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After debuting in pole position, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End holds the crown this week. Sales of Sony’s adventure title fell 78 per cent week-on-week. Meanwhile, sales of Bethesda’s Doom fell just 35 per cent in its second week on sale – a very impressive figure for the shooter. The …
Read More »Uncharted 4 is really accessible thanks to intervention from disabled gamer
Uncharted 4 has been hailed by the press and topped the charts, but its achievements run deeper than its Metacritic score. The PS4 shooter stands proud as one of the most accessible triple-A games ever made. This, as revealed in the video below, is thanks to a meeting between Josh …
Read More »‘Games do more than entertain the disabled’: How Naughty Dog made Uncharted 4 more accessible
Changes ranged from snap-on targeting and camera assistance to optional ability to hold button instead of mashing and multiplayer UI colour tweaks
Read More »There’s a petition to remove Washington Post’s Uncharted 4 score from Metacritic
Change.org has been home to many a noble venture, but perhaps this is the most heroic of all. Washington Post’s review of PS4 action title Uncharted 4, which was titled This four-part series should have ended after Part One”, was not very positive. It ended: A Thief’s End is less …
Read More »PlayStation: Uncharted’s fanbase has never been bigger
Sony is investing more marketing money in Uncharted 4 than it has with any previous game. Marketing manager Joe Palmer says that there has been an influx of PS4 owners that never owned a PS3 – which was the console the previous three Uncharted games were released on. Therefore the …
Read More »PlayStation and Channel 4 team up for Uncharted Gogglebox ad takeover
Gamers will have a chance to win Uncharted prizes during tonight (Friday, May 6th)’s Gogglebox. Sony and Channel 4 have partnered for an ad takeover in the first commercial break for the TV show. This will feature a ‘large’ section of gameplay from the upcoming release. Then viewers will be …
Read More »UPDATE: Stolen games behind early UK arrival of Uncharted 4
UPDATE: All Uncharted 4 stock sold at CEX and on eBay was the result of a violent assault and theft, PlayStation has said. "We can confirm that unfortunately some contents from a lorry transporting a variety of video game and DVD titles, including a quantity of the much anticipated Uncharted …
Read More »Uncharted 4 street date broken in UK, US and Germany
It’s not out until May 10th, but some people have already got their hands on upcoming PS4 shooter Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Videogamer reports that at least one individual obtained a copy of the game from CEX in the UK yesterday. "I went in to CEX… to actually buy …
Read More »The Big Game: Naughty Dog on the end of Uncharted
Four appears to be the magic number for Sony’s Naughty Dog studio. It made four Crash Bandicoot games on the first PlayStation, before walking away from the smash hit series. It created four Jak and Daxter titles on PS2, and then waved goodbye to those characters. And now it says …
Read More »‘There’s a lot of sadness about Uncharted’s end,’ says Naughty Dog
Developer Naughty Dog says it became emotional as it put the finishing touches to Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. The major PS4 sequel, which is due on May 10th, will be the studio’s final ever Uncharted game. Lead designer Ricky Cambier tells MCV that the studio feels this is the …
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