Missed out on attending PAX East this year? Didn’t get into the Naughty Dog panel because of the humongous line? Lucky for you we took (slightly shaky) video of the whole darn thing and we’re making it available to everyone. The point to our panel, “Naughty Dog Live and Unleashed – Game Design with the Dogs,” was to give everyone a peek inside the game design process at Naughty Dog. I joined three of our game designers – Richard Lemarchand, Jacob Minkoff, and Justin Richmond – on a frosty weekend in Boston to take on the challenge of developing a new gameplay sequence in UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. We wanted to show off the same highly collaborative, iterative design process that we use all the time at Naughty Dog to design a new sequence, with some specific game and story goals in mind, to take place between Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. To keep in the spirit of being highly collaborative, we also opened up the floor to audience questions and suggestions at a key

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Title Update 1.09 will be released in all regions on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at about 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?). Title Update 1.09 includes the following: Changes made to multiplayer character skin system to allow for voices to be included with future skins Made changes to character game mechanics to prevent players from using exploits Fixed ability for players to “super throw” the treasure in Plunder matches Cash awarded per kill in Elimination has been increased to $750 per kill Enabled the ability for Naughty Dog to easily alter the amount of cash earned for individual Medals on a playlist or gametype basis and per-kill Thanks to some of the changes above, we’ll be issuing a LiveData update that will rescale Medal cash awards in Objective games ONLY. For matches which fall under the Objective modes, cash for individual and kill-based medals have been decreased in value, while cash for Objective based medals have been increased as follows: Tip Off –

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We’re proud to reveal that our next batch of UNCHARTED PSN Avatars will be available for purchase on the PlayStation Network Store on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Please note that the PlayStation Network Store updates at different times for each region – so please be patient as the Store update reaches your region. This batch of PSN Avatars has a little bit of a throwback theme as we’re featuring characters from UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune and UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra – both stories covering events prior to UNCHARTED 2. The new PSN Avatars will be available for purchase individually for $0.49 each, although you’ll get a much better value if you get one of the Avatar Packs, which includes 4 Avatars, and costs $1.25 per pack. UNCHARTED Avatar Pack #3 includes: Nathan Drake Gabriel Roman Atoq Navarro Rika Raja UNCHARTED Avatar Pack #4 includes: Elena Fisher Eddy Raja Javier Daniel Pinkerton Please check your regional PlayStation Network Store for specifics on

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Welcome back to the second episode of “The Lab” in July! I have no doubt a bunch of you will be heading down to San Diego this weekend to attend Comic-Con, but in case you’re not able to attend Comic-Con, consider joining us in “The Lab.” “The Lab” is open from Friday, July 23, at 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?) through Monday, July 26, at 10:00 AM PDT (what time is that in my city?). This episode of “The Lab” promises to be quite explosive with the Grenades Only variation of our standard Deathmatch mode. When we say Grenades Only, we mean grenades ONLY. Every player spawns with 99 grenades – that’s virtually an unlimited supply – to blow up everything in sight. Well, actually make an attempt and try not to kill your teammates. We’ve also disabled boosters for “The Lab” this weekend – it wouldn’t be much fun if just about everybody used Sure Foot, right? End result? It’s pretty much what I said in our blog post announcing the

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