One of the Easter Egg's in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is a reference to LucasArts' The Secret of Monkey Island.
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How Uncharted 4’s Monkey Island Easter egg nearly cracked

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has a number of Easter eggs, or hidden jokes, throughout its 18 hours of gameplay. We had an interview last week with the co-directors of Uncharted 4: Naughty Dog’s Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann. And they told us their perspectives on a couple of the big Easter eggs.

Yes, the developers of a series that has sold more than 23 million units still like to joke around with Easter eggs and give a nod to their influences. Acknowledging somebody else’s intellectual property isn’t always that easy, particularly when it crosses corporate lines and sometimes even when it doesn’t.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.