EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: uncharted
We’ve seen Uncharted hero Nathan Drake careening through adventures in all sorts of locations, from caves and forests, to trains and city streets, all while fighting off dastardly enemies intent on his demise.
I don’t think we’ve ever seen Drake face off against one of his creators on the side of a building before, though…
Uncharted 3 is coming to PlayStation Home today, as Uncharted 3: Fortune Hunter creates what Sony calls a “third person adventure game experience unlike anything you’ve ever seen in PlayStation Home.”
This week’s US PS Store update is packed with free goodies for Plus members, as well as a number of noteworthy downloadable games and add-ons which are available to all users.
Someone at Naughty Dog was clearly feeling generous because every bit of DLC (at far as I can tell) for Uncharted 1 and 2 is being offered for free to PlayStation Plus members this week. This includes two map packs for UC2’s online multiplayer as well as four motion comics (‘Eye of Indra’) which depict a side-story featuring the ever-resilient Nathan Drake.
Have we just discovered the real name for Sony’s next handheld, the NGP? According to a swirl of reports doing the rounds, the word is ‘yes.’
One week ahead of E3 2011, the official, final name of the NGP could well be the ‘PlayStation Vita,’ or ‘PS Vita,’ which was allegedly the device’s original codename.
Last week we reported that Uncharted NGP (working title) would be set between Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which was based on a claim that surfaced during a recent GameBlog.fr interview with Naughty Dog co-president Christophe Balestra.
Sony has since corrected Balestra’s statement.
When I first read reports about Uncharted coming to NGP I was unsure if it was a remake of Uncharted 1 or an entirely new game. It soon became apparent that the latter case was true, and that Uncharted fans could enjoy a brand new storyline in the portable addition to this classic series.
The co-president of Naughty Dog - Christophe Balestra - offered new details about Uncharted NGP during a recent interview* with GameBlog.fr, saying that the game will take place between the events of Drake’s Fortune and Among Thieves. He also suggested that Uncharted NGP and the upcoming, mightily-anticipated Uncharted 3 will feature some kind of cross-compatibility.
If you haven’t yet had a chance to get good, quality looks at the range of planned first-party games coming to Sony’s PSP successor, the NGP (codename), then this new trailer for the feature-rich handheld console (included below) will prove incredibly handy!
The upbeat trailer has in-game footage for upcoming NGP titles including Uncharted, Killzone, Resistance, LittleBigPlanet, Hot Shots Golf Next, Gravity Daze, Little Deviants, Hustle Kings, Reality Fighters, Smart As, Broken and WipEout, all of which are mightily impressive!
Catch it below:
There have been quite a few rumours and confirmations concerning the reality of an ‘Uncharted’ movie appearing at some point in the future, and naturally gamers everywhere would welcome a ‘big screen’ adaptation of one of the greatest games ever released – the series’ unique action, settings, adventure and story-focussed approach would no doubt make a perfect transition.
That’s why writer/director David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter) has been tasked with bringing such an exciting project to life, but because the adventures of Uncharted are so character-centric, any potential movie would need to cast the ideal actors to truly do justice to franchise protagonist Nathan Drake, as well as all of his frenemies.
In an interview with MTV, it’s been revealed that none other than Mark Wahlberg has been cast in the starring role (i.e. Nathan Drake), and that Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro are also in talks to play parts.
Speaking about David O. Russell and his involvement in the Uncharted film, Wahlberg said:
Last year I wrote an article for videogame industry trade site Gamasutra entitled ‘The South African Game Development Scene: Past Present and Future,’ which attempted to look at the history of game development in the country and surmise how an industry may rise and move forward here.
The article was based on interviews conducted with a diverse, influential and talented group of developers both from and based in South Africa, but a lot of the responses were unfortunately not included due to the nature of the piece, so in an effort to share this potential goldmine of knowledge with aspiring game developers and gaming enthusiasts, I decided to start posting the interviews here on El33tonline, in full, continuing today with part six, and an interview with Naughty Dog’s Judd Simantov (you can read part one, part two, part three, part four and part five at your leisure).
Judd Simantov is the Art Technical Lead at Naughty Dog Inc., having moved from South Africa in October 2004 at the age of 22 to use his specific skill sets related to 3D animation, modelling and technical scripting, and to pursue a career in the field of videogames.
Initially, Simantov’s focus was purely on animation and digital visual arts, working on CG movie shorts and animated advertisements, before being offered a job opportunity at Naughty Dog in Los Angeles, California. Feeling frustrated by the lack of opportunity in South Africa to utilise his unique animation technology skills, Simantov took the job at Naughty Dog and is now responsible for the developer’s character and animation pipeline, as well as the development of the technologies driving the animation.
Simantov has held presentations related to his work at Naughty Dog at Game Developers Conference (GDC) events every year from 2007 up to and including 2010 (excluding 2009, to my knowledge), and has helped the team at Naughty Dog create and ship both Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and the recent industry-crushing, multiple award-winning Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Simantov also co-created the 3D art plug-in and related website, CGMuscle. To find out what he does in his spare time (when he has it), you should definitely visit Simantov’s personal blog over here, and check out the range of artistic endeavours he busies himself with.
Let’s begin this fascinating and highly inspiring interview with Judd Simantov:
Continue reading The Lost South African Game Developer Interviews Part 6: Judd Simantov.
The nominations for the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards have been announced, with 40 different games being recognised altogether representing “some of the most popular, innovative and cutting-edge creativity in today’s gaming industry.”
Of those 40 games, Uncharted 2 leads the number of nominations with nine nods, followed closely by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with eight, and Batman: Arkham Asylum with seven.
This year’s awards will also include a publicly-voted category called the GAME Award of 2009, and comprises games such as Assassin’s Creed II, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. You can have your say and vote on your favourite game in this category over here.
The GAME British Academy Video Games Awards will take place on Friday, the 19th of March at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The Awards will be streamed live for the first time at www.bafta.org and www.baftagameaward.com.
The full list of nominations for this year’s awards follows below:
This February at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, videogame industry legend Mark Cerny will be formally inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, joining the likes of luminaries such as Shigeru Miyamoto, John Carmack, Will Wright and Sid Meier.
Mark Cerny has made major contributions to videogame technologies and numerous titles throughout the years, some of which you may not even realise he had a hand in, including Marble Madness way back in 1984, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in 1992, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Heart of Darkness, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, Uncharted, MotorStorm, Heavenly Sword, inFamous and Killzone 2, with many more to come in the future through his consultation company, Cerny Games.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and US Navy SEALs Confrontation are the two latest PS3 titles to join the Greatest Hits collection.
Stand alone versions of these games are available now in the US for $29.99 each.
Source: SCEA’s PlayStation Blog
Last week reports surfaced that Naughty Dog’s popular action adventure videogame Uncharted would be heading to the big screen. Since then the publisher has confirmed that Nathan Drake is indeed heading to Hollywood.
Sony Computer Entertainment and Columbia Pictures have signed a deal for a movie adaption of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, which will be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Rovan and Alex Gartner.
Nathan Drake, he who is famous for witty one-liners and the mystifying half-tuck, is headed to the big screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Columbia is developing Naughty Dog’s popular action adventure videogame, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, into a feature film. Kyle Ward will be tasked with writing the script while Avi Arad, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner will be in charge of producing duties.
Ward is no stranger to game-to-film adaptations, having written Kane & Lynch (which stars Bruce Willis) for Lionsgate and working on Hitman 2 with 20th Century Fox.
A new set of extremely detailed Uncharted 2 screenshots have been released, revealing an amazing amount of detail in the characters and environments, as well as the smart use of technology such as depth-of-field.
For the low price of one click, you can see an additional five such screenshots (as well as the latest official trailer for Uncharted 2 thrown in for free) below:
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