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Uncharted Waters Origin first launched in South Korea on August 23, 2022.
Here is an overview of the game, via LINE Games:
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To offer players ever more immersive experience, Uncharted Waters Origin uses real-world big data such as the direction and speed of wind, currents and waves. Built with 4K graphics of Unreal Engine 4, the game presents famous figures from world history, and surrounding details in 2D illustrations and 3D models.
Over 104 fully orchestrated soundtracks including the original tracks by YoKo Kanno, adds to the immersive experience. Launched first in South Korea, Uncharted Waters Origin has won four awards the 2022 Korea Game Awards, including Grand Prize, Best Scenario and Sound category.
Starting today and throughout February 20, interested players can pre-register for Uncharted Waters Origin on its main website. All pre-registered players will be rewarded with various items including ships, shipbuilding materials and equipment that can help boost an early start.
The world’s chances of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown are diminishing rapidly, as we enter “uncharted territory of destruction” through our failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions and take the actions needed to stave off catastrophe, leading scientists have said.
Despite intensifying warnings in recent years, governments and businesses have not been changing fast enough, according to the United in Science report published on Tuesday. The consequences are already being seen in increasingly extreme weather around the world, and we are in danger of provoking “tipping points” in the climate system that will mean more rapid and in some cases irreversible shifts.
Recent flooding in Pakistan, which has covered a third of the country in water, is the latest example of extreme weather that is devastating swathes of the globe. The heatwave across Europe including the UK this summer, prolonged drought in China, a megadrought in the US and near-famine conditions in parts of Africa also reflect increasingly prevalent extremes of weather.
The secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, said: “There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction. This year’s United in Science report shows climate impacts heading into uncharted territory of destruction.”
The world is as likely as not to see temperatures more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, within the next five years, the report found. Governments agreed to focus on holding temperatures within the 1.5C limit at the landmark UN Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow last November, but their pledges and actions to cut emissions fell short of what was needed, the report found.
Since Cop26, the invasion of Ukraine and soaring gas prices have prompted some governments to return to fossil fuels, including coal. Guterres warned of the danger: “Each year we double down on this fossil fuel addiction, even as the symptoms get rapidly worse.”
The world was also failing to adapt to the consequences of the climate crisis, the report found. Guterres condemned rich countries that had promised the developing world assistance but failed to deliver. “It is a scandal that developed countries have failed to take adaptation seriously, and shrugged off their commitments to help the developing world,” he said.
Rich countries should provide $40bn (£34.5bn) a year at once to help countries adapt, he said, and increase that to $300bn a year by 2030.
The question of adaptation to the impacts of extreme weather, and the “loss and damage” that vulnerable countries are experiencing, is likely to be one of the key issues at the forthcoming Cop27 UN climate talks in Egypt in November. Leading figures are concerned about the prospects for that conference, as geopolitical upheavals have imperilled the fragile consensus reached at Glasgow.
Tasneem Essop, the executive director of the Climate Action Network, said governments must prepare for Cop27 with action plans that reflected the urgency of the crisis. “The terrifying picture painted by the United in Science report is already a lived reality for millions of people facing recurring climate disasters. The science is clear, yet the addiction to fossil fuels by greedy corporations and rich countries is resulting in losses and damages for communities who have done the least to cause the current climate crisis.”
She added: “For those already experiencing the climate emergency, particularly in the global south, the Cop27 conference in Egypt must agree to new funding to help them rebuild their lives.”
The United in Science report was coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization, and involves the UN Environment Programme, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the World Climate Research Programme, the Global Carbon Project, the UK’s Met Office and the Urban Climate Change Research Network.
The United in Science report found:
The past seven years were the hottest on record and there is a 48% chance during at least one year in the next five that the annual mean temperature will temporarily be 1.5C higher than the 1850-1900 average.
Global mean temperatures are forecast to be between 1.1C and 1.7C higher than pre-industrial levels from 2022-2026, and there is a 93% probability that at least one year in the next five will be warmer than the hottest year on record, 2016.
Dips in carbon dioxide emissions during the lockdowns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic were temporary, and carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels returned to pre-pandemic levels last year.
National pledges on greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to hold global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Climate-related disasters are causing $200m in economic losses a day.
Nearly half the planet – 3.3 to 3.6 billion people – are living in areas highly vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis, but fewer than half of countries have early warning systems for extreme weather.
As global heating increases, “tipping points” in the climate system cannot be ruled out. These include the drying out of the Amazon rainforest, the melting of the ice caps and the weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, known as the Gulf stream.
By the 2050s, more than 1.6 billion people living in 97 cities will be regularly exposed to three-month average temperatures reaching at least 35C.
News of a video game remake is always the bellwether to a hurricane of discourse. Has it really been that long? Does this game really deserve a remake? This week, the eye of the storm is The Last of Us, as fans debate whether or not the visuals in the just-unveiled remake look measurably better than those of the original.
Announced last night during Hot Geoff Summer’s kickoff showcase, The Last Of Us Part I is a total remake of The Last of Us, Naughty Dog’s seminal apocalyptic action game for PlayStation 3. (Sony inadvertently leaked the remake’s existence a few hours before the show, taking some wind out of the sails of the official reveal. Naughty Dog is also developing a standalone multiplayer Last of Us spin-off.) Part I, which sports improved visuals and “modernized gameplay,” is due September 2 for PlayStation 5 and at a later date for PC.
When The Last of Us came out in 2013, it was widely considered the ne plus ultra of graphical fidelity for its era. The remastered version for PlayStation 4, released in 2014, looks even better. You could make a case that, at least in the era of diminishing returns for graphical fidelity, The Last of Us Remastered is already a pretty modern-looking game.
Two sides of the debate around The Last of Us Part I’s visuals can be neatly summed up by one of two statements made in response to Naughty Dog’s announcement of Part Ion Twitter:
“This doesn’t look that much better than the remaster,” one person wrote.
“The difference is incredible,” wrote another.
Right now, Twitter is awash with side-by-side images comparing The Last of Us Part I to its predecessors. Some mashed screenshots of the remake against the 2013 original, where the muddier visuals are obviously more stark. Others use the remaster as a base point, which comes across as comparing a very pretty game with a very pretty game.
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Getting into the weeds, some folks acknowledge visual improvements while also expressing disappointment with the changes in art direction those improvements bring. For instance, Joel, the protagonist, looks more weathered and weary in the remake, bearing a closer resemblance to his character model from 2020’s The Last of Us Part II, set several years after the events of the first game.
The reveal has also sparked some questions about whether or not a remake of a relatively recent—and relatively good-looking—game is worth the allocation of Sony’s resources. Naughty Dog, one of Sony’s most prestigious first-party studios, could be working on anything else right now, whether that’s another entry in its popular Uncharted series or an expansion for The Last of Us Part II. (Last night, Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann said he’s helming a new project at the studio but didn’t share any further details.)
Others have baselessly posited that a remake isn’t a Naughty Dog passion project but rather part of a Sony-directed marketing push for the forthcoming television adaptation. (Druckmann, who’s an executive producer of the show, teased a single production still during last night’s event, showing stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey crouching in a dimly lit room.) The series, currently in production at HBO, does not have a release date.
There’s logic behind the idea that, ahead of the show’s incoming premiere, Sony would want to drum up buzz for newcomers and freshen the memories of longtime fans. It is, however, purely speculative. Sony did not respond to a request for comment.
To be clear, I…am not totally sure where I stand on all of this! That’s a question for Future Me. I mean, who knows! Maybe Last of Us feels like a whole new game with its controls brought up to 2022 standards. Maybe the visuals on PS5 pop in a way I won’t be able to grasp until I play it in action. These are the sorts of things that cannot reasonably be assessed until a game is out.
But there’s one affront I’m pretty damn comfortable in assessing today: $$$$. The Last of Us Part I is listed at the soon-to-be-standard price point for next-gen games, with editions ranging from $70 for the base to $100 (with the pricier editions including a slew of in-game perks and gear off the bat). PS5 owners who subscribe to PS Plus can currently get The Last of Us: Remastered at no extra cost. It’s one of the games in the PS Plus Collection.
Today during the latest Summer Game Fest event, Naughty Dog announced a multiplayer-focused take on The Last of Us and promised more info will be revealed next year.
According to Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, who spoke on stage during the event, the team isn’t quite ready yet to completely reveal the game but wanted to show some early concept art on the online project, calling it as large as any of their previous singleplayer games.
A later tweet called it the studio’s “biggest online experience” yet.
Last year, data miners found files buried in The Last of Us Part IIthat pointed toward an online mode that might have been inspired by popular battle royale games like Fortnite and PUBG. Back in 2020, footage of what appears to be Last of Us Part II multiplayer also leaked.
We’ve known for some time that Naughty Dog has been working on a The Last of Us-inspired multiplayer project. The developer had originally planned to include a multiplayer mode in The Last of Us Part II, released in June 2020. However, these plans changed in the summer of 2019, when the studio announced it was shelving the online portion of its The Last of Us sequel in order to focus all of its resources on the single-player campaign.
Then in 2021, more evidence of Naughty Dog having a new standalone multiplayer action game in development emerged when the company began hiring more devs for a project it described as a “new standalone multiplayer action game” that would feature a “cinematic experience” between online players.
So, not too surprising that the studio has now officially confirmed that, yes, it is in fact working on a The Last of Us online game.
The series first, 2013 game included what became a beloved multiplayer mode, Factions, and according to Naughty Dog, the 2020 sequel’s shelved multiplayer was going to be inspired by that fan-favorite experience. But that grew into something bigger, and eventually, the team decided to cut it free from The Last of Us Part II. At the time, the studio promised that players would get to play the expanded mode in some form in the future, and with today’s announcement, it appears to be following through.
A new PlayStation rumor has some bad news for Uncharted fans. It’s been about six years since Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End was released via the PS4, and five years since the last Uncharted game, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, was released. To put that into perspective, in ten years, eight Uncharted games were released between four mainline games and various spin-offs. All fans of the Nathan Drak series have gotten recently is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (ports) and the new Tom Holland movie. And it sounds like that’s not changing anytime soon if a new rumor is accurate.
Naughty Dog — the developer responsible for the series — has confirmed it’s working on three games. We know one of these games is some type of standalone online game for The Last of Us Part II. What the other two projects are is a mystery though. There have been rumors a remake of The Last of Us is in the works, but according to a new rumor it’s a new fantasy IP and The Last of Us Part III.
The new rumor comes the way of Oops Leaks over on Twitter, whose report makes absolutely no mention of a new Uncharted game, which is strange considering the success of the movie. However, just because Naughty Dog isn’t working on an Uncharted game doesn’t mean a different PlayStation studio isn’t. That said, even if this is the case, this would obviously be less than ideal for fans of the series, as Naughty Dog is not only the creators of Uncharted, but they are one of the best studios in the business.
All of this speculation is based on a rumor though, and for now, this rumor should be taken with a major grain of salt. Of course, if any implicated party comments on this rumor and speculation we will be sure to update the story accordingly. In the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts and hot-takes in the comments section or, alternatively, hit me up on Twitter @Tyler_Fischer_ and let me know over there. Would you be interested in an Uncharted revival if it’s not courtesy of Naughty Dog?
SATURDAY AM: See, streamers, people do like to go to the movies: Sony’s Uncharted is overperforming past its mid $30M projections over 4-days with a $45M take. Even though the movie stars Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s Tom Holland, this videogame adaptation was never expected to be a Marvel movie. Rather, what Sony has here is a nice franchise start and buddy movie. Some rivals are even seeing a $50M 4-day for Uncharted.
Box office analytics firm EntTelligence spots 1.2M admissions for Uncharted with 50% of the audience coming during prime hours of 6PM to 9PM on Friday and over 17% seeing the movie after 9PM.
The PG-13 movie is coming in ahead of previous Presidents Day action film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, which even though it was R, did $41.7M over the four day holiday in 2015. On a 3-day basis, at $40M, it’s under 2001 videogame feature adaptation, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ($47.7M), an IP that Paramount was able to squeeze another sequel out of with Angelina Jolie.
Audiences like Uncharted better than critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 88% to 39% Rotten. CinemaScore stands at a respectable B+ while Comscore/Screen Engine shows 79% overall positive score and a 61% recommend while kids under 12 say the movie was well worth their time with a huge 96% and a 57% recommend. Guy skewing movie here, natch, at 65% with 48% under 25, 75% under 35, with the diversity demos showing 43% Caucasian, 26% Latino and Hispanic, 15% Black, and 16% Asian/other. Imax and PLF rep 37% of the Ruben Fleischer directed movie so far, with Imax charting seven out of the top ten runs. Best markets of play were West, Southeast and Canada. Last weekend, Uncharted made $22M in 15 offshore territories.
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Holland’s other movie on the box office charts, Spider-Man: No Way Home, is looking at a solid 10th weekend of $9.1M over 4-days taking its total to $772.1M. Already the third highest grossing movie at the domestic box office after Star Wars: Force Awakens ($936.7M) and Avengers: Endgame ($858.3M), some industry estimates believe this Jon Watts directed MCU title ends its run at $800M.
“Dog” Everett
MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Channing Tatum movie Dog, with an A- CinemaScore and PostTrak 82% positive/66% recommend, is also coming in ahead of projections with a $14.4M start over 4-days. EntTelligence shows Dog pulling in 360k moviegoers yesterday with 52% of patrons coming before 7PM. Pic is leaning toward 55% female, 69% over 25, 47% over 35 and 32% over 45. The 3-day of $12.3M is just under last weekend’s older female skewing movie Death on the Nile. West, Midwest and South are strong markets with smaller cities like St. Louis, Austin, Nashville, Portland, Cleveland, Charlotte popping.
While the top of the box office is great, as is typical during the pandemic, total tickets sales for the 4-day holiday are estimated to be at $107M, which is 41% off from the last Presidents Day weekend when the business was truly alive back in February 2020 with when Sonic the Hedgehog led with a $70M start. What’s missing from the box office is the middle, which means more counterprogramming and movies, and that overall low weekend number may be more indicative of pandemic supply, and the studios spacing out there movie at this point in time, then demand. Compared to two movies this weekend doing over $13M over 4-days, there were five movies grossing over $13M during Presidents Day holiday 2020: Sonic ($70M), Birds of Prey ($19.7M, weekend 2), Fantasy Island ($13.7M, weekend 1), The Photograph ($13.2M, weekend 1), and Bad Boys for Life ($13.1M, weekend 5). The 10th ranked movie that weekend was the Will Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus Searchlight comedy Downhill opening to $5.1M, whereas in 10th this weekend it’s LD Entertainment financed horror movie The Cursed with a $1.8M opening which is being handled by NEON through a service deal.
EntTelligence notices that compared to last year’s Presidents Day weekend when NYC and LA were closed, this year there are approximately 4x more showtimes, 5.5x more seats for the public to purchase, a dramatic reduction in blocked seats, and the average available ticket price has gone up by $1.
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The Cursed, written and directed by Sean Ellis, is set in rural 19th-century France where a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons in the process. Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie. Rotten Tomatoes is at a 74% fresh critics’ rating, but audiences don’t agree with a 58% positive, 36% recommend on PostTrak. Men at 58% showed up, with 18-34 moviegoing core repping 62%. Diversity demos were 57% Caucasian, 20% Latino and Hispanic, 11% Black, and 12% Asian/other. Any business for Cursed came from the South and the coasts.
10.) The Cursed(LD) 1,687 theaters Fri $594K/3-day $1.6M/4-day $1.8M/Wk 1
FRIDAY AM: Sony’s Uncharted, based on the 15-year-old Sony PlayStation video game created by Amy Hennig and Naughty Dog, grossed $3.7M in Thursday night previews that began at 4 p.m.
That’s a solid number that bests the pre-pandemic previews of such mid-February hits as Sonic the Hedgehog ($3M, from showtimes that began at 5 p.m.), Kingsman: The Secret Service ($1.5M, 7 p.m.) and even with March PG-13 adventure movie Kong: Skull Island ($3.7M). Industry projections earlier this week had the PG-13 Tom Holland-Mark Wahlberg pic in the mid-$30Ms over the four-day Presidents Day weekend, possibly $40M, but these preview figures provide great hope for better returns.
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes have thumbed down Uncharted at 39% Rotten, but it’s not a movie for them: It’s a pure, breezy, fun popcorn film. If all goes well for Sony, the studio might have a new franchise on it hands from this Ruben Fleischer-directed film. Uncharted, which took Fleischer around two years to make from pre-production to finish, carried a production cost of $120M before P&A.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service, which was R-rated, played over the Presidents Day/Valentine’s Day weekend in 2015 and minted $41.7M over four days and $36.2M over three. Sonic the Hedgehog, a long-awaited PG movie based on a classic Sega character, greatly soared in its 2020 Presidents Day frame debut with $58M over three days, $70M over four, but no one is expecting Uncharted to do those types of numbers.
There’s plenty of optimism at the pandemic box office this weekend with 22% K-12 schools off today and another 8% of colleges, heading toward 87% K-12 on break Monday along with 32% colleges off, according to Comscore. The U.S. now is averaging 136,100 new Covid cases daily, per Johns Hopkins University, which reps a 44% decline from last week. New Covid cases have dropped to about a sixth of the peak of more than 800K daily cases a month ago.
‘Dog’ MGM/UAR
MGM/United Artists Releasing has the buddy canine comedy Dog, starring Channing Tatum, which saw $1.26M in Valentine’s Day sneaks and Thursday previews starting at 4 p.m. The movie, which Tatum also co-directed, is 80% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and has an outlook of $12M over four days with an eye on women and Latino and Hispanic audiences.
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‘Death on the Nile’ Disney
Among movies in regular release, 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Death on the Nile won the week with an estimated $18.7M after a $726K Thursday, -25% from Wednesday at 3,280 theaters. Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen Wilson romantic comedy Marry Me ended week 1 with $13.1M, boosted earlier in the week by a No. 1 lead over Valentine’s Day with $3M at 3,642. Thursday was close to $500K, down 18% from Wednesday. Paramount’s Jackass Forevertook second at 3,653 theaters with a $12.1M second week, after $676K on Thursday, -10% from Wednesday, for a running total of $41.5M. Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Homeended its ninth week with $11M after a $590K Thursday, -5% from Wednesday, sending its total domestic cume to $762.9M at 3,300. Briarcliff Entertainment’s Liam Neeson action movie Blacklightsaw a first week of $5.3M at 2,772 theaters after a $223K Thursday, -26%.
‘Uncharted’ Hits Early Offshore Waters With $22M; ‘Death On The Nile’ Cruises To $21M Overseas Bow; ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Tops $1.8B WW – International Box Office
Columbia Pictures’ new Uncharted movie from Venomdirector Ruben Fleischer is a testament to the idea that the longer much-buzzed-about adaptations of beloved franchises linger in development hell, the more likely they are to emerge from it — that is if they ever do — as warped misfires that might have been better kept in the drafts. Uncharted isn’t the first movie this is true of. But unlike so many other adaptations in this class, which tend to feel hamstrung by a lack of understanding of what people like about the source material, you do get the sense watching Uncharted that everyone involved vaguely “gets” what all the fuss is meant to be about. Uncharted knows what it’s supposed to be — the problem’s that it is profoundly uninterested in being that thing.
Uncharted draws upon elements from multiple Uncharted games in order to build a story around a younger, more inexperienced Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) who’s sucked into the jet setting, tomb raiding lifestyle after a not-so-chance encounter with conman / treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg). Though Nathan, a lonesome bartender with a troubled past and no close family in the present day, knows better than to trust smooth-talking strangers who pick pockets better than he does, Sully’s able to earn the younger man’s trust and recruit him onto a big job by playing up his connections and similarities to Nathan’s long-lost brother, Sam.
Sully and Nathan having a disagreement.Columbia Pictures
Technically, Uncharted opens on one of its surprisingly few major set pieces that take place towards the end of the movie before jumping back in time to focus on Nathan and Sully’s meeting. But Nathan’s path to lost treasure actually begins back in his adolescence when he (Tiernan Jones in flashbacks) and Sam (Rudy Pankow) were just two wayward boys sneaking out of their orphanage to steal valuable pieces of history from museums, as children are wont to do. What Uncharted attempts to do in its opening scenes is convey to you how Nathan and Sam’s love for treasure hunting and their being ripped away from each other in their youth laid the groundwork for the adult Nathan to become the sort of person to be won over by Sully’s charms. But what Uncharted inadvertently ends up doing instead is drawing attention to its own indecision about who its main character is and what kind of people they are.
Watching Holland and Wahlberg try to play off of one another in basically any of the movie’s comedic scenes is like gazing into a sharp crystallization of just how fraught Uncharted’s journey to the big screen was. Long before it shifts fully into action mode, Uncharted tries to sell you on the idea of itself as a buddy adventure flick. But the bulk of Nathan and Sully’s banter falls flat due to an unfortunate blend of questionable chemistry and hackneyed dialogue that makes even the dullest of video game cutscenes shine by comparison.
Wahlberg, who was one of the frontrunners to play Drake over a decade ago, neither seems particularly excited about nor down on the idea of playing Sully — he just looms like a reminder of the Uncharted movie that could have been. Holland’s Nathan is, by comparison, the more engaging of the two characters, but the degree to which Uncharted attempts to rely on Holland’s boyish charm to carry it ends up hurting the film in a way that becomes progressively more noticeable as it goes on and more characters are introduced. This might not be such a glaring issue if Nathan and Sully’s brotherly camaraderie wasn’t meant to be Uncharted’s beating heart, and if the film had the wherewithal to at least try to make some of its supporting characters feel like people instead of walking, talking callbacks to the games.
Nathan, Chloe, and Sully debating about whether or not to split up.Columbia Pictures
By the time that Nathan and Sully set out on their mission to track down a lost treasure hidden by Magellan’s crew, there’s still plenty of Uncharted to get through, but because the film can’t commit to a focus or a tone, it continues to feel much longer than it actually is all throughout.
Uncharted doesn’t really want you to think about why Sully and other hunters like Chloe Frazer (Sophia Ali) and Jo Braddock (Tati Gabrielle) are only able to finally start getting leads once Nathan shows up even though they’ve all been hunting for this specific treasure for ages. The movie also doesn’t especially want you to notice the fact that none of the puzzle solving or clue hunting that Nathan himself does appear to be very difficult or clever. What Uncharted does want, though, is to give you the feeling of being whisked away to gorgeous, foreign locales, where no one takes much of an issue with folks showing up to hack away at valuable pieces of history.
The Uncharted franchise has its merits and isn’t just Tomb Raider for Men™, but that’s definitely the impression one could take away from this film for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, its apparent allergy to developing female characters beyond being quippy prizes for its male leads to lust after. Uncharted’s greatest sin, however, is the sureness with which it presents you with the potential for future installments — installments this movie’s ending neither earns nor warrants.
Uncharted also stars Antonio Banderas, Steven Waddington, and Pingi Moli and hits theaters on February 18th.
Fortnite fans have solved an Epic Games puzzle to reveal an Uncharted crossover coming to the game on February 17th. Tom Holland will star in Fortnite for a second time, thanks to a new skin in his portrayal as Nathan Drake in the upcoming Uncharted movie that hits theaters on February 18th. The original Nathan Drake character and Chloe Frazier will also be available in both movie and video game forms inside Fortnite.
Epic Games started teasing the collaboration late on Friday with a treasure hunt website, days after leakers spotted code inside Fortnite that pointed towards an “Uncharted treasure map.” Players had to solve a 14-character password, with some creators getting clues along the way. The password, sicparvismagna, was solved in a matter of minutes, leading to the Uncharted Fortnite crossover trailer.
The trailer only confirms the wearable outfits so far, but there will likely be additional cosmetics as part of this collaboration. Epic Games says the Uncharted items will appear in Fortnite’s item shop on February 17th, just ahead of the Uncharted movie release.
You know what kind of video game movie Uncharted will be. You know it in your heart. But just in case you don’t know that you know it, you can now watch PlayStation Pictures’ entire live-action recreation of the infamous scene from that one Uncharted video game where Nathan Drake gets dragged out of an airplane by a rope ladder consisting of gigantic pieces of cargo and somehow manages to survive, without any cuts or annoying plot to get in the way.
There is a lot of green screen. Lots of baddies go down. Very young actors appear to do acrobatic things. Action abounds, just as Sony promised it would in the company’s CES 2022 presentation this evening, where it also revealed it’s pivoting into electric cars.
I am now adequately prepared to watch this movie. Are you?
The USS Connecticut had been operating in the contested waterway when it struck the object on October 2, but it was unclear at the time what it had hit.
“The investigation determined USS CONNECTICUT grounded on an uncharted seamount while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region,” a 7th Fleet spokesperson told CNN in a statement. US 7th Fleet operates in the Western Pacific and Indian oceans.
Though the Seawolf-class submarine suffered some injuries to crew members and some damage, the Navy said the nuclear propulsion plant was not damaged in the accident. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
The command investigation for the USS Connecticut has been submitted to Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, the commander of 7th Fleet, for his review, according to the statement. Thomas will decide whether “follow-on actions, including accountability, are appropriate.”
USNI News was the first to report the findings of the investigation.
The collision came at a particularly sensitive time in US-China relations, as the Chinese military was sending waves of aircraft into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone. On the day of the crash, China flew 39 aircraft into the Air Defense Identification Zone. Two days later, China flew a record 56 aircraft into the zone in a 24-hour period.
Though the number of incursions ebbed for a short period, they have since begun again. On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said eight People’s Liberation Army aircraft entered the Air Defense Identification Zone, with another six flying in on Monday.
Meanwhile, the tensions between Washington and Beijing have increased. Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for Taiwan to have “meaningful participation” at the United Nations, calling Taiwan’s participation “not a political issue, but a pragmatic one.”
The statement drew an angry rebuke from Beijing, which views unification with the independently ruled island as one of its primary objectives and adamantly opposes Taipei’s participation in international forums.
“Should the US side choose to continue playing the ill-advised ‘Taiwan card,’ it would inevitably pose seismic risks to China-US relations, seriously undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, and gravely harm the interests of the US itself,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said a day after Blinken’s statement.
Zhao also said that Taipei’s current policy is “the greatest realistic threat to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
On Thursday, Taiwan’s defense minister openly acknowledged that US military personnel are training Taiwanese troops.
“The US military is only assisting in training (our troops), but they are not based here,” Chiu Kuo-cheng said, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency.
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