Uncharted 3 is coming. But this ain't it.

​Over the weekend, a frenzy of stories surfaced regarding a possible leak of Uncharted 3 information.

 

Much to the delight of gaming bloggers everywhere, a listing for Uncharted 3: World of Deceit mysteriously popped up on Amazon France, sporting concept art that supposedly went along with the unofficially announced third title in the celebrated series.

 

According to the listing and images provided, rumor had it that Uncharted 3 was slated to take place in India. While everyone ran wild looking for additional information, Naughty Dog's Arne Meyer eventually set the record straight.

 

According to Meyer's post on NeoGAF, all of the concept art, including the logo, was created by an art school student for a class project. From there, things apparently got out of hand.

 

This looks legitimate enough. Someone needs to hire this guy.

​"The guy used the Uncharted universe as the basis for mock work for one of his classes and even listed it as such where the pieces were posted: Uncharted 3 pieces I did for architecture class," Meyer said. "Nice try websites who should actually read the sources of their scoops and do some smart investimagating before posting. It's not rocket science."

 

Being an astronaut as well as a journalist, I actually take offense to Meyer's comments. I'll let it slide, though, so long as Naughty Dog is hard at work on the real Uncharted 3. As for the concept art itself, can you blame anyone for not questioning the validity of these images?

The concept art even includes ideas for level design and mechanics

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