Naughty Dog is traveling across the country to attend PAX East this coming weekend. We couldn’t be more excited to fly out and participate in this inaugural outing of PAX East and meet our fans. The PAX East schedule is looking pretty awesome with a ton of great panels and sessions every day. We’re looking forward to our panel on Saturday evening, where we show you a little bit of how we do game design at Naughty Dog. Be sure to show up early as sessions tend to fill up quickly! Naughty Dog LIVE – Game Design with the Dogs Naga Theatre Saturday, 4:00pm Come take a peek into how we get games made at Naughty Dog. Three Naughty Dog game designers hold a game design meeting right in the middle of PAX East to tackle the challenge of developing a new gameplay sequence in the UNCHARTED universe, and to make it work for both a single-player campaign and multiplayer modes. We’ll take you through the same highly collaborative, iterative, no-holds-barred design

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Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra was on had at the GAME British Academy Video Game Awards ceremony in London today, representing Naughty Dog as UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves wins four awards! Cheers were heard around Naughty Dog as many of us were watching the live stream of the event. We’re all extremely happy and proud to have won the prestigious BAFTA awards in four categories: Action Original Score Story Use of Audio Congratulations also go out to our friends and former colleagues at Cambridge Studio, Infinity Ward, Rocksteady Games, thatgamecompany and Valve for their respective well-deserved BAFTA wins - 2009 was an awesome year for exceedingly high-quality video games. Photo of Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra courtesy of Bryony Stewart-Seume from This Is My Joystick!

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The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards are what I believe the last awards show to celebrate games which were released in 2009. They’re pretty darn prestigious too, as they are part of the overall British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. Evan and Christophe flew over to London, United Kingdom, to attend the awards and represent Naughty Dog. We’re proud to say that UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves is nominated in 10 categories: Action Artistic Achievement Best Game Gameplay Multiplayer Original Score Story Use of Audio Use of Online GAME Award of 2009 The GAME Award of 2009 is selected by the British public from among the ten titles shortlisted by an expert panel of games journalists and gamers. You can watch the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony LIVE at their website. The ceremony starts at 1:45 PM PDT / 8:45 PM GMT (what time is that in my city?). Be sure head over later today and cheer us on!

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Naughty Dog programmer John Hable presented a talk called “UNCHARTED 2: HDR Lighting” to close out GDC10 during the last timeslot of the final day. During his talk John referenced a two-part presentation by Pal-Kristian Engstad, our Lead Engine Programmer, which covers optimizing for the SPUs. We’ve linked each part of that presentation below for those who attended John’s session and those who are following at home (or coming in via GDC Vault access). Introduction to SPU Optimizations - Part 1 Introduction to SPU Optimizations - Part 2

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