The year is winding down and many of us are headed off to spend time with our families, friends and loved ones for the holidays. We’ve had an incredible year and we’re looking forward to working super hard in 2011 to release UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception. Before we take off, we have one final episode of “The Lab” for 2010. We’re running “The Lab” for an entire twelve days over the holiday, starting tomorrow, December 22, and ending just after the 2011 starts on January 3. “The Lab” will be running a rotating list of playlists culled from past favorites, similar to the “Best of…” playlist from our anniversary event – but with a built-in holiday treat: 4x Cash for the entire twelve days. “The Lab” is a special, limited-time playlist for UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves multiplayer that is active every other weekend. “The Lab” playlist features one or more custom-tuned gametype variations chosen by our game designers to test potential new settings, try

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We’re honored to have worked with 2 Player Productions to provide our community with a stellar behind the scenes look at all the work Naughty Dog put into creating the reveal trailer and all the announcement activities for UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception. You may know 2 Player Productions from their acclaimed documentary Reformat the Planet, as the documentary force behind the first season of PATV, or for their Infamous Developer Diaries – I cannot recommend enough that you watch all of those videos as soon as you can. I first heard of 2PP back in 2008 when Reformat the Planet was making a splash at SXSW – I may have downloaded the entire film from the streaming file because I liked it so much, don’t tell! It couldn’t have been more awesome to find out earlier this year that forces were already at work to bring 2PP and Naughty Dog together in the first of what I hope is a lengthy partnership to provide an exhaustive look at the game development process. “UNCHARTED 3

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Bright and early this morning—at 3 AM PST, 6 AM EST and 11 AM GMT—the embargo lifted on impressions from members of the press to our gameplay demo that they got to see behind closed doors late last month and earlier this week. We’ll try to compile links to all the impressions and new information on UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception below. But first… The embargo also lifted on a set of screenshots from ACTUAL gameplay that you can check out on our Flickr photostream. We’ve also released direct feed video of the gameplay sequence that made it’s world premiere earlier this week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on the Naughty Dog YouTube channel. The video is also embedded below: Here’s a list of all the articles and impressions I’ve been able to catch so far: Twitter Questions - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Nathan Drake preps for another ‘Uncharted’ adventure - USA Today Game Hunters Uncharted 3 preview: A Drake

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I hope everyone has recovered from the progressive cash multiplier from our Hanukkah event and from the UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception announcement. I sure haven’t quite recovered yet! No matter… since before we close out 2010, we have one more episode of “The Lab” to host to go along with the holidays at the end of December – Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Year’s celebrations, and maybe others we’re not aware of. Since this is a Holiday Event and we set the bar pretty high for ourselves with a progressive cash multiplier recently, we’re announcing 4x Cash during the entire TWELVE days “The Lab” will run! That should make for some very Happy Holidays indeed. If you’re new to “The Lab,” welcome! “The Lab” is a special playlist we will be running for a limited time on designated weekends, roughly every other weekend. You can access “The Lab” playlist within the set of playlists found in Matchmaking in UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer. During each weekend

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