uncharted: drake’s fortune

Uncharted PS3 Bundle: The Box Art

6:00PM Luke Plunkett | Hear that chime? It’s the box art clock. And it just struck box art o’clock. On offer today is the art for the Uncharted PS3 bundle, which will see one of the console’s finest titles stuffed in with a 160GB PS3, a DualShock 3 and a voucher for PSN title PAIN. It’ll be out next month, will cost you $US500, and if you like fun and think you’ll be downloading movies on the PS3, there are plenty worse ways to be introduced to the console. More »

The PS3? Yeah, We’re Only Using 30-40% Of What It’s Got

3:00PM Logan Booker | Sony’s all-about-me blog ThreeSpeech has an interview up with Richard Lemarchand, one of the lead designers at Naughty Dog. Naturally the topic of Uncharted and its trophies came up, but towards the end there’s an intriguing bit on just how much of the PS3’s processing power is utilised by developers at present. Here are the specifics: “That’s why we think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 per cent of the power of the PS3 right now, and there’s this great, untapped potential. All third-party developers can get the Edge libraries for free and are going to be able to use them in their own ways, to get more and more and more out of the PS3 over the years.” The original Playstation proved that “old” doesn’t mean “slow”, and the PS2’s done a decent job of carrying the torch. It stands to reason that developers will continue to milk more of everything from the PS3’s hardware, at which point it’ll achieve sentience and destroy us all. Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand, Co-Lead Game Designer of Uncharted, talks trophies, Edge, cells and studios… [ThreeSpeech] More »

PAL Regions Get Uncharted Trophy Patch

1:20AM Mike Fahey | The promised 1.01 patch for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has hit the decidedly charted PAL regions of the world, unlocking PlayStation 3 trophy support for one of the console’s greatest titles. The patch, which weighs in at a modest 13 megs, unlocks 47 trophies that coincide with the achievements already built into the game, along with a 48th platinum trophy for unlocking all of the other trophies. Already unlocked all of the game’s achievements? Well start a new game and unlock them again, as they won’t be applied retroactively due to cheating concerns. Right now the patch is only showing up in PAL territories, though we’re certain a North American release can’t be too far behind. AHA! Err, UPDATE: Now available in the States! Uncharted trophies patch released for PAL territories [PSU] More »

Uncharted’s Trophies Numbered, Explained

11:30AM Michael McWhertor | Want the skinny on all of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune’s PlayStation Trophies? All 48 of them? I do. Mostly because I’ll be quite comfortable restarting the game in order to secure them, having not yet beat Naughty Dog’s PlayStation 3 adventure. Arne Meyer at Naughty Dog spills the beans on all the virtual prizes one can secure in the game, just as soon as that patch arrives. Oh, there aren’t details details, more like a high level briefing. Fortunately, it sounds like some of them are related to shooting people in the face, something I excel at in Uncharted. However, we’ve been hearing rumours that if you can get Nathan Drake’s shirt fully tucked in, it unlocks, like, twenty nude codes. We’re confirming. Uncharted Trophies Q&A [IGN] More »