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• Richard Lemarchand quits Naughty Dog for USC role

  Naughty Dog lead game designer Richard Lemarchand has quit the studio to take up a new teaching role at the University of Southern California, he’s confirmed to Gamasutra.

• Lemarchand videos go in-depth with Uncharted 3's co-lead designer

  Naughty Dog has posted a couple videos of talks Uncharted 3 designer Richard Lemarchand has given over the past few weeks. The videos are of his keynotes at Indiecade and the Montreal International Game Summit, and can be watched through the link up top. Each one gives you an in-depth look at the process of […]

• Quick Quotes: Characters being "too tough, and too snarky" can inhibit storytelling, says Lemarchand

  “As game creators, we put up too much front in our creations and we don’t make ourselves nearly vulnerable enough. I think our audience senses this, and they emotionally withdraw from our games. I’m not calling for us to get soppy and overwrought. We human beings are also fascinated and impressed by nuance and restraint. […]

• Uncharted 3 benefited from Naughty Dog's version of Google Fridays

  Uncharted 3 designer Richard Lemarchand has said the PS3 series is as good as it is because the heads of Naughty Dog, Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra, encourage employees to set aside self-directed time each week to work on whatever they wish.

• Still "more places we can go with PS3," says Naughty Dog's Lemarchand

  “Captain, it’s got the power. THE POWER!”

• Uncharted 3: Lemarchand, North go deep on storytelling

  Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand and Nolan North speak to Johnny Cullen about the Uncharted 3’s creative process, story, mo-cap and much more.

• Naughty Dog is pleased that Neil Burger will be directing Uncharted film

  Naughty Dog has said it’s pleased that director Neil Burger has signed on to helm the Uncharted movie, and his ideas for the flick are seen as a good omen for fans of the game franchise.

• Resistance 3 and Uncharted 3 confirmed for Eurogamer Expo

  Playable builds of Playstation 3 heavyweights Uncharted 3 and Resistance 3 have been confirmed for Eurogamer Expo 2011.

• Uncharted 3 multiplayer in the works almost before Uncharted 2 shipped

  Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand has said the multiplayer component of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception was in development as soon as Uncharted 2 was complete.

• Naughty Dog designer added to speaker list for DICE 2010

  Richard Lemarchand, game designer for Naughty Dog, has been confirmed as a speaker at the DICE Summit which takes place February 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas. Manveer Heir, lead designer at Raven Software, Zynga Games chief creative officer Brian Reynolds, and Mike Yuen, Zeebo senior VP of content and services, are also confirmed. Other speakers […]

• Naughty Dog using "30-40%" of PS3's power

  In this ThreeSpeech interview, Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand has said the Uncharted developer’s currently working with less that half PS3’s available grunt. “We think we’re probably only using 30 or 40 percent of the power of the PS3 right now, and there’s this great, untapped potential,” he said. “All third-party developers can get the Edge […]

• Bungie to keynote Develop 2008

  Bungie’s Damian Isla is now confirmed as a keynote speaker for Develop 2008, as is Frontier’s David Braben, Naughty Dog’s Richard Lemarchand and Microsoft Game Studios’ Phil Spencer. The event will take place in Brighton on July 29-31, which each of seven conference tracks – Art & Animation, Design, Production, Coding, Business, Audio and World […]