While we’re still processing the awesome and inspiring reception from fans and critics at E3, we’ve been heads down working to make The Last of Us something to get really, really hyped about. To that end we’re excited that our San Diego Comic Con plans afforded us the opportunity to discuss our mocap process and share some new content. It was really just a small glimpse into what we’ve been hard at work developing but we think you’ll enjoy it greatly. Take a look: First shown during our San Diego Comic Con panel, if you listen carefully at the onset of the video you’ll hear the noises and sounds of Infected as they hunt Joel and Ellie. They manage to escape into the house of some guy in a gas mask. Are they safe? The masked man turns out to be a new character named Bill. Bill knows Joel somehow and, as you can see in the cinematic, owes Joel a favor.  What for? Well, we’re not talking about that yet but you’ll 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...

Derek Lieu (@KickintheheadNY) decided to take a stab at crediting his own, fan-created edit for a trailer for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. When he was done, he sent us out this Tweet to make sure we noticed: I spent about a week editing this #Uncharted3 trailer. Thanks @Naughty_Dog for another great game! youtu.be/70EBx2ZMyB0 — Derek Lieu (@KickintheheadNY) May 1, 2012 Well, we think it turned out to be pretty great! Take a look at his fan-created trailer below.    Read more...

I can't tell you how excited we were to premiere a new Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception gameplay demo (and reveal) at the PlayStation press conference at Gamescom 2011. We had shown this very demo to a very select group of press back at E3 2011, yet we kept it under wraps until our planned public reveal at Gamescom. If you missed the PlayStation press conference, and my on-stage LIVE playthrough of the cargo plane gameplay demo, check out the video below for direct feed of the same demo. We had a treat for the press who came to our behind closed doors presentations at Gamescom - they got to see what happens to Drake after he climbs back up into the plane. As a special treat to our fans, we brought that same demo to PAX Prime just a week later and showed it off in our Uncharted 3 theater in back-to-back-to-back demos for three straight days! If you missed us at PAX Prime (for shame!), check the video below to see the rest of the cargo plane sequence. While we were at PAX Read more...

With the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta right around the corner, I’m sure you all want to know exactly what we’re putting into the Beta and what you can expect over the three weeks it is active. A few weeks ago, just before E3, IGN posted a thorough first sneak peek at the details of our upcoming Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta. Now, we can give you the FULL rundown of the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta for things that weren’t necessarily covered in the IGN reveal. We put together a handy little FAQ below with ALL the details. When can I start playing?Tuesday, June 28, for all Infamous 2 and current PlayStation Plus members, who all get early access to the Beta.Unfortuantely, PS Plus Members under the Welcome Back program won't be able to get early access in the following countries: Germany, Portugal, Spain and New Zealand. Sorry! If you’re not an owner of Infamous 2 or a current PlayStation Plus member, we’re opening the floodgates to the Uncharted Read more...

We only just wrapped the very hectic, very awesome E3 Expo just a couple of weeks ago – and we’ve been working tirelessly on putting the finishing touches for what I can only believe to be the mouth-frothingly anticipated Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta. We’ll have a full, in-depth look at everything and anything you want to know about the Beta within the next few days, so you can get the scoop before it launches. Speaking of which, the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta will be available for all owners of specially marked copies of Infamous 2 and for current PlayStation Plus members on Tuesday, June 28. We’ll be sure to give you a not-so-subtle reminder when it’s ready to be downloaded. Enough about the Beta! I’m here because we’ve been so busy, we didn’t get a chance to give you a quick look at all our single-player reveals from the week of E3. We had two massive reveals to kick off the week. Putting together an E3 trailer is one of Read more...

We're extremely proud and excited to finally start revealing our plans for the multiplayer modes in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. There's a massive post that just went up on the PlayStation.Blog that just gives you an idea of how much information there is to share, and really, we've just scratched the surface. We wanted to have the opportunity to give you the definitive guide to all of the information we've shared with the media since our Multiplayer press event last week. Before we get started, make sure to check out our Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Trailer below or directly on our YouTube page. It is your crash course into all of our reveals -- and there's even more if you watch closely. There's so many features and ideas for multiplayer we packed into this trailer, that repeat viewings will shed light on things you may have missed the first few times around. The music selection for this is a custom Naughty Dog remix of "Kill Everybody" by Skrillex. Cinematic Production Read more...

Last week, a few of us headed up to San Francisco to attend GDC 2011 for a busy week of sessions and an extremely well-attended press event. With the PlayStation.Blog blogger lounge at the W hotel filled to near capacity, we presented two new aspects to UNCHARTED 3: Drake's Deception - gameplay in stereoscopic 3D and the main antagonist, Katherine Marlowe. It's awesome to now be able to talk about this as the press embargo lifted earlier this morning -- apart from our blog post here and on the PlayStation.Blog, be sure to visit any of the numerous publications who attended for their take on the event and the reveals. The press event started off with a demo of the UNCHARTED 3 burning chateau gameplay sequence, but it was presented in stereoscopic 3D for the first time ever outside of the studio. As I had mentioned over on the PlayStation.Blog, I feel that with this small snippet of gameplay we’ve proven that we’re able to perfectly retain all of the Read more...

Happy New Year and welcome to our first post in what’s sure to be a very busy 2011 at NaughtyDog.com!  I hope everyone had an excellent time over the holidays – and had a chance to log in to UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer during the Holiday Event. While the studio was on holiday break, another barrage of UNCHARTED 3 news, interviews and gameplay videos hit the internets. We’ve put a list of all the coverage we found below. But first, check out an embedded playlist of the three direct feed videos of the UNCHARTED 3 Chateau gameplay we showed off to the press in November and December 2010. Below is a handy list of all the articles, interviews and videos that came out of hosting various journalists in December. Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Interview: Story Details – GameSpot Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception: Escape the Inferno – GameSpot Uncharted 3: Behind the Scenes - Fox News Gamers Weekly Uncharted 3 Storyline, Levels, & Gameplay Read more...

Bright and early this morning—at 3 AM PST, 6 AM EST and 11 AM GMT—the embargo lifted on impressions from members of the press to our gameplay demo that they got to see behind closed doors late last month and earlier this week. We’ll try to compile links to all the impressions and new information on UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception below. But first… The embargo also lifted on a set of screenshots from ACTUAL gameplay that you can check out on our Flickr photostream. We’ve also released direct feed video of the gameplay sequence that made it’s world premiere earlier this week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on the Naughty Dog YouTube channel. The video is also embedded below: Here’s a list of all the articles and impressions I’ve been able to catch so far: Twitter Questions - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Nathan Drake preps for another ‘Uncharted’ adventure - USA Today Game Hunters Uncharted 3 Read more...

Our latest downloadable content for UNCHARTED 2 – the “Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack” – is now available on our local PlayStation Network Store for purchase. The PlayStation.Blog post we put up today has full details on what’s included and pricing for the United States PSN Store.  They also posted a few high-resolution character renders that we’ve got in a convenient set for you to view or download on our Flickr page. The “Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack” bundle includes the six new character skins for competitive multiplayer and two new maps, all based on characters and environments from UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune, at the awesome price of $5.99. You’ll notice this bundle saves you some cash over purchasing everything separately. The six character skins are: UDF Drake, UDF Elena, Gabriel Roman, Atoq Navarro, Eddy Raja and Javier – who was the mercenary chopper pilot. The skins are also available separately for $2.99. We’re Read more...

Despite a late night after receiving our ten wins at the Interactive Achievement Awards (we’re still beaming, by the way), we managed to get up in the morning and close out the D.I.C.E. Summit 2010. Today’s sessions had Randy Pitchford explaining the history, overall development philosophy and business management of Gearbox Software; John Schappert from EA promising not to tell us how much money he’s made and discussing EA’s publishing philosophy in these more difficult economic times; Mike Yuen from Zeebo talking about how his company is looking for success in under-served markets while fostering low development costs; Joe Madureira and David Adams from Vigil Games taking us through their development process of Darksiders as an independent studio; and, to conclude the day and the summit, Greg Short and Geoffrey Zatkin from EEDAR providing quantitative data and analysis on this console generation by looking at trends and comparisons in a variety Read more...

Normally, we’d shed some more light on Title Update 1.05, but what we would be revealing is covered in today’s exclusive reveal by IGN about our upcoming Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack DLC releases. Head over there to read about new maps, new skins, new Trophies and new Medals. I bet now the blurry portion from yesterday’s multiplayer menu screenshots now make sense! Hint: it’s the Trophy menu item. All 13 of the new Medals will be added for everyone when Title Update 1.05 is released on Monday, February 15, 2010. Have a great holiday weekend for many of you around the world! As a bonus, we’ve embedded from IGN the Drake’s Fortune Multiplayer Pack trailer we made expressly for this announcement. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation 3 Trailer - DLC Trailer Read more...

As we were putting the finishing touches on the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack DLC content, we started working on creating some videos we could put together into a trailer to show off the new characters you could buy in the pack. We finished up the trailer last week and GameSpot posted it on Monday as an exclusive. Now it’s our turn to post it and share it with everyone. The video is posted below and you can also check it out on our YouTube Channel. Thanks go out to CHRP718, HighLuxury, I-Owe-you-Pain, W0Wbaggr, Yeef, Fizarf, Gyrian, RyanardoDaVinci, womfalcs3, and BrokenOath from NeoGAF for a little help with this one. Over on our Flickr page, we put up a brand new set of high-resolution renders of all the character skins. We got more than a few requests to put these on a plain background to make it easier to knock them out of the background and use them on fan sites, stats cards, signatures and so on. We listened—feel free to head over to our Flickr and Read more...

Didn’t get enough behind the scenes videos on your UNCHARTED 2 disc? Well, there’s plenty more where that came from—five more videos to be precise—bringing the total to twelve. Over the past couple of weeks, the PlayStation YouTube channel has been steadily adding additional Behind the Scenes videos to the seven already available as unlockable content within UNCHARTED 2. These extra videos go further into how our cinematics process worked and gives you a look at all the actors in UNCHARTED 2, details about the rehearsals, our motion capture process, and a look at how we did A.D.R. on the game. We’ve put all of the videos together in a handy YouTube playlist or you can watch them all in the video embedded below. Hope you enjoy them! Read more...

PlayStation.blog posted a rundown of a couple upcoming PlayStation Home spaces today, which includes a new space for the UNCHARTED universe—one specifically for UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves. Apart from the UNCHARTED 2 inspired environment, the Home space features two mini-games to play. The Home space launches Friday, October 23, 2009. Read more about it in the full write up at PlayStation.blog or you can view the video embedded from PlayStation.blog, featuring an overview of the UNCHARTED 2 Home space by PlayStation Home Director Jack Buser. Read more...

Jacob Minkoff, one of our game designers, and I headed over to theStream.tv studio last night to attend the Coin-Op TV live show, hosted by Robert Welkner and special guest IM chat tech’s Beau and Leo from Radnerd.com. If you missed the show, you can watch the episode on the Coin-Op TV Live video archive and check out Jacob as he took on questions about UNCHARTED 2 from Robert and live viewers for quite a while in the totally packed segment. Coin-Op TV Live 10/15/09: Episode 318—Uncharted 2 & Operation Flashpoint Watch This Episode on www.theStream.tv Read more...

The 2008 SPIKE Video Game Awards was a big day for us as announced UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves through a world exclusive trailer that was introduced by Busta Rhymes. We’ve embedded the trailer below and the video is also up on the PlayStation Store so you can download and view it on your PS3. PlayStation.blog recorded a video interview with Josh Scherr that you might want to check out. Josh is our Cinematics Lead here at Naughty Dog and is responsible for making sure all our cut scenes get done and look great. Read more...

UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves was revealed today with a video on GameTrailers.com and an upcoming cover and feature article in Game Informer. GameTrailers.com posted a video of an ad we prepared for Spike for their 2008 Video Game Awards show and Game Informer announced their January 2009 issue, featuring UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves on the cover. We’ve listed all the information that was revealed today, along with links to the video on GameTrailers.com and the Game Informer January 2009 issue announcement in a post on PlayStation.blog. Read more...

UGO writer Locke Webster posts an article called “Narrative in Games: Where Interactivity Meets Story - UNCHARTED Edition” which explores the design choices, with a little insider info from Game Director Amy Hennig, which influenced the narrative style in UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune. This is the first in a series of articles Locke is writing that takes a look at the different ways narrative in games are developed and presented.  Read more...

Gamasutra posts a postmortem for UNCHARTED: Drake’s Fortune that Neil Druckmann and Richard Lemarchand penned for the April 2008 issue of Game Developer magazine. The postmortem follows the standard Game Developer format and gives an insightful look at what went right and what went wrong over the course of development on our debut PS3 title.  Read more...