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.
Mark Cerny, who was an assistant programmer for 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.
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 critical 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.
On December 7, 2013, during the first edition of Spike's VGX award show, Naughty Dog won the Studio of the Year
award for their work on The Last of Us.
http://www.naughtydog.com/


Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) is a Japanese multinational video game
company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly
owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony. The
company was established on November 16, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan, prior to the launch of the
original PlayStation video game system.


Sony Computer Entertainment handles the research & development, production, and sales of both hardware and
software for the PlayStation line of handheld and home console video game systems. It is also a developer and
publisher of video game titles and is composed of several subsidiaries covering the company's biggest markets:
North America, Europe and Asia. SCE's largest workforce is in the United States and has 8000 employees in more
than 50 countries. The company has sold more than 400 million PlayStation consoles worldwide.