After about a week of a “soft-launch,” we’re proud to announce the official launch of the Naughty Dog community forums! You can access the forums via our main navigation at top of any NaughtyDog.com page or by clicking this link: http://forums.naughtydog.com/. We’ve got active discussions already going about Naughty Dog, UNCHARTED 2, UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune, the Jak and Daxter franchise and even an off-topic forum. I’m definitely making a point to be very active on the forums, answering your questions and contributing to the discussions, and we’ll have other Dogs drop in from time to time. You can identify us by both the Naughty Dog paw next to our names and Naughty Dog dev, Naughty Dog moderator or Naughty Dog admin as our title. I would also make sure you were familiar (and regularly check) our forum rules and guidelines to keep all discussions on track and respectful to each other. It will go a long way to keeping things friendly

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With all the activity around the Game Developers Conference last week, you may have missed a really important (well, in our opinion anyway) announcement from Ballistic Publishing revealing the imminent release of The Art of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves art books. We don’t have any copies in the studio yet, but we saw some unbound production versions just prior to GDC and the quality of the paper and printing is really quite exceptional—something Ballistic is well-known for. I’ll post some photos that won’t do the book justice at all when we get some copies in at the studio. The Limited Folio edition, of only 200 will be printed, throws in some sweet extras beyond the standard paperback and the leather-bound Special Edition. The Limited Folio Edition of the art book is bound in black suede leather with gold-embossed cover art, and a matching hand-crafted, black suede leather-bound presentation case with a ribbon. Also included is a certificate of

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Naughty Dog is proud to reveal that after 6 years in our current studio space, it’s time for the Dogs to move on to a bigger, better Kennel. As of March 1, 2010, we’ll be based out of our new studio less than 500 feet away from our current space. We’ve built out our new studio from a raw and open floorplan to a killer new studio that provides us with more flexibility in space, layout and adjusting to fluctuating staffing needs – not to mention there are some significant upgrades to help us keep developing cutting-edge, award-winning games. As I was talking to our Co-President Evan Wells about the history of Naughty Dog and the several moves the studio has made in its lifetime – more on that later – he mentioned that he felt our new space “positions Naughty Dog perfectly to adapt to the demands of developing PlayStation games that continue to raise the bar for our industry for the next decade and beyond.” Needless to say, all of the Dogs are looking forward

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UNCHARTED 2 Soundtrack in Stores Today - PlayStation.Blog Greg Edmonson’s wonderful original score for UNCHARTED 2 was released on a physical format this week—the CD, if you’re curious. The PlayStation.Blog is hosting streaming previews of three until now unreleased tracks to the original soundtrack: “Take That!,” “Tunnel Vision,” and “The Heist.” If you picked up the original soundtrack already on iTunes or elsewhere, you can head over to Sumthing Digital website to purchase the tracks for download individually. Thank You for a Great 2009 - PlayStation.Blog President and CEO of SCEA, Jack Tretton, posted a recap of how well the PlayStation brand fared in 2009 (hint: really, really well)—in it he reveals that we’re doing really well too, mentioning that UNCHARTED 2 is “closing in on three million copies sold worldwide.” That’ll be a great milestone to pass and we’ll keep doing everything we

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