Posts Tagged ‘uncharted’
inFamous coming to the big screen?
If recent rumors are to be believed we may be seeing an inFamous movie at some point in the future. Rerpots suggest that Sheldon Turner, the man behind The Longest Yard remake and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning has been hard at work writing up a screenplay to pitch to Sony.
If all goes well, further reports suggest that Avi Arad and Ari Arad, those behind the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune movie, will be the main producers of the film.
via VG247
Uncharted developers offer game’s source code to first-party devs
Naughty Dog is looking to really further the Playstation 3’s development, recently announcing that they will make the entire source code for Uncharted available to all of Sony’s first-party developers.
Evan Wells, co-president of Naughty Dog, said the following:
“We’re very fortunate to have a great group of first party developers within Sony that we’re able to collaborate with. We’re frequently exchanging technical ideas and even share some code from time to time. We’ve even posted the entire source code of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune to Sony’s internal severs so that any first party developer can look through it, or borrow from it and we plan on doing the same thing when Uncharted 2 ships.”
Let’s hope that Naughty Dog’s contribution to the community will help other game developers get their games on par, at least graphically, with Uncharted.
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Uncharted Heading To Film
Video game movies are usually a big swing-and-a-miss, often because they’re either based on games with sub-par plotlines (Doom) or games where they throw out the well-crafted plot in favor of their own take on the story (Hitman, Resident Evil, etc. etc.) tossing in unnecessary elements and generally doing a ham-fisted job of things. While gamers generally groan at every announcement of another adaptation, most of us are crossing our fingers behind our backs and praying that for once they’ll get it right.
Most recently picked up for potential ruination is Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Following the adventures of rough and tumble adventurer Nathan Drake on his quest for fame and fortune (of course) the game’s existing plot has plenty to offer for cinematic entertainment; interesting characters, an unfolding adventure with plot twists and betrayals, a romantic subplot and plenty of action. The film has been picked up by Columbia with Kyle Ward writing the script. Ward is already writing scripts for Kane & Lynch and Hitman 2 films so if he gets this right he could be considered the avatar of the video game gods on earth, struggling mightily against the Hollywood infidels to ensure that these stories are told in all their majesty.
Who would you like to see play Nathan Drake? The obvious choice being voiced by many is Nathan Filion of Firefly/Serenity cult fame since he’s already demonstrated his ability to play a snarky-talking, pistol toting badass, but I’m sure there are plenty of other options out there. I
Naughty Dog Reckons Drake Famous As Croft
In the world of video games there’s nothing that can make a company money quite like a recognizable, popular character. Nintendo has filled their stables with recognized icons and profited greatly because of it. Every studio hopes to get that famous money-printer who guarantees financial success.
Naughty Dog’s game director Bruce Straley reckons that Uncharted star Nathan Drake is on his rise to stardom, even saying that Drake “might already be there” when asked if the character could become more famous than Lara Croft. “I feel that Nathan Drake can stand on his own in any line up of the video game pantheon,” he said, going on to assert that the character was a ‘breath of fresh air’.
Quite a boast when you’re discussing a character who has only been featured in a single game so far. Uncharted was quite a success and it may be that people are feeling some sense of real-world nostalgia. Some of the popularity of the title could be that for once someone’s making a real world title that isn’t a World War II game. Regardless, it’s definitely to say if Drake is a video game icon.
Uncharted Patch Adds Trophies
A new patch for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has gone live, offering support for the PS3’s trophy system. The 13MB patch will download automatically, with a prompt appearing upon starting the game.
Gamers, however, will need to play through the game once again to be rewarded trophies. It has been done due to the availability of downloadable PS3 save files, which may lead to cheating.