When we awarded Uncharted 2 our top spot in 2010, we simply thought we were aligning ourselves with other people with impeccable taste; however, after reading the results from last night’s 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (i.e., the DICE awards) we’ve discovered that we’ve also aligned ourselves with the entire video game development community. While we only bestowed a single award on Naughty Dog’s latest outing, the Academy dropped ten awards on ol’ Nathan Drake and friends, including Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering … oh, and Game of the Year. (Pictured above: Some of the Naughty Dog team, visibly exhausted from climbing up to the stage ten times.)
While Uncharted 2 was the hands-down “winner” last night, there were 17 other awards handed out (some of which we’re sure Uncharted would have won, had it been eligible). Other familiar names on the list (which can be found in its entirety after the break) include: Batman: Arkham Asylum, with three awards; Scribblenauts, with three awards; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, with two awards; and Brütal Legend, with two awards.
Congratulations to all the winners. Oh, and let’s just give Naughty Dog all its awards at once from now on; it’s tough to make award-winning games without any cartilage in your knees.
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DICE 2010: Uncharted 2 wins like everything at Interactive Achievement Awards originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Los Angeles Times’ “How I Made It” feature has shined a spotlight on none other than Naughty Dog creative director Amy Hennig, illuminating the secret of how a 45-year-old woman can conquer the gaming industry and nab Joystiq’s Game of the Year with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. She started out as a film student back in 1989 and says she had a revelation while working freelance for Atari that gaming “was a more interesting and pioneering medium” than even the movies.
She worked her way up the ladder and took chances when they came along. When the lead designer on the wacky Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City left the project, she stepped up and took the job. And having talent and intelligence can’t hurt either — she says that she puts her whole education into gaming, from English lit to film editing, and while she downplays her place as a woman in gaming (”This is a young enough and progressive enough industry” to avoid most problems with sexism, she says), she does admit that she, erm, moderated the male perspective on breast size with some of her developers. Because somebody’s got to, right? Excellent profile of one of gaming’s more unlikely stars.
[Thanks, MikeIriye!]
Naughty Dog’s Amy Hennig tells the LA Times how she made it originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Chances are, you recognize Nolan North as Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series. However, ever since the debut of the first game in the franchise, North has gone on to play a number of leading men, including the titular Prince of Persia and Jason from Shadow Complex. Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig admits that she’s “thrilled to see people recognizing Nolan’s talent and to see him getting all of the work that he can get and all of the recognition he can get.” However, she tells Bitmob that she’s “a little possessive” of North because “we were the ones with Uncharted who tapped into that talent in a way that I don’t think anyone had recognized and done yet.”
North will undoubtedly continue to find success as the charming “everyday” man (who happens to be gifted with extraordinary acrobatic prowess). Hennig admits that “Nolan’s going to get typecast because that is his persona. He’s a funny guy and has that easy-going, roguish charm.” Yeah, charming — until he throws you off a cliff.
Uncharted’s Amy Hennig ‘thrilled’ by Nolan North’s newfound success originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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