To celebrate the success of Uncharted 2, Naughty Dog has just announced that they will be upgrading their offices after 6 years at their current location.

Their new office will be “less than 500 feet away” from their current location and will give the developers more space to allow for expansion. The move will be finalized on March 1st and will definitely point towards an even brighter future for Naughty Dog as they staff their studio further and work towards another great title.

Read more about the move over at their blog, here.

Microsoft recently announced plans to restructure the fabled Rare due to the current economical climate. But why restructure such a great development studio?

Well, Microsoft says:

“As the entire industry struggles to address the increasing scale and cost of development, we too have felt a need to restructure our current approach so we can speed development and better manage the scale required to create high quality games,” commented Mark Betteridge, studio manager.

It’s also noted that this could possible result in a few Rare employees to pack their bags even though the studio apparently has 4 unannounced titles in the works. This is really too bad, I remember falling in love with Rare ever since the Donkey Kong titles for SNES and the Banjo-Kazooie series for N64.
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