Jason Rubin is one of the most popular and richest American director who was born on January 6, 1970 in United States. Over the course of their 18 years at Naughty Dog they developed 14 original games, including Math Jam (1985), Ski Crazed (1986), Dream Zone (1987), Keef the Thief (1989), Rings of Power (1991), Way of the Warrior (1994), Crash Bandicoot (1996), Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997), Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998), Crash Team Racing (1999), Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001), Jak II (2003), Jak 3 (2004) and Jak X: Combat Racing (2005). Together, the games have sold more than 35 million units and earned more than $1 billion in revenues.
Rubin was also the co-founder of the Internet company named Flektor together with Naughty Dog’s cofounder Andy Gavin and former HBO executive Jason Kay. In May 2007 the company was acquired by Fox Interactive Media, which is an affiliate that is part of News Corp. Fox described the company as “a next-generation Web site that provides users with a suite of Web-based tools to transform their photos and videos into dynamic slideshows, postcards, live interactive presentations and video mash-ups.” On October 7, 2007, Flektor was partnered by its sibling company Myspace as well as MTV to offer instant feedback from the audience via polls to the interactive MySpace and MTV Presidential Dialogues series with the then-presidential candidate President Barack Obama.
On 29 May 2012, Rubin joined the struggling video game publisher THQ as President, and was responsible for all of THQ’s worldwide product development, marketing and publishing operations. At the time Rubin joined THQ, the company had laid off hundreds of its employees and the stock had lost over 99% of its value from its high.
Jason Rubin (born 1970) is an American video game director, writer, comic book creator and Internet company founder best known for the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series of games which were produced by Naughty Dog, the game development studio he co-founded with partner and childhood friend Andy Gavin in 1986. He was the president of THQ before its closure due to bankruptcy on January 23, 2013.
A few days after delivering controversial remarks at the 2004 D.I.C.E. Summit, in which he criticized publishers for not acknowledging and promoting the talent responsible in creating video games Rubin made public announcements about his resignation from Naughty Dog.
