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

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Today, January 28, is a great day for us at Naughty Dog as the first downloadable content for UNCHARTED 2 is available on the PlayStation Network Store for anyone and everyone around the world to purchase. Announced last week on the US PlayStation.Blog and EU PlayStation.Blog, the PlayStation Heroes features seven key characters from your favorite first-party PS3 games from the last fourteen months—inFAMOUS, Killzone 2, and Resistance 2. By downloading the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack, you’ll get a chance to use Cole, Evil Cole, Zeke, Sev, a Helghast soldier, Nathan Hale or a Chimera out into the competitive multiplayer modes of UNCHARTED 2 (and hopefully surprise a few people you’re playing against). The Pack is priced in the US at $4.99. If you’re reading from outside the United States, check your local PlayStation Network Store for your local pricing. Since this was our first attempt at importing characters from other games and engines into the Naughty

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The next time you connect online with UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves you will be prompted for a Title Update. Title Update 1.04 makes the following change: Allows players affected by “error syncing player data” issue to connect again to multiplayer While the Title Update 1.04 changelist isn’t copious, the update does address something we’ve been monitoring and looking into for a little while now. Late last year, we spotted a small percentage of our player base receiving the “error syncing player data” message, which was preventing those players from connecting to UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer from that moment forward. As soon as we spotted this, we started looking into the issue, replicating it locally, and investigating possible solutions so that everyone who wanted to participate in our multiplayer modes would be able to do so. It’s been in the works a little longer than anticipated, but a solution to the “error syncing player data”

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We’re extremely proud to let you know that nineteen artists from Naughty Dog will have their own group art show! They’ll be displaying a broad variety of their own art, nicely printed and displayed, at the Gnomon Gallery—which is affiliated with the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. The show starts with an opening reception on Saturday, March 6, 2010, from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Full information on the Gnomon Gallery, including location and hours, and the artists included in the show can be found here. Drop by if you’re in the area and check it out and I’m sure there’ll be more than a few Naughty Dogs who will also drop by—I’m planning on it. If you can’t make it, I hear the show will run into April sometime. We’ll keep you posted as we get more details.

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