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[Update] You can now watch the entire awards ceremony below [End of Update]
Last night the world’s best videogames and game developers were honoured with a shower of awards at the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, held during the Game Developers Conference every year, the only official awards ceremony created for developers and voted on by developers.
This year’s big winner was Uncharted 2, which walked away with a total of five nods, while id Software co-founder and Technical Director John Carmack was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Event director of the Game Developers Conference Meggan Scavio said of the awards process this year:
Naughty Dog, developers of the recent smash hit PS3-exclusive Uncharted 2, has recently moved into a larger office space to provide the studio more room, as well as more flexibility in layout and the ability to adjust to “fluctuating staffing needs - not to mention there are some significant upgrades to help us keep developing cutting-edge, award-winning games.”
From a post on Naughty Dog’s official website:
At this rate, Naughty Dog will need to drastically increase the size of the studio’s trophy case…
On Saturday the 20th of February, the winner of the Writers Guild Award for Best Videogame Writing in 2009 was announced to be Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, awarded to the title’s chief writer and creative director, Amy Hennig.
The PlayStation 3’s wunderkind, Uncharted 2, has managed to sell 3.5 million copies around the world, becoming the fastest selling first-party PlayStation title in the process.
Not only that, but Uncharted 2 was recently nominated for 10 GAME British Academy Video Games Awards, cleaned up at the 13th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, has received over 150 industry awards and has over 1.5 million online users worldwide.
All of these exciting statistics come courtesy of a post on the US PlayStation Blog, where VP of Product Development at SCEA, Scott Rohde, talks about the wonderful achievements of one of Naughty Dog’s ‘top dogs,’ Christophe Balestra, who has worked his way up in the games industry from programmer to co-president of a world-leading company, all in the spirit of Sony’s “make.believe” campaign.
Rohde then goes on to share a slick and inspiring video featuring Balestra, which you can watch below:
The winners of the 13th annual Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA), organised by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS), were announced last night, recognising outstanding achievements in the videogame industry.
The overall ‘Game of the Year’ award (as well as quite a few other awards) went to Uncharted 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum picked up a few nods and Brütal Legend received a couple honours, while David Crane, Mark Cerny and Doug Lowenstein were all awarded industry achievement awards.
Flick through the full list of winners at the 13th annual Interactive Achievement Awards below:
Naughty Dog, developers of the excellent Uncharted 2, recently announced that a new title update, 1.05, will be arriving today for owners of the PlayStation 3 exclusive action adventure title, which will add new Trophies and Medals (which are all listed below), as well as health, weapon and multiplayer tweaks.
Additionally, on February 25th a new downloadable content (DLC) pack will be available for Uncharted 2, but themed around content from the original Uncharted, so we’ll be seeing two new maps (Flooded Ruins, which takes place in and around the customs house in Uncharted, and The Facility, from Uncharted’s submarine pen), while six new player skins will also be up for purchase featuring the classic likenesses of Drake, Elena, Atoq Navarro, Eddie Raja, Gabriel Roman and Javier.
Available now on the US PlayStation Store is a pretty awesome piece of crossover downloadable content (DLC) called the Uncharted 2 Heroes Skin Pack, which allows you to play as one of seven of the PS3’s most recognisable characters from games such as Resistance, inFamous and Killzone 2, only in multiplayer in Uncharted 2! How cool!
Also available now is the Assassin’s Creed II Battle of Forli DLC, new downloadable games such as Thexder Neo, Hustle Kings and Assault Heroes, and all kinds of new Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC, interesting videos, add-on content and themes.
Have a browse through the rest of the new content available now on the US PlayStation Store, below:
It’s another kind of so-so content update on the European PlayStation Store today, but with a few notable highlights, including almost a dozen special price offers on PS3 and PSP downloadable games, the new Assassin’s Creed II downloadable content (DLC) in the form of Battle of Forli, an Uncharted 2 demo (for the two people who haven’t played it), and the usual assortment of Rock Band and Guitar Hero DLC, interesting videos and add-on game content.
Have a browse through the rest of the new content releasing a little later today on the European PlayStation Store:
The developers over at Naughty Dog have been busy planning some pretty unique content for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
The first DLC release for the game will be the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack. Thanks to a collaboration with Guerilla Games, Insomniac Games and Sucker Punch Productions, gamers can run around in the competitive multiplayer modes with seven new skins featuring popular characters from other PS3 titles.
The full list of nominees for this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards has been announced, comprising multiple nominations for Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Flower, Dragon Age: Origins, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Plants VS Zombies.
The Game Developers Choice Awards is the leading peer-based videogame industry awards and is now in its tenth year running. Nominees for the awards (which aren’t restricted or considered on payment) are chosen by “a combination of open game industry nominations and the votes of the leading creators in the Choice Awards Advisory Committee.”
Winners are selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards-specific International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), which is a “new invitation-only group comprised of 500 leading game creators from all parts of the video game industry.”
The full list of nominees for this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards follows below:
The Writers Guild of America has announced its five nominations for the Videogame Writing Award of 2009, comprising the games Uncharted 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Wet and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The winner will be announced on February 20th during the 2010 Writers Guild Awards ceremony, being held simultaneously in Los Angeles and New York.
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.
Developers Naughty Dog have promised that more downloadable content for Uncharted 2 is in the pipeline.
This news comes via a post on their website which notified Uncharted 2 gamers that a live update is now available to fix a few glitches in The Fort multiplayer map.
As hinted at earlier in the week, Naughty Dog has announced that the first downloadable game content for Uncharted 2 will be available this Friday. The update will include a new multiplayer map called ‘The Fort’ as well as leaderboards and player cards – and it’s for free!
The Fort is a throwback map based on the ‘Fortress’ chapter of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Described as a “long rectangular map with wide open spaces and excellent flank routes,” the map enables enemies to use the basement tunnels to get behind the opposing team. Look out for the shotgun in the center of the map and the RPG in the side room in the crypt. The Fort will be available in all Competitive Playlists as well as the Co-op Arena Playlist.
According to a tweet on developer Naughty Dog’s official Twitter account, players of Uncharted 2 can expect something “quite awesome” to appear in the multiplayer portion of the game by the end of the week. The post reads:
“Things are looking up that we’re going to have something quite awesome lined up for multiplayer at the end of this week”
What on earth could it be? New multiplayer maps? New modes? Does this form part of the developer’s promised downloadable content (DLC)?
So many questions! We shall simply have to wait until the end of the week, shan’t we?
Source: Twitter
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