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aughty Dog, LLC formerly JAM Software, Inc. is an American firstparty 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. Ultimately, this led to the release of Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation in 1996. Naughty Dog developed three Crash Bandicoot games over the next several years.
Crash would be a playable character in Activision’s upcoming game Skylanders: Imaginators, released on October 16, 2016. It was announced at Gamescom 2016 that Dr. Neo Cortex would also be playable in Skylanders: Imaginators, and that Vicarious Visions had developed a Crash-themed level for the game, “Thumpin’ Wumpa Islands”. A remaster of the first, second, and third titles developed by Vicarious Visions, titled Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, was released on the PlayStation 4 on June 30, 2017 in partnership with Activision. During the interview with Metro Game Central, Vicarious Visions producer, Kara Massie refused to rule out the possibility of a remaster of Crash Team Racing for the PlayStation 4. Massie has also acknowledged that she was repeatedly asked about Crash Team Racing by fans. Massie has not confirmed if the game will be in the works after the release of N. Sane Trilogy. tVicarious Visions has also expressed interest in making a new Crash Bandicoot game. On March 8, 2018, it was announced that N. Sane Trilogy will be coming to Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows for release on June 29, 2018.
U At E3 2016, after years of rumours and speculation, Crash Bandicoot made his official return when it was announced that
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