Happy Monday! You may already be stringing up paper hearts or you may be the down on love type but ready or not this week is the week that Valentine’s Day happens around the world. To make sure you’re prepared for V-day this Thursday we’re starting your week out right and giving you a set of awesome UNCHARTED and The Last of Us Valentines to print out. These are perfect to give to your friends, family, and super-secret crushes. How could anyone spurn Brock the Brick? And Sully’s stache will surely melt anyone’s heart! Credit: Alexandria Neonakis (@beavs) You can download the full set of valentines via here or here. We challenge you to come up with your own Naughty Dog themed Valentine’s Day valentines. Please link to your own creations on our forums. We will still take submissions in the comments section below. We’ll review them internally on Valentine's Day (Feb 14) and select a random person to receive some very cool Naughty Read more...

Of Dogs and Development has been re-named Dogcast. This is the second video podcast of Naughty Dog's development team covering UNCHARTED merchandise, some of our current gaming habits, and other various thoughts and musings. Listen to Naughty Dog Community Strategist, Arne Meyer (@arnemeyer), Naughty Dog Community Strategist, Eric Monacelli (@ermonacelli), and Sony Producer, Sam Thompson (@portablekingpin) as they discuss UNCHARTED merchandise and how licensing, merch creation, and passion projects soar or stall in this two-part video podcast. Check out part 1 and part 2 below or on our new Dogcast video page. You can download or listen to the audio versions of the videos here and here.  PART 1: PART 2: Special thanks to our video editor Jeff Negus (@negusaurusrex) for putting this and all of our podcast videos together. Read more...

We’re under two months away from the release of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and what better way to get caught up with the series than to play Nathan Drake’s first two adventures – UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune and UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves. To help you do just that, we've put together the Uncharted Greatest Hits Dual Pack. The Uncharted Greatest Hits Dual Pack includes the Greatest Hits versions of both Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves -- Game of the Year Edition for only $39.99. The Dual Pack is also packed to the brim with bonus content, including a “Super Voucher” containing all of the DLC content from the Uncharted 2 Game of the Year Edition, as well as two DLC items from Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception – the Uncharted 3 Announcement Nathan Drake PSN Avatar and the Uncharted 3 Announcement Dynamic Theme! To recap, the Uncharted 2 Game of the Year Read more...

Not sure how many of our community may be attending Sundance 2011 - but if you happen to find yourself at or near Park City and the festival, there's a video games panel you may not want to miss. That panel is called Video Games: The Plot Thickens and takes place at New Fronter at the Miner's Hospital on Wedesnday, January 26, 2011, and features panelists from the video game industry who will get together and discuss narrative and character development in the unique interactive medium of video games. We're honored to see Naughty Dog Neil Druckmann make the trip out to Sundance 2011 to take part in the panel -- he's more than well-qualified to discuss the topic, having served as one of our game designers - along with some writing duties - on the UNCHARTED games, wrote and directed the UNCHARTED: Eye of Indra motion comic series, and is author of his own graphic novel, A Second Chance at Sarah. You can grab the full description of the panel below - or on the Read more...

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 Read more...

Last week at the Develop Conference and Expo 2008, Richard Lemarchand gave a keynote presentation in the Production track called “Working Hard and Having Fun: How Naughty Dog Made UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune.” I had the pleasure of seeing Richard give this presentation internally just prior to his trip to Brighton for Develop 2008 and it does a stellar job fully describing the unique and successful production environment we enjoy at Naughty Dog. If you want an inside peek at how we develop games at Naughty Dog, you can download Richard’s presentation slides here (PDF, 8.7 MB). Read more...

SCEA announced a limited edition 160GB PLAYSTATION 3 bundle for this holiday in North America and we are proud to say that UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune will be included in the bundle. **** FOSTER CITY, Calif., August 20, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) today announced plans to introduce a new 160GB PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system in North America as part of the limited-edition Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune™ PS3 system bundle. The increased storage size enables entertainment enthusiasts to store even more movies, television shows, and games downloaded from PLAYSTATION®Network, as well as more videos, music, and photos from their personal collection. Slated to launch in November for $499.99 (MSRP), the 160GB PS3 system will come bundled with the hit game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune™, a PLAYSTATION Network voucher for PAIN, and a DUALSHOCK®3 wireless controller. The previously announced 80GB PS3 system ($399.99 Read more...

Sony Computer Entertainment has released a patch adding Trophies to UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune in all regions. Once the patch is downloaded, Trophies will be awarded on all new saves you start in UNCHARTED. Read more about the patch at the following places PlayStation.blog – Get Your First Platinum Trophy as UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune Trophy Patch is Released IGN – UNCHARTED Trophies Q&A Read more...