Sony are trying to expand the reach of PlayStation to more gamers (and non gamers), and it’s never been more obvious than this week. God Of War has been confirmed to come to PC (Steam) in early 2022, following the success of Horizon Zero Dawn’s own PC release. In parallel to this announcement, a trailer for the upcoming Uncharted movie (Featuring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg) has been released yesterday.

God of War and more PlayStation exclusive titles coming to PC

Sony announced yesterday that God Of War (2018) is coming to PC in January 2022, and can be preordered on Steam already. This is not the first Sony title to come to PC, with Horizon Zero Dawn and Days Gone having been launched on PC earlier. That’s not even counting a bunch of PlayStation exclusives that ultimately launched on PC, such as many quantic Dreams games, and Death Stranding.

Uncharted, legacy of Thieves collection (Uncharted 4 + The Lost Legacy) is also coming to PC early next year.

Some PlayStation fans are worried that this is going to dilute the PlayStation brand, but given how difficult it’s been to get a PS5 since its launch, and given the smashing success of titles such as Horizon Zero Dawn on PC, it doesn’t seem Sony would have a good reason to not launch their most successful titles on PC. They’ve stated multiple times though that these titles would always come on their consoles first. Seeing that God of War launched 3 years ago, in my opinion this is a good compromise.

And, to be honest, it also seems most PlayStation fans either don’t care, or embrace the fact that their favorite games will be enjoyed by more people.

Uncharted movie trailer released

In addition to the God of War announcement, Sony have released a trailer for the uncharted movie, coming next year (February 18th) to theaters.

The Uncharted franchise, which many of us love, is going to get more mainstream.

But the choice of Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland to play Sully and Nathan Drake respectively has raised eyebrows from Uncharted fans. Sully without a moustache, and Nathan Drake as a semi-weak youngling doesn’t seem to resonate with fans, but they’re both solid actors so we’ll see where they can take this.

There are also questions raised from the trailer, as it seems to show scenes that are directly taken from (or at least heavily inspired by) Uncharted 3 and Uncharted 4, while still being showcased as an “origins” kind of movie. Whether it will be canon with the Uncharted story (and maybe not tell us much we don’t already know from the games), or will just be an entertaining spinoff, remains to be seen.

In the meantime, you can re-watch this fanmade movie which stars Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake (yeah, we get it, we too would have loved a full-length Uncharted feature with him as Drake)

As far as video game movie adaptations are concerned, I’m personally much more excited by HBO’s upcoming “the last of us” series. I don’t care too much is the uncharted movie ends up bombing, but that Last of Us adaptation better be good!