Last week was a busy week for the Dogs as we had two awards shows to attend, but it definitely had its rewards! Without a doubt, the most prominent video game awards show currently is the SPIKE Video Game Awards – partly because it’s the only show to be televised live and it’s been gaining in exposure year after year. Therefore it meant a lot for us to be nominated for a leading eight awards when the nominees and categories were announced in late November. December 12 couldn’t get here fast enough. On Saturday night, Amy, Bruce, Christophe and Evan all headed over to L.A. Live to attend the SPIKE VGA 2009 while a bunch of Dogs went to the PlayStation.Blog community event and viewing party to mingle with fans and watch the show. I know that we all had our fingers crossed that we would walk away with some awards to cap off a crazy year which included finishing UNCHARTED 2, getting awesome review scores and stellar sales. You can read Evan’s behind the scenes Read more...

Can you believe it was just three weeks ago when we let you know that UNCHARTED 2 and Naughty Dog were nominated in a ton of categories for the SPIKE 2009 Video Game Awards. Time sure has flown and the VGA 2009 show is almost here. In fact, it’s TOMORROW, Saturday, December 12, so be sure to tune in to watch it live on SPIKE at 8 PM. To celebrate the awards show this year, PlayStation.Blog has something special up their sleeves for people in and near Los Angeles (or willing to travel here, of course)—they’ve secured a location and set-up one of their world famous Meet-Ups that will also serve as a viewing party for the VGA 2009. Of course, this is right in our backyard (or is it front yard?) so to celebrate our leading EIGHT nominations, along with the other nine nominations by our friends within the PlayStation family, we’re going to be there. We’ve already secured several Dogs to attend along with myself to meet our fans, sign your stuff, Read more...

On November 19, SPIKE TV announced the first details of the SPIKE 2009 VGA Awards, along with a list of nominees in 28 categories. Reading over the nominees, it was awesome for us to see that UNCHARTED 2 picked up eight nominations, including helping us end up in the running for the Studio of the Year award: Game of the Year Studio of the Year (Naughty Dog) Best Graphics Best Action Adventure Game Best PS3 Game Best Original Score Best Voice (Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer) Best Voice (Nolan North as Nathan Drake) If you haven’t voted already, be sure to head over to the 2009 VGA Awards page and vote now. We’d be just thrilled if Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 ended up as your picks for this year’s awards! Read more...