Naughty Dog, Inc. 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.Longtime American game designer and producer Mark Cerny 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. In 1996 Crash Bandicoot was released for Playstation. In 2007 Uncharted Drake's Fortune came out fot Playstation 3.Naughty Dog was known for having a history of developing one game at a
time, and also one franchise per console; a controversial trend that was
criticized by fans. This lasted until Naughty Dog announced a new intellectual property for the PlayStation 3 in 2011 called The Last of Us,
which was in development by a secondary team at the studio and was
released in 2013 to universal acclaim, being called one of the greatest gamesof all time.
