I can’t imagine there are too many people still playing on them, but the handful who are will be saddened to hear that Naughty Dog will be shutting down the servers for its PlayStation 3 games. That means the multiplayer bits of PlayStation 3 classics Uncharted 2 and 3 and The Last of Us will no longer work after the switch gets flicked on Tuesday, September 3, at 5 PM PT.
There’s no sugar-coating one indisputable fact in the gaming industry: EA’s handling of the franchise, has been nothing more than a colossal f***-up of note. Five years into the contract, and the sole provider of Star Wars games on current console and PC platforms has managed to churn out…two games. Now granted, making video games isn’t easy. But if we had our way, we'd be swimming in dream games already.
Announced on the weekend, the rest of the Jak and Daxter games will be headed to ye olde PlayStation 4, to complete a collection that began with Naughty Dog and Mass Media Games’ remastering back in 2012 on PS3, eventually finding its way to the PS4 this year with the Precursor Legacy. Said list will include Jak 2, Jak3 and Jak X: Combat Racing, which will allow you to Jak off to your sick heart’s content.
The first new trailer for The Last of Us: Part II is gorgeous and brutal in equal parts, and certainly should come with a strong violence warning.
A former Uncharted employee has shared stories of sexual harassment while employed at the studio, prompting even more claims from across the industry.
Can you imagine then, the amount of art that was poured into Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? The amount of creative genius used to create tombs, treasures and environments that made the game such a stunner? When you’ve set the benchmark in previous titles, the pressure to perform and offer something new must be immense. Fortunately, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy stepped up to the task at hand, delivering a stunner on the eyes
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is far more expansive and robust than a smaller experince might suggest, bringing together the best elements of the Uncharted series in a succinct, breathtaking tale.
More than twenty years after the manic marsupial first graced the PlayStation, the return of Crash Bandicoot isn’t just welcome…it just feels right. A throwback to a more positive time, Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy is a testament to timeless game design and an example of a remaster done right by two studios split across two eras.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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