crash Bandicoot sequels over the next several years.
In January 2001, it was announced Sony would acquire Naughty Dog.
After developing Crash Team Racing, the company began working on Jak and Daxter for the PlayStation 2.
In 2004, Naughty Dog's studio president and co-founder, Jason Rubin, left the company to work on a new project named Iron and the Maiden.
In addition to their inhouse game team, Naughty Dog is also home to the ICE Team (Initiative for a Common Engine Team), one of SCE Worldwide Studios's central technology groups.
The company's first PlayStation 3 title, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, was released in 2007, its sequel, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, in 2009, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception in November 2011.
Naughty Dog was known for having a history of not only developing one game at a time, but only one franchise per console; a trend that has garnered criticism from fans.
This lasted until Naughty Dog announced a new intellectual property called The Last of Us at the Spike Video Game Awards on December 10, 2011 for the PlayStation 3, which was in development by a second team at the studio and was released in June 2013 to overwhelming universal acclaim.
Beginning in early 2014, the studio has experienced multiple departures, the highest level of departure being lead Uncharted writer Amy Hennig.
Their current project is the next installment in the Uncharted series, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, which the company teased at the PlayStation 4 launch event in November 2013 and then revealed on E3 2014 in June 2014.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2016)
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Submitted by : bob (9197)
on : 26/12/2015