Uncharted Fight for Fortune officially revealed for Vita - trailer

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Sony has officially announced Uncharted Fight for Fortune following the Vita game's outing by the Australian Classification Board earlier this month.

Chris Reese, co-director of Uncharted: Golden Abyss studio Bend Studio, which created Fight for Fortune with co-dev One Loop Games, describes the upcoming release as an action-adventure turn-based card game featuring the heroes and villains of the Uncharted universe.

Set for release on December 4 via the PlayStation Store for $4.99 in the US (Euro details to be confirmed), it's a standalone title which can also be linked up to Golden Abyss, with an upcoming patch for the Vita launch game enabling users to "power up the artefacts" they've collected for immediate use within Fight for Fortune.

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More Uncharted: Fight for Fortune Info Revealed, Campaign Length Will be 6-8 Hours

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Earlier this morning, Uncharted: Fight for Fortune was confirmed to be hitting the PlayStation Vita on December 4th for $4.99. We covered a lot of information in the original news piece and posted a trailer of the game, but Chris Reese, Co-Studio Director at Bend Studio, took to the comments section of the PS Blog to reveal even more about FFF.

Here’s a rundown of all the tidbits, in full bullet point glory:

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Uncharted 'fans' FUUUUURIOUS at card game spin-off

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Uncharted: Fight for Fortune was only officially revealed this morning, but already the "fanbase" is up in arms and inconsolable at the idea that a spin-off game would dare to actually spin off from something. THE VERY IDEA!

At the time of writing, the Youtube upload of the game's trailer has 67 Likes to 124 Dislikes (Update: 225 Likes/583 Dislikes), and comments of outrage are pouring in. Sony's been accused of destroying its product, and wasting time that could have been spent on a Golden Abyss sequel. You already know what we did. Yep, we put our special JOURNALISM hats on and culled the very best comments from the video, displayed below for your sexual pleasure. Enjoy!

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EGM Review: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

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Royale with cheese
There’s an elephant in the room, and its name is Super Smash Bros. No matter how hard I try, I can’t talk about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale without mentioning the fact that it’s a shameless knockoff of Nintendo’s beloved brawler. It’s so blatant, in fact, that I wouldn’t be surprised if there were high level design meetings where the team played Brawl together and had frank discussions about how much they could get away with stealing before the Big N’s lawyers came knocking down their door.

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