Sony and Naughty Dog replaced an accidentally misappropriated Ubisoft image with new art.
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Naughty Dog and Sony issue a new Uncharted 4 trailer without Ubisoft’s imagery

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony and Naughty Dog dealt with a major goof with their otherwise brilliant Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End story trailer released today. Ubisoft’s Azaïzia Aymar noticed that the video contained an image lifted from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag video game, and he said so on Twitter.

An embarrassed Naughty Dog issued an apology and took down the offending trailer. It has since issued a new trailer, this time with a new piece of art substituted for the offending image at the 1 minute 36-second mark in the video below.

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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.