A few months ago Sony teamed up with Naughty Dog and to hold the UNCHARTED Audition. It began as an online competition run with slightly different rules out of the US and the UK, which opened the competition as a whole to a global audience. The competition played out via online video and image posts that were voted on by the community over the course of a few weeks. The voting culminated in an audition being held for the sixteen finalists, representing seven different countries ranging from America to Greece to Belgium, on the Sony Pictures Lot. The audition held some pretty high and cool stakes. Sixteen competitors were selected from seven different regions around the globe for the chance to help design a multiplayer character for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception.   The audition was staffed by a panel of judges who are experts in what it takes to be Drake. Nolan North, voice of Nathan Drake, and Emily Rose, voice of Elena Fisher, joined Naughty Dog’s own Read more...

The Uncharted Audition was a blast and we found an awesome winner to have his own unique character designs put into the multiplayer of Uncharted 3. Winner Jeremy "Spyder" Gallant documented the experience of winning the audition and has now posted the final part of his video. He edited the video and took most of the footage himself. It's pretty sweet. Check it out here:  We'll have a new video from Sony documenting Jeremy's audition win soon. Look for Jeremy's designs in Uncharted 3 multiplayer sometime this summer! Read more...

The Uncharted Audition wrapped a few weeks ago and it was awesome. Winner Jeremy "Spyder" Gallant has now uploaded part 2 of his experience to YouTube. He edited the video and took most of the footage himself. It's very, very cool. Check it out here:    We're going to see part 3 of Jeremy's video pretty soon and will post it up once available. Look for Jeremy's designs coming to Uncharted 3 multiplayer soon!   Read more...

The Uncharted Audition happened a few weeks ago and winner Jeremy "Spyder" Gallant just posted up part 1 of his experience to YouTube. He edited the video and took most of the footage himself. It's pretty damn cool. Check it out here:  We'll have a deeper look into Jeremy's studio visit and news about when his multiplayer designs will be playable in-game over the coming weeks! Be sure to check back in and see what's happening.  Read more...

I know many people have been eagerly awaiting to see if they were one of the lucky winners a an UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves Fortune Hunter Edition from the two weekend contests—one during the demo and one in the first weekend after UNCHARTED 2 was released. The number of people playing over both weekends was pretty awesome and we’re glad to be able to pick some winners from those huge lists of people who played. We’ll, no more delaying… below is the list of winners, which you can also find on the PlayStation.blog. Winners will be contacted via the e-mail address associated with their PlayStation Network account—make sure you have e-mail notifications turned “on’ in your PSN account settings! Official rules for both weekends can be found here and here. Congratulations from everybody at Naughty Dog! We hope you enjoy this awesome, super limited edition set—take good care of them for Read more...

D3 Publisher and IGN put together an invite-only level design contest for their recently released Nintendo DS title, Bangai-O Spirits. D3 Publisher asked only notable videogame industry designers to submit entries into their contest. Word has come back to me that our very own Benson Russell designed a level for the contest. His level, “Verticality,” is now up and can be downloaded on IGN’s Read more...