A Minecraft mad scientist has recreated The Legend of Zelda inside the blocky sandbox game without any third-party mods or resource packs. Fan and YouTuber C1OUS3R, who has also made Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Bros. inside Minecraft, took nearly a month to craft the Zelda tribute. The developer used command blocks, custom textures and other in-game features to recreate the 1986 NES classic. "I use Blockbench to create a flat version of Link from all sides so I can rotate it to make it look like he's facing every direction," C1OUS3R explained in a making-of video. "I would make a Voxel model like I did in the previous video games, however, it's pretty much unnoticeable and takes 30 times longer, and I don't really have the time for that. "I then overlaid this model over a carved pumpkin which is one of the items you can wear on your head in Minecraft.

The classic 2013 horror game The Last of Us is being remade for PlayStation 5 and PC, developer Naughty Dog has announced. Retitled The Last of Us: Part I, the new version will be released on 9 September on PS5 and later on PC. The Last of Us follows widower Joel and teenager Ellie across a ravaged US in the wake of a pandemic that has turned most of its population into zombies, and won acclaim for its unflinching devotion to storytelling as well as the performances of its cast. It was a landmark game of the PlayStation 3 generation, and was remastered for PlayStation 4 in 2014. Announcing the remake on a Summer Games Fest livestream, director Neil Druckmann explained that the character models and animation have been redone to bring them closer to the real-life performances of the game's stars, Troy Baker (Joel) and Ashley Johnson (Ellie).

Rockstar Games is remastering all three games to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original release of "Grand Theft Auto III," set in a fictionalized, crime-riddled version of New York City. "Vice City" and "San Andreas" are the two subsequent entries in the franchise, placing players in versions of Miami and Los Angeles, that iterate off the freewheeling, "anything goes" life of crime and vice.

There are certain series where the question "Which one's the best?" is difficult to answer. Ask someone what their favorite Civilization is for instance and you're bound to start an argument. The same goes for Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Fallout, Smash Bros., Mortal Kombat, Tony Hawk, Assassin's Creed, Street Fighter, Elder Scrolls, and so on and so forth. People by and large consider Age of Empires II to be the pinnacle of the series. Oh you might find a few holdouts for the original, or for Age of Empires III, but the second game is the runaway fan favorite--as evidenced by the fact Microsoft remastered it back in 2013, before the original.