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Big Quality Jumps Aren't Possible with Current Consoles, Uncharted Developer Says

Naughty Dog, the developer behind the extremely impressive Uncharted series, has confessed that current generation consoles, like the PlayStation 3, can't support a big jump in visual quality, like the one from Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 2, largely because developers have already exploited much of their hardware p...

21 October 2011
04:28 GMT

Uncharted 2 Gets Update 1.09

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was one of the most interesting titles launched in late 2009, with developers Naughty Dog and publisher Sony managing to put together a very exciting action adventure story that revived interest in PlayStation 3 exclusive titles. And it seems that enough players are still enjoying the multi...

29 July 2010
05:00 GMT

Developers Will Be Involved in Creating the Next PlayStation Console

Sony has always insisted that it has a ten-year life plan for the PlayStation 3 and the unveiling and upcoming launch of the PlayStation Move motion tracking seems to emphasize that point.But the company is thinking about the future too, a possible PlayStation 4, and one of its main goals is to involve video game mak...

9 July 2010
13:31 GMT

Killzone 3 Will Push the PlayStation 3 to Its Limits

Killzone 3 has recently been unveiled, Sony confirming that the new game will be using 3D to bring the conflict with the Helghast to life and that the aim is to create the best looking shooter on gaming consoles. The company is hoping that the PlayStation 3 exclusive will draw in some of the crowd that loves titles l...

31 May 2010
13:41 GMT

Sony Says Gaming Division Is Leading the Way to Profit

Sony has issued a very positive statement, saying that it will report smaller losses than it previously announced, its gaming business being one portion of the company performing better than expected and is setting the pace for the future. Sony expects to lose about 440 million dollars, which is significantly lower t...

12 May 2010
08:15 GMT

Batman: Arkham Asylum and Uncharted 2 Dominate BAFTA Ceremony

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has managed to pick the most awards at the BAFTA awards ceremony but the big winner of the night is Batman: Arkham Asylum, the action adventure title from Rocksteady and Warner Bros., which won both the Best Game award, awarded to the release that contributed most to the field of videogames...

25 March 2010
12:01 GMT

Sony Patents Videogames That Decay over Time

Sony Computer Entertainment has recently obtained a new patent from the United States Patent & Trademark Office linked with the idea of delivering full games to players for free but with the added concept that after a while, they are set to begin decaying and offer an ever smaller game experience as time goes by unti...

9 March 2010
14:31 GMT

Dante's Inferno: QTE Game of the Year

Remember that sequence you get to play twice through in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, where Nathan Drake needs to climb up over and through a train car as it dangles over a crevasse? If you do not, it's based around looking at the car and determining which elements allow the main character to hang on and then move...

3 March 2010
17:41 GMT

Uncharted 2 Cleans Up at the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the PlayStation 3 exclusive developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony launched in late 2009, has been the big winner at the 13th edition of the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards traditionally held at the DICE conference.The title picked up the Game of the Year award and took home ...

22 February 2010
14:41 GMT

BAFTA Has Announced the Video Game Award Nominees

Game awards may come in different shapes and colors, but the BAFTA ones are indeed some of the biggest out there. And the 40 different nominees on the Academy's list are going to go neck and neck right until the moment of triumph, with a lot of amazing titles present and accounted for. Some were luckier than oth...

17 February 2010
07:31 GMT

Spin Cycle: Sony Says Thank You to Gamers

The NPD Group sales figures, which track both videogames and hardware sold in the United States for each month, showed the PlayStation 3 was in fourth place in the chart, with 276,900 console moved to gamers, less than the Nintendo DS, the Wii and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Still, the console saw quite a good incre...

16 February 2010
02:54 GMT

Quitting Uncharted 2's Multiplayer Mid-Game Will Cost You Money

In the wake of its upcoming, new DLC, Naughty Dog gave Uncharted 2 a really big update, with the 1.05 patch bringing a lot of tweaks and changes to the game's multiplayer. The biggest one would be a new way of punishing in-match quitters, with funds being deducted from their account every time they leave a multi...

16 February 2010
02:50 GMT

Drake's Fortune Coming to Uncharted 2

Naughty Dog, as the developer, and Sony, as the publisher, have announced that a booster pack is set to be released for their last year’s hit, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, on February 25. The new piece of downloadable content should take its inspiration from the first game of the exclusive PlayStation 3 franchis...

15 February 2010
18:11 GMT

Single Player Uncharted 2 Demo Now Available on the PSN

It might seem a bit late but Sony has found the way of putting up a demo version of PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the action adventure title that showed up on a variety of Game of the Year lists for 2009. Before the official release of the game, which arrived in late 2009, only a multiplayer dem...

29 January 2010
03:34 GMT

Uncharted 2 Gets 1.04 Patch, Fixes Data Sync Error

With a new patch just released, Uncharted 2 has reached version 1.04, but to the dismay of many, the update doesn't bring any new gifts, just misfortune and disappointment for few. For some time now, a "small percentage" of Uncharted 2 players was unable to access the game's multiplayer feature due to a ver...

28 January 2010
02:52 GMT

Motion Control and Uncharted Don't Mix

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was probably the biggest PlayStation 3 exclusive release of 2009 and the game that actually helped the new Slim version of the home gaming console sell a lot of units during the Christmas shopping season and gamers are certainly waiting to hear about how the development team at Naughty Dog ...

7 January 2010
17:41 GMT

Naughty Dog Hopes for 6 More Years of the PlayStation 3

There's a lot of talk in the videogaming world about the next generation of gaming consoles and how the devices might evolve to allow for better graphics, more complex gameplay or more interesting controls.Both Microsoft and Sony have vehemently denied working on anything like the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox 720 a...

6 January 2010
16:11 GMT

Sony Adds PlayStation 3 to Unified Distribution Channel

Sony has announced that the distribution duties for the PlayStation 3 home gaming console, which were handled by Sony Computer Entertainment, will be handled by the main company from now on as all the hardware distribution operations will be brought under one roof in order to save money and improve efficiency.A Bloom...

30 December 2009
02:44 GMT

Game of the Year Runner Up: Uncharted 2

A lot of people talk about how gaming should be a cinematic experience and most of the big games aim to have some of the luster usually reserved for Hollywood-made blockbusters. And while we might not yet have the Citizen Kane of videogaming, we certainly have the Indiana Jones in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the Naug...

29 December 2009
17:51 GMT

Uncharted 2 Will Get More Co-Op DLC

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a title that snatched game awards from everybody. It proved to have all the right bits in all the right places and everybody liked that. One thing that gamers really found enjoyable turned out to be the title's co-op sessions, so it's no surprise then that the developers are pr...

29 December 2009
06:34 GMT

PlayStation 3 Gamers More Interested in Movie Tie Ins

One of the biggest trends of the gaming industry at the moment is the release of videogame companions for the most popular movie franchises, offering a different take on the events depicted or a piece of backstory, which movie goers would not be able to get otherwise.Nielsen, the firm that tracks consumer patterns in...

17 December 2009
09:14 GMT

Uncharted 2 Gets Game of the Year Award

The Video Game Awards managed to give off a few awards between playing trailers for pretty much all the major releases coming in 2010 and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony exclusively for the PlayStation 3, has been named as Game of the Year, in a move that snubbed pre-show fa...

14 December 2009
17:51 GMT

Uncharted 2 Will Change PlayStation 3 Gaming

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from Naughty Dog and Sony has managed to top the NPD Group chart for the month of October, beating out other titles that were also released for the Xbox 360 or for the Nintendo Wii.The game has been praised, with the Softpedia review not being an exception, for the quality of its graphics, ...

17 November 2009
03:30 GMT

NPD Software: Uncharted 2 Better than Wii Fit Plus

The NPD Group figures for October are out and they look pretty grim. Hardware is way down even if all major home consoles have lower prices and it seems that players are not even rushing to stores to get the latest big release. The biggest seller on the North American market has been Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from N...

13 November 2009
08:07 GMT

Naughty Dog Asks for Input on New Multiplayer Modes

Naughty Dog, the developer of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, is asking fans of the series which it has created to weight in on the new multiplayer lists which should be offered for the game. A poll has been posted on the official site listing the options and an update, containing the chosen new content could be delivere...

11 November 2009
14:31 GMT

Uncharted 2 Will Shine, DJ Hero Will Disappoint

The NPD numbers for hardware and software sales on the North American market are expected to arrive soon and it seems that after the rosy patch that September was, the videogames industry is set to return to its blue period, with falling sales, less revenue brought in through console sales and falling profits made fr...

10 November 2009
03:27 GMT

Football Manager 2010 Takes First Spot

Sports, in general, and football, in particular, is huge in the United Kingdom. The weekly videogame chart have been dominated for the last few weeks by FIFA 10, the simulator from EA Sports, which was then displaced by Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, the rival series from Konami.Now, football is again in the top spot but...

5 November 2009
04:13 GMT

Future Videogames Might Feature Less Actors

It seems that the members of the Screen Actors Guild, which represents the interests of actors when it comes to licensed work, has rejected a deal offered by the videogame industry related to how actors will be paid when providing voice work for future titles. Members of the SAG are said to have voted the contract do...

2 November 2009
03:08 GMT

Hugh Jackman Set to Star as Nathan Drake

The Uncharted movie is pretty much on track it seems, and the developers are already thinking about the right leading man to portray Nathan Drake, the lovable yet slightly immoral main character of the two videogames released until now.And it appears that the producers have their sight set on Hugh Jackman, the in dem...

30 October 2009
04:49 GMT

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Takes FIFA 10 Down

Another week has begun, so it's time to take another look at the software chart published for the United Kingdom. After three weeks during which FIFA 10 from EA Sports has dominated the chart, managing to even fend off a determined challenge from Nathan Drake and Uncharted 2 from Naughty Dog and Sony, it seems t...

29 October 2009
04:50 GMT

PlayStation 3 Again Beats the Nintendo Wii

The hardware and software sales figures for the week that ended on October 18 have been released by Media Create and they show the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console again selling better than its rivals in the Land of the Rising Sun, while Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has debuted at number five in the software chart. T...

26 October 2009
05:08 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 18 – 25 October

This week was dedicated to getting through the entirety of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in order to post a review for this PlayStation 3 exclusive that is sure to attract quite a lot of gamers to the Sony platform. But there has been other stuff you should know about, like this Weekend Reading piece about the body coun...

25 October 2009
10:21 GMT

Weekend Reading: Uncharted 2 – Killing in the Name of

I killed a lot of people in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a game for which we now have a review up on the site. Yes, all of them were bad, mercenary types that dressed in drab gray or in black and that wore a much-too-heavy armor for their own good (although I suppose that it kept warm that way up there, in the Himalay...

24 October 2009
11:11 GMT

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Kill. Climb. Love. Take down a helicopter from the rooftops. Battle a tank on the streets of a Himalayan village. Get a giant dagger to stab the heart of a millennium-old statue. Climb on a train as it plummets into a crevasse. Save the love of your life from a mass murder. Steal from a Turkish museum. Get betrayed (...

23 October 2009
07:05 GMT

FIFA 10 Makes It Three in a Row

FIFA 10, the EA Sports Canada-developed football-simulation title, has managed to hold on to the top spot in the United Kingdom chart for the third week running, probing that the annual release manages to really offer an improved experience over '09 and that, with the Champions League in full swing, the beautifu...

22 October 2009
12:51 GMT

Uncharted 2 Was Designed to Be Accessible

Playing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, one of the most annoying elements is how little developed the sneaking parts are. There are a few sections where you need to creep around, like in the Istanbul museum, but the player is mainly better served by going in with guns ready to fire and taking out every enemy that threate...

21 October 2009
16:21 GMT

Spin Cycle: Sony Is Redefining Entertainment

Sony was, undoubtedly, the company that had most to celebrate when the NPD Group sales figures for September were released. The PlayStation 3 managed to sell almost half a million consoles during the month, significantly more than the Xbox 360 and even more than the Nintendo Wii, and with three PS3 games breaking int...

20 October 2009
15:11 GMT

A Gamer's Week: October 11 – 18

The big news piece of the week was the release of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the PlayStation 3 exclusive action adventure title that Sony hopes will attract a big crowd to its home gaming console. But the knowledgeable reader can look beyond this and see other important dispatches, like this extended look at how the...

18 October 2009
10:41 GMT

Uncharted 2: Useless Helicopter Overload

Somehow you feel that they are going to be a bother even before the moment you actually see them. For a villain with a military background who dresses his stooges in grey and black uniforms attack helicopters are the ultimate weapon, a way to project power and probably compensate for the many ways in which his plans ...

16 October 2009
18:01 GMT

Motion Comic Prequel Announced for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

It seems that Sony, the publisher, and Naughty Dog, the developer studio, are really keen on making sure that Uncharted 2 attracts as many players as possible. Taking a page out of the book of Electronic Arts, the two are trying to expand the appeal of the videogame by delivering content related to it via a new motio...

14 October 2009
16:21 GMT

One Hour With: Uncharted 2

14:00. Popped in the disk. The first Uncharted did not manage to surprise me in any way and I found the combat extremely unsatisfying. Let's hope the Among Thieves proves to be more interesting.14: 02. It takes about two minutes for the game to initially load up. And then, just before it starts, it needs to save...

13 October 2009
17:01 GMT

Last Chance to Win an Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter Limited Edition

Naughty Dog and Sony are announcing that today is the last day during which fans of the Uncharted series can get their hands on a special edition of the upcoming sequel by simply playing the demo for it. Gamers will need to download the demo, available on the PlayStation Network for all, log on with their player iden...

12 October 2009
05:28 GMT

Uncharted 2 Set to Get Multiplayer DLC

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is not out yet but the creators at Naughty Dog seem to be very eager to talk about what comes next for the franchise. Initial reviews for the game are very positive, emphasizing that the new adventure starring Nathan Drake managed to build on the positive elements of the original while addi...

8 October 2009
18:01 GMT

No More Twitter Updates for Uncharted 2

Sony and Naughty Dog have announced that the planned integration of the popular communication service Twitter into their upcoming Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been dialed down a lot. Initially, the plan was for the game to log into the Twitter account of the gamer playing it in order to send out messages when each ...

29 September 2009
17:51 GMT

Sony Confirms 250 GB PlayStation 3 Bundles

Sony is on a roll. A month earlier, it announced that it would be launching a new version of the PlayStation 3 called Slim, which packed a 120 GB hard drive, offered a smaller profile, used less energy and, best of all, cost just 299 dollars. Now, the Japanese console manufacturer is announcing that a PlayStation 3 S...

25 September 2009
05:34 GMT

There Will Be More Uncharted After Among Thieves

One of the most important releases for the PlayStation 3 coming in the next months is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, a game that is developed by Naughty Dog exclusively for the PlayStation 3 home gaming consoles from Sony and that is set to be released on October 16. And the two companies are doing everything they can t...

23 September 2009
18:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: 250 GB PlayStation 3 Uncharted 2 Bundle Confirmed

There have been whispers for some time that Sony is preparing to put out a 250 GB hard drive version of the PlayStation 3, initially packaged together with some of the big video game releases of the coming period. Some said that the new console version had been conceived by Sony as a multimedia center, complete with ...

18 September 2009
18:01 GMT

A Gamer's Week: 6 – 13 September

This week was dominated by the release of the NPD Group numbers for August, which showed the industry selling about 16% less than in the same period of 2008. Still, it was not all bad news. Here's what you need to know about the news from the last seven days.On Monday, we found out that Sony was interested in ke...

13 September 2009
10:41 GMT

Fortune Hunter Edition of Uncharted 2 Comes with Dagger Replica

Naughty Dog and Sony have announced that they have put together a Fortune Hunter Limited Edition set for their upcoming Uncharted 2, which translates into the package not being available in stores.The Fortune Hunter Limited Edition of the videogame will come with an art book showing off the style of the title, a vouc...

7 September 2009
04:19 GMT

Uncharted 2 Will Emphasize More Action than Adventure

The PlayStation 3 is slowly but surely getting quite a few high-end exclusives, the likes of Resistance 2 or Killzone 2 in the last months. But one title that really made people aware of the graphical power of the console is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, coming from the Naughty Dog studio. Now, as the company is ...

28 August 2009
03:22 GMT


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