ing PlayStation Plus and the Xbox Game has increased the player base of two games by an incredible 3,000%. Both services offer a rotating selection of games every month, providing a mix of new and popular games as well as older and lesser-known titles. Two games, in particular, have seen an incredible boost in players since showing up on the two popular monthly subscription services. n6w5y

With 2022's Uncharted movie bringing the game franchise to the big screen, there's another series from the same studio that would work really well if also adapted into a motion picture. Led by Tom Holland as Nathan "Nate" Drake, the Uncharted cast helped the movie become a box office smash, despite the drastic changes made to the source material. It may not have been one of the best video game movies of all time, but it was certainly profitable. Not only that, but its success has made Uncharted 2 an inevitability.

Crash, Coco, Cortex, and the rest of the crew are back with Crash Team Rumble, a competitive multiplayer platformer. Developer Toys for Bob revitalized a beloved series with the Spyro Reignited Trilogy remasters before creating Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time in 2020 with rewarding platforming and charming humor - aspects that are unfortunately missing in Crash Team Rumble.

The world's most famous bandicoot returns with Crash Team Rumble, a multiplayer game that's closed beta showcased competitive collecting and a lot of the series' characteristic charm. Developer Toys for Bob is trying something new with Crash and the series wacky cast with an entirely new 4v4 multiplayer brawler, and for the most part, it's an exciting start.

Crash Team Rumble brings the franchise known best for platforming into a new, fast-paced multiplayer setting. The game is another collaboration between developer Toys For Bob and publisher Activision, which have previously worked together on projects like Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time and Spyro Reignited Trilogy. Screen Rant attended a hands-off preview presentation led by two Toys For Bob developers, Associate Creative Director Lou Studdert and Creative Director Dan Neil, to learn more about Crash Team Rumble.

The PlayStation Plus Collection of games will be leaving the subscription service in just a few months, and there are 10 titles players should make sure they before it's too late. This selection of PS4 games has been available for PS5 owners who subscribe to the PS Plus service as a showcase of the last generation console's best offerings, many of which could be played with increased performance on the newer device. While players will still have access to the other monthly game offerings that come with the subscription, the PS Plus Collection will disappear on May 9.

The competitive Crash Bandicoot multiplayer game Crash Team Rumblewas recently announced at The Game Awards 2022, and the 4v4 team-based brawler may prove to be a terrible direction for the series. While Naughty Dog's first Crash gamewas a fast-paced cartoonish platformer, the franchise has since expanded into the racing and party genres. Now Crash Team Rumble will let Crash and his friends fight for hordes of Wumpa fruit, but the title might be straying too far from the series' roots.

Some content creators are receiving mysterious pizza boxes filled with Crash Bandicoot goodies and a date teasing a possible announcement for the same day as this year's Game Awards. At one point, Crash was considered the Sony PlayStation's mascot and helped put The Last of Us 2 and Uncharted developer Naughty Dog on the map. Some developers attempted to keep the Crash IP alive but failed to capture the classic trilogy's charm. Unfortunately, this led the platform-jumping and crate-smashing bandicoot to take a long hiatus from the gaming world.

Sonic the Hedgehogis currently experiencing a resurgence in popularity thanks to his two financially and critically successful theatrical films. Video game history has given players any number of anthropomorphized animal icons to control as they seek to (typically) save their family or loved ones while simultaneously collecting any number of rings or jewels or gems or tokens. Sometimes they're pretty standard species most players are used to seeing, provided they live in the animal's preferred environment.

After Sony recently acquired Savage Game Studios (via ANI News), it looks like they might be moving into the mobile market in a big way. But with this news, the possibility to see some classic PlayStation games becoming portable experiences on smartphones might become true.