Finally, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is a PS3 Greatest Hits title. Starting on August 16th, gamers will be able to purchase Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the low retail price of $29.99.
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TripleChat reports that a price cut to Sony's monster of a console is all but inevitable now. With reports coming in that Microsoft will phase out its 60GB Pro model and reduce the price of the Elite unit to $299; Sony is going to have to step up and reduce the price of their console. TripleChat states that potential buyers everywhere should expect both the announcement of the PS3 Slim model as well as a price cut to go with it next week at Games Con.

Given Sony's history on PS3 price cuts, there is a bit of worry to be had by buyers as the site claims there are two ways a price cut announcement can go; one that benefits the buyer, and one that only temporary boosts the company's sales numbers. Which one should be longed for by the gaming community?

Read what TripleChat believes the new PS3 price will be as well as what to expect next week from Sony at Games Con after the jump!
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BeefJack writes: "Fans loved the "I'm gonna kick you to sleep" line from the original Uncharted. Now, Nolan North, the voice of Nathan Drake, has revealed his favorite ad libbed line from the upcoming Uncharted 2: Among Thieves."
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Achievements have been in video games for many years, though not in the way we know them now. Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 rewarded players who completed goals with guns, cheats & special modes, while Spyro 2 on the original PlayStation rewarded players who unlocked 'Skill Points' with extra lives.

However, these achievements really created the foundation that PlayStation's Trophies and Xbox 360's Achievements and Gamerscore were based upon, although they were arguably not as rewarding or satisfying to achieve. As the months go by since the introduction of Trophies to the PS3 on July 2nd 2008, to compete with rival Xbox 360's Achievements and Gamerscore system, the challenges set by developers for Trophies have changed drastically.
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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.
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Columbia has found "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune."

The studio is developing the action-adventure video game for a feature film, setting Kyle Ward to pen the adaptation that would be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner.
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Twitter has been used to distribute Uncharted 2 Beta Codes. NextGN posted a page that shows the last 20 Twitter posts containing the words "Uncharted", "Beta" and "Codes".

Hope this help you get your precious code!
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Naughty Dog has said they're working on a fix for the issues encountered in the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves multiplayer BETA. Along with fixes for the PS3 restarting after the game is exited and matchmaking problems, the deathmatch limits will also be raised to increase game time.
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One of the most asked for features on PlayStation 3 games is decent party system, which is - according to Killzone 2 developers - not an easy thing to add at all. Now it is revealed that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will feature a Party System!
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TPSN have received an anonymous tip about casting for the Uncharted movie. The tipster claims that Nathan Drake is to be played by Matthew McConaughey. Read the full piece for more info.
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Ever since the PS3 integrated Trophy support into its firmware with version 2.40, people have been keeping an eye on Sony's other platform: the PSP. It isn't hard to believe that people have been looking for Trophy support to move onto the PSP - it's proven a great success on the handheld's big daddy, the PS3, and taken plenty of cues from the highly addictive Achievement system created on XBox Live. While everything mentioned here is but speculation, Infinite-Bits believes there is enough evidence to favor the idea of trophies coming to the PSP in the near future.
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Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes:

"Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from February 5th, 2009, find Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War at the top of North America's Xbox 360 software sales charts, while Star Ocean: Second Evolution and Mario Kart DS drive sales on portables.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows..."
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playstationlifestyle writes:
Grab yourself a PlayStation 3 160GB Uncharted Bundle from Dell for $100 off! When you are checking out, be sure to use coupon code 138BFW5PN676V2. $399.99 includes shipping.
[ Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Limited Edition Bundle - PS3 ]

Update: Use the Sony Style credit card for an extra $100 off.
[ Sony Style - PlayStation Card ]
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When questioned by CVG if Drake could ever be as big as Croft, Straley said, "Why, do you think he's not already there, if not beyond that point already, in terms of popularity?"

Which begs the question: why do we think Lara Croft is more popular than Nathan Drake? Let's look into this:

Lara Croft is big (no pun intended). She is no doubt one of video games' biggest icons. She is the star of a nine-game franchise, which has sold over 30 million total in its long history She was smokingly played by Angelina Jolie in two films. Oh, and she was named "Most Successful Human Video Game Heroine" by the Guiness Book of World Records in 2006.

Nathan Drake is, um, pretty huge too. He's starred in one game, that sold about 3 million copies. And, uh, that's about it.
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CVG writes: "Even our mums knows who Lara Croft is, but Nathan Drake, the star of Naughty Dog's Uncharted series? We're not so sure. Yet. But director Bruce Straley believes Drake is already up there in terms of popularity with the PlayStation audience."
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The Hong Kong PlayStation Store website has a habit of featuring future LittleBigPlanet DLC before it is announced. The upcoming January 2009 DLC for LittleBigPlanet is no exception.

Now, those in the US had the opportunity to get the Kratos costume via pre-order and PSLS is not sure if we'd get the Pipo Monkey from the Ape Escape series... but they are indeed listed on the official PlayStation website for release on January 26, 2009.

Anyone else hopeful to get a God of War level pack similar to the MGS pack?

UPDATE: Naughty Dog hinted on their Twitter feed at possible upcoming Uncharted-themed DLC for LittleBigPlanet:

Jak and Daxter is #7 in LittleBIGPlanetoid's "Top 20 LittleBigPlanet Level Kit Predictions" Where's Drake or UNCHARTED?
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GameInformer write: Fancy yourself an Uncharted fan? Well you're not going to want to miss our next cover (sequel!). We've got Uncharted 2: Among Thieves featuring 10 pages of world-exclusive details. Nathan Drake returns with a whole new adventure which revolves around the 13th century explorer Marco Polo and his voyages. The new PlayStation 3 title will add a free climbing mechanic and stealth gameplay. Players can also expect all-new locations, characters and a focus on the game's story.
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mcvuk.com writes: Sony is delighted at the success of its debut PS3 Platinum range, and the platform holder is already gearing up for its second batch of releases.

The first games to receive the £19.99 Platinum treatment included first party titles Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank and Resistance Fall of Man, along with Ubisoft release Assassin's Creed. And Sony's Platinum product manager Phil Lynch has highlighted retail as the driving force behind the range's success.

"We are delighted with the response to the Platinum campaign from consumers and retail partners alike," he said.
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The Home Beta has been pretty empty and there has been limited amounts of things to do so far. Today, seems like the day everything is changing around for Home and Home is becoming what it is said to be. The Uncharted room that has been shown is now available in Home for you to enjoy.
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Today Playfire launched a major update to the PF trophy system. We've overhauled the profile page trophy module significantly. It now functions like an overview and takes up way less profile page space. To do this we've moved all the trophies listed here previously to a brand new trophy cabinet page (but more on that later Wink). In the new module you can find cool stats like your percentage complete for your games and your leaderboard rank (dun dun dah!) plus lots of other cool stats about your trophies.

Click on the cabinet link or on a game title will take you to the new trophy cabinet I mentioned a second ago. It's basically a way to view yours and others hard earned trophies. We felt trophies were pretty important so we dedicated a whole page to them which we even styled like the XMB trophy system with a fully functioning, animated progress bar! Simply click "show all" to view all of your glorious trophies "XMB style".

we've added a brand new trophy leader board that you can use to see how you fair amongst your Playfire friends, fellow countryman and even the global PSN elite!
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