Naughty Dog

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Naughty Dog, Inc.

logo
legal form Incorporated
founding 1986 (as JAM Software)
1989 (name changed to Naughty Dog)
Seat Santa Monica , California , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Evan Wells (President) & Neil Druckmann (Vice President)
Branch Software development
Website www.naughtydog.com

Naughty Dog (dt. "Naughty Dog" ) is an American video game developer that of Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin was founded. The company first achieved greater fame with the Crash Bandicoot series of games for the PlayStation from the game console manufacturer Sony . Naughty Dog has been part of Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment ) since 2001 . The company developed the Uncharted series for Sony .

The game series Crash Bandicoot , Jak and Daxter , Uncharted and the title The Last Of Us represent the greatest successes of Naughty Dog, these achieved sales of approx. 64 million copies to date (as of December 2015).

Beginnings

Naughty Dog was founded in 1986 by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin at the age of 16 as JAM Software. The first title was a ski game called Ski Crazed for the Apple II . This was followed in 1988 by a graphics adventure called Dream Zone , which was the first game to support the VGA standard.

In 1989 Keef the Thief appeared , which was distributed by Electronic Arts . During this time, JAM Software changed its name to Naughty Dog before Keef the Thief was released . Rings of Power was released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1992 .

The two then split when Andy Gavin began studying at MIT and Jason Rubin moved to Newport Beach and the company went bankrupt. But in 1993 Naughty Dog got together again in Boston and developed Way of the Warrior for the 3DO . Universal Interactive Studios took the title and marketed it in 1994. Naughty Dog then signed a contract with Universal for three projects and moved to Los Angeles . One of the projects was Crash Bandicoot , which was the breakthrough for the company.

breakthrough

In 1996 Naughty Dog developed Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation . The character developed into an unofficial mascot for the console. Two sequels and the fun racer Crash Team Racing followed. In total, the Crash series sold 21.5 million times. After the crash parts, Naughty Dog developed the Jak and Daxter computer game series , which was released for the PlayStation 2 . In January 2001, Sony announced that it would buy Naughty Dog.

This was followed by the Uncharted series for PlayStation 3 . Overall, the PS3-exclusive Uncharted series, including the new edition for the PS4, sold over 20 million times. On a worldwide sales list of over 8500 games, Uncharted: Drake's Fate ranks 203 at 4.89 million, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at 115 at 6.67 million, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception at 111 at 6.78 million Sales.

On December 10, 2011, Naughty Dog announced in a press release the development of The Last of Us , a mixture of survival horror and action adventure. Shortly afterwards a trailer appeared with the first impressions of the game. The game was released on June 14, 2013. This was followed on November 14, 2013 at the Spike Video Game Awards, a teaser of a new part of the Uncharted series.

The Last of Us sold over 6 million copies by mid-2014 and has been widely referred to as one of the best video games of the past few years. Combined with the sales of the new edition for the PS4, the title was sold over 9.5 million times. Almost 5 years after the game was announced, the successor The Last of Us Part II was announced through a trailer at PlayStation Experience 2016 .

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Individual evidence

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