We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web. Most of the chatter online this week just covered our announcement last Friday regarding the release of the UNCHARTED 2 PSN Demo and the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack, but we did find one thing that we didn’t write ourselves… Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year - Kotaku After much deliberation among the staff, and a good dose of healthy debate, Kotaku finally reveals their Game of the Year for 2009. We’re pleased as peach it’s UNCHARTED 2—I think we can officially say we’re the “must have game of 2009” now that we’ve got some 32 Game of the Year awards to our name. Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog at the Gnomon Gallery - NaughtyDog.com A bunch of the Dogs have been working hard trying to get this group show at the Gnomon

| Read more...

We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web. WGA opts for vidgame sequels - Variety Friday morning, Variety posted the first report I could find of the Writers Guild of America awards for videogame writing. We’re glad to see UNCHARTED 2 and our own Amy Hennig, make the list this year. You would recognize the other nominees as some of the bigger titles that came out this year—Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wet and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The WGA will announce the winner on February 20, 2009 during their awards ceremonies. Congratulations, Amy! GeekTown’s Top 5 Games of the Year 2009 - GeekTown GeekTown counts down their best games of 2009—while it has a slightly few different entries in the top 5 than we’ve seen so far, UNCHARTED 2 makes the number 2 slot. Dear

| Read more...

We wished everyone happy holidays over on the PlayStation.Blog back on the first day of the year, but unlike our friends at Insomniac, we neglected to post the image we put on our holiday cards to share with everybody. Some of you got to see it when word originally got out about our 2009 holiday cards. Since then, we’ve gotten a bunch of requests to post up a high-quality image of our holiday card and we’ve done just that. You can see (and grab) our holiday card image from our Flickr photostream. In the spirit of that, we wanted to share some of the holiday cards we received at the studio below—I really love the brushstroke signature of our one colleagues in Japan. Oh, and since it’s been more than a few weeks since we took off for the holidays, unfortunately we only had a few to show as many cards made their way back to the respective homes of the Dogs. Enjoy!

| Read more...

We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web. Analysis: The Sexual Politics Of Uncharted 2 - Gamasutra Writing for Gamasutra, Tom Cross takes a worthwhile look at the characters—specifically Drake, Elena and Chloe—in UNCHARTED 2, analyzing the archtypes they occupy and the underlying motivations they have as it relates to gender and their relaltionships with each other. Games Of The Decade: 2009 - CVG CVG lists their games of the decade by year—UNCHARTED 2 takes the honors against the usual, but excellent other titles which came out this year, including Batman: Arkham Asylum, Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. PushSquare’s Playstation Game Of The Year ‘09: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - PushSquare Continuing our flattering run of Game of the

| Read more...