This is a guest post by David Czarnecki.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves supports Twitter notifications of certain game events directly to your Twitter account. Unfortunately, I think there are areas of improvement for future games wanting to incorporate similar Twitter notifications. Specifically they are:

Twitter notifications from Uncharted 2 display as being from “API”. This is a huge missed opportunity to link back to the game. Every Twitter client I can think of uses this field to link back to its product page. Uncharted 2 should incorporate a change in a title update to link back to the Uncharted 2 game site at either Naughty Dog or PlayStation Network.

Chapter update notifications are disabled until there is a title update at some point in the future. I think this is another missed opportunity to capture some good data about how “sticky” the game is based on how many chapters people progress through at a time. Maybe it would provide some useful data about where people “break” in chapter progression and if this is trended among a large enough sampling of users. Or maybe it would affect the game design process in the future where you could incorporate longer chapters if people are progressing too quickly. And let’s face it, there are only 26 chapters in the game. Uncharted 2 chapter event notifications were nay going to bring about the Twitpocalypse. Sadly, this feature is now lost on a player like me. I’ve played through Uncharted 2, and that’s it. Done. Finito. Finished. I will probably never play through the game’s single player campaign again. So, even if chapter update notifications are enabled in a title update, it’s lost on a player like me.

Trophy update notifications should be more fine-grained. At least I think so. They are currently batched similar to “gained 11 Trophies playing #UNCHARTED2 over the past 2 days”. Lame. I’d love for people to know I’m a “Master Ninja” or have “250 Headshots” and that they should watch their back or head accordingly. At that point you’ve trumped PlayStation Network, because the update times for information on the PlayStation Network are abysmal. I’m done with Uncharted 2 and I have yet to see that reflected on PlayStation Network. Maybe that’s because PlayStation Network is free unlike XBOX Live? Either way, this is a real-time information economy and I’m a real-time information consumer.

I may update this post if I think of more ways that Twitter integration could be improved in games like Uncharted 2.