Santa Monica Studio is an American video game developer of Sony Interactive Entertainment based in Los Angeles.

The studio was founded in 1999 by Allan Becker and was located in Santa Monica, California, until relocating to Playa Vista in 2014.

The studio was established in an office next to the developer Naughty Dog before moving into a brick building in the suburbs of Santa Monica, California.

[2][5] Other incubated teams include Broodworks, Eat Sleep Play, Fun Bits, Giant Sparrow, Incognito Entertainment, Q-Games, and Ready at Dawn.

[2] In January 2014, Santa Monica Studio announced that it would move from their Penn Station offices to The Reserve, a 20-acre facility on Jefferson Boulevard in Playa Vista, Los Angeles.