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Jason Rubin To Leave Naughty Dog

Posted by simoniker on from the crash-bashed dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its story revealing Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin is leaving the company after Jak III is completed. Rubin, who has a long history in the games industry, helping create both the Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter franchises, mentions he's "made a conscious decision to leave Naughty Dog and explore other options in the gaming sector", arguably not a surprise since his recent DICE Conference speech on the disrespect paid to game developers. The GameSpot article notes: "While Rubin's speech took game publishers to task for not valuing talent, he maintains he was not singling out Sony", and a separate interview fleshes out Rubin's feedback from the speech, noting: "So far nobody has said anything negative, but those who do not want to hear what was said won't be the types to comment directly."

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  1. Rings of Power by Vertice123 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually.. one of their first titles was the old school genesis RPG game Rings of Power.

    It was a massive epic of a game, with such an immense challenge and great combat system that it kept me intrigued for 2 months.

    It was under promoted by EA at the time because they were just realizing how much money could be made from fifa x (where x == next year)

    --
    Morals.. isn't that some fancy kind of mushroom
  2. Re:WotW 2? by May+Kasahara · · Score: 2, Informative
    That "damned bandicoot" has been gone from Naughty Dog for some time now... the last Crash platformer (Wrath of Cortex) was done by another developer (and it really sucked, by the way). In the meantime, Naughty Dog has put out the Jak games-- some of the best platformers in this console generation.

    As a fan of Naughty Dog's work, I was kind of saddened to hear about Rubin's leaving, but I have a feeling he knows what he's doing, and that gamers definately won't be hearing the last of him.

  3. Re:Out of curiosity by BW_Nuprin · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ugh, okay, now I feel like an ass.

    I've been having an argument with a couple friends about this for the last hour, and one of them just pointed out that Jason Rubin tried to hire one of my top five developers (Mitzuguchi). I retract my previous statements.

    I guess I've just been burned one too many times by guys with a good head of hair and a high ranking position. My apologies.