Naughty Dog

Naughty Dog is a studio of development of Video game based with Santa Monica, with the the United States. Founded in 1986 by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin under the name of Jam Software, the company was repurchased by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001. Naughty Dog is known to have developed the series Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter .

History

Jam Software was founded by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, whereas they were 16 years old. Their the first two plays, Ski Crazed (1987) and Dream Zone (1988) were published by Baudeville. Electronic Arts produces their third play, Keef the Thief (1989), a Action-RPG, and their last play on microcomputer. During the development of the play, the company is renamed Naughty Dog. Electronic Arts also produces their following play, Rings off Power (1991), one of the first three plays of the editor to be born on Megadrive. Quickly fallen in stock shortage, this Roleplay was not never republished and will acquiera a statute quasi-worship. After one latency period during which Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin finish their university course, Naughty Dog is reformed in Boston to work on a financed project and, of their consent, “good market”. Way off the Warrior , play of combat sanguinolent rather poor of interest, is published in 1994 by Universal Interactive on 3DO, at one period when the machine still made illusion.

After a deal of three plays passed with Universal, Naughty Dog settles in California and takes a new dimension while recruiting of the qualified personnel. During two years, the studio develops a first play in 3D. Mark Cerny, then president d' Universal Interactive Studios, contributes a share to the development of the project and he will remain thereafter a collaborator close relation of the studio. Crash landing Bandicoot , play of platform refreshing, is born in 1996 on PlayStation. He is an important critical and commercial success. He will know two direct continuations and a derived episode. The series where it known a success without precedent in Japan for a Western play of origin. The sales of Bandicoot Crash landing under the era Naughty Dog would rise with more than 25 million specimens. It is the most popular frankness on PlayStation after Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy . Sony Computer Entertainment finally published all the series, Universal remaining owner of the rights of the frankness.

In January 2001, Sony Computer Entertainment acquires Naughty Dog. The studio is harnessed with a new series of play of platform/action, Jak and Daxter , which is an important success. In 2004, Jason Rubin leaves Naughty Dog.

Creations

To note

Since the time Crash landing Bandicoot , Naughty Dog tied a friendly relation with the studio Insomniac Games, which develops at the same time Spyro the Dragon (also published at Sony EC). Also the two studios took the practice to be made winks by interposed plays.

One of the figures of hoverboard in Ratchet & Clank of Insomniac Games names " Jak" good old man; , in reference to the hero of the series Jak and Daxter . In Ratchet & Clank 2 , Jak is locatable on the screen of Clank in the apartment of Megapolis. On the Damosel planet, Jak is visible on posters and an impromptu dance of Ratchet and Clank reproduces the movements of Jak and Daxter when they collect a pile of energy. In the play Ratchet: Gladiator , one of the characters no-claims bonus is Jak débloquable in mode two player and only the 2nd player has access to this perso.

In Jak II: Out the law , there exists in the town of Abriville, a large poster of Ratchet & Clank . In Jak X , Ratchet acts as pilot no-claims bonus and the end of an antenna of the vehicle no-claims bonus regains the shape of the head of Clank.

Naughty Dog recently announced that a adapatation of the Jak series & daxter on ps3 was not inenvisageable. Will see one can be soon arriving to you new a opus on the console of Sony? Only the future will say it to us.

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