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Friday11th Aug 2023
News Bloodborne Just the Beginning! The Order: 1886 Gets Unofficial 60fps Patch on PS5
A sight for sore eyes
In collaboration with the established experts at Digital Foundry, Illusion, the "Master of Unlocking", has again succeeded in unleashing the framerate of a PS4 exclusive trapped on that platform, this time with The Order: 1886. Digital Foundry's video shows how the game's then-impressive tech holds up today and what it looks...
Monday24th Apr 2023
News The Order 1886's Dev Ripped Apart by Facebook Owner After Acquisition
Zuckerberg claims another
Ready at Dawn, the studio best known for The Order 1886 and Kratos' various PSP adventures like God of War: Ghost of Sparta and God of War: Chains of Olympus, has reportedly lost as much as a third of its headcount in the latest round of Meta layoffs. The Facebook parent company acquired RAD back in 2020 to assist with the...
Friday17th Jan 2020
Rumour The Order: 1886 Will Make a Triumphant Comeback with PS5 Sequel
Cor blimey
Ready at Dawn's The Order: 1886 was a graphical showcase on PlayStation 4, but ultimately fell flat with critics and some players. The developer moved onto other projects following the reception to this PS4 exclusive, but it clearly poured a huge amount of time and effort into what remains a visually impressive adventure. It would be nice...
Friday14th Jun 2019
E3 2019 Sony Thought Troy Baker Was in Too Many Games
Originally played Galahad in The Order: 1886
Sony’s been keeping Troy Baker in designer hair wax, as he’s starred in several of the platform holder’s biggest games: The Last of Us, inFAMOUS: Second Son, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Death Stranding, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us: Part II – and probably a dozen more that we’re...
Thursday21st Feb 2019
News Sony Gifts The Order: 1886 Developer a Replica Tesla Rifle from the Game
Zap
Here's a cool little story for your: Sony, specifically Sony Santa Monica, has gifted The Order: 1886 developer Ready At Dawn a replica Arc Rifle. The weapon, designed by Nikola Tesla, appears in the aforementioned game, and it's been faithfully recreated here, complete with an in-universe display case. Of course, this act of kindness from...
Tuesday9th May 2017
News The Order: 1886 Can Be Yours for Thruppence on PS4
Seriously, it's $3.99 in North America
Look, we have our fair share of issues with The Order: 1886, but for $3.99 it’s worth buying. Sony’s launched a new batch of discounts on the North American PlayStation Store, and Ready at Dawn’s story-driven Victorian shooter has brought its exquisitely groomed handlebar moustache along for the party...
Tuesday9th Jun 2015
News The Order: 1886 'Well on Way' to Meeting Sales Targets
According to Ready at Dawn, anyway
The promising potential, the secrecy surrounding its sales, the eventual split – The Order: 1886 really is Heavenly Sword for a new generation. While we all come to terms with the lengths that Sony will go in order to repurpose the previous generation, though, here's some corporate double-speak from new Ready at...
Monday8th Jun 2015
News The Order: 1886 Maker Is Planning a Multiplatform Future
Developer wants to build, own, and publish its own IPs in the future
The Order: 1886 was met with a mixed reception, and seeing as we haven't heard a whisper about its sales, we're guessing that it flopped at retail, too. It's not an enormous surprise, then, that developer Ready at Dawn now wants to release games on more than the PlayStation 4...
Wednesday20th May 2015
News The Order: 1886 Ain't Commanding Antique Prices on the PS4
Exclusive is Europe's latest Deal of the Week
Since an early age, this author has found the very idea of 'antiques' baffling. Call us common, but it strikes us that the industry simply peddles old tat under a more appealing name in order to make it seem more valuable; who wants a grotty old table when you can buy a brand new one alongside some...
Tuesday14th Apr 2015
News There Are No Todgers in the Japanese Version of The Order: 1886
Covered up
The Order: 1886 got a lot wrong, but we were able to respect its mature depiction of nudity to a degree. While certain games – God of War, for example – revel childishly in the odd bit of revealed flesh, Ready at Dawn's historical shooter just gets on with things, showing various parts of female and male anatomy when the context is...
Monday13th Apr 2015
News New PS4 Patch Gives The Order: 1886 a Glorious Photo Mode
Phwoar
Being such a good looking game to begin with, it only makes sense for The Order: 1886 to snag its very own photo mode. Teased ages ago, the mode will allow you to snap some glorious screenshots with the help of numerous photo-taking tools. Pausing the action at almost any time, you'll be able to pan around for the best angle and apply...
Saturday21st Mar 2015
News The Order: 1886 Won't Break the Bank if You Shop at Best Buy
PS4 exclusive's price slashed in the States
The Order: 1886 may play like a period piece at points – and definitely not in the way that developer Ready at Dawn intended – but it's a decent enough romp while it lasts, and looks nothing short of spectacular. You may be interested in picking it up at a discounted price, then – so it's a good...
Friday20th Feb 2015
News The Order: 1886's 256 Page Strategy Guide Is Pure Gold
Push square
We're not ones to kick a game when it's down – after all, we really like parts of Ready at Dawn's inaugural PlayStation 4 exclusive – but The Order: 1886 is probably the last title on the planet that needed a 256 page strategy guide. Still, that's exactly what Brady Games has produced, and it's already proving a hit in some hardcore...
Thursday19th Feb 2015
News What the Heck's Sackboy Doing in The Order: 1886?
LittleBigLondon
The Order: 1886 is a mostly quite solemn game, but developer Ready at Dawn does find the odd occasion to lighten the mood. Most of these moments come courtesy of lothario knight Lafayette, but we also appreciated this LittleBigPlanet Easter egg. It can be found in the title's third chapter, perched upon an otherwise quite ordinary...
News The Order: 1886 Has a Reasonably Sized Day One Patch
Old school
Are you sick of ginormous day one patches? Yeah, we are, too. Fortunately, forthcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 has plumped up with an update that's a little more manageable, and weighs in at just 30MB in size. The download was spotted by people pre-loading the digital copy, which is available now if you pre-ordered the...
Wednesday18th Feb 2015
News Ready at Dawn: Some People Will Love The Order: 1886, and Others Will Hate It
Blunt
We can't blame Ready at Dawn for starting to feel a little aggrieved at the frosty reception that The Order: 1886 has received, but in an interview with Italian YouTube channel Game's Princess – as translated by Worlds Factory – studio co-founder Andrea Pessino reckons that some of that may be due to the company's inability to communicate...
News Free The Order: 1886 PS4 Theme Takes Off in Europe
Scaling the London skyline
There are few better promotional tools than a free PlayStation 4 theme, and Sony has tapped into that by adding a complimentary animated The Order: 1886 wallpaper to the European PlayStation Store. Available to download now through here, the nifty extra allows you to skin your next-gen system with the airship infiltration...
News People Are Looking for a Reason to Hate PS4's The Order: 1886, Says Ready at Dawn
Shake it off
The Order: 1886 has certainly had its pre-release problems, but we must admit that we've never seen quite so much vitriol pointed at an unreleased product before. Game director Dana Jan, in an interview with Develop, seems utterly fed up with the constant criticisms, describing the circus that's surrounding the PlayStation 4 exclusive...
Tuesday17th Feb 2015
News Pachter: PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Could Sell Up to 12 Million Copies
That's if Sony bundles it aggressively
The jury may still be out on PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886, but seasoned industry analyst Michael Pachter foresees a very lucrative future for the release. Chatting with Gaming Bolt, the Wedbush Securities employee suggested that it could sell five million copies by the end of the year – and may yet...
News These Are the Knights of PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886
Around the Round Table
One of the most important assets of PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 is its characters, and in this brand new behind-the-scenes video, developer Ready at Dawn discusses the cast and some of the design decisions behind them. It also delves into the motion capture process, so if you like watching actors rigged up in silly...
News The Order: 1886 Has More Gameplay Mechanics Than Any Single Game Usually Has
More under the moustache
There's no doubt that The Order: 1886 has received a bad rap for its cinematic focus, but there is quite a lot to the game. In addition to third-person shooting and interactive cut-scenes, recent trailers have shown that the title also includes climbing mechanics, exploration, and hand-to-hand combat. As such, there's a lot...
Monday16th Feb 2015
News We Need Different Types of Games, Says The Order: 1886 Developer
Studio comments on length
There have been a whole host of reports regarding The Order: 1886 over the weekend. A handful of stories claimed that the game could be finished in three hours, before a full YouTube upload pegged it at a slightly more reasonable five-and-a-half hours. Speaking with Eurogamer.net, creative director Ru Weerasuriya refused to...
Thursday12th Feb 2015
News Ready at Dawn: Concerns About PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Are Natural
"We took the risk of trying something different"
The jury's very much still out on The Order: 1886, and we're little over a week away from release. While developer Ready at Dawn has proven that it's capable of taking the PlayStation 4 to places that it's never been before – and it intends to go further yet in the future – there are still many...
News The Order: 1886 Is Just 'Touching the Surface' of the PS4's Power
Here we go
Well, we knew this kind of quote was coming sooner or later. In an interview with Game Trailers, creative director Ru Weerasuriya remarks on how The Order: 1886 is only just "touching the surface" of what the PlayStation 4 can do. The upcoming exclusive looks visually stunning -- that much we know -- but to think that Sony's newest...
Wednesday11th Feb 2015
News PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Is Packed Up and Ready to Go
Time to make history
There's no turning back now. Three weeks after going gold, The Order: 1886 now finds itself packaged up and sitting in shop storerooms. One sneaky Reddit user got a snap of their local outlet's stash, which they posted online for everyone to ogle. There are already copies of this out in the wild, as leaked videos are starting to...
Tuesday10th Feb 2015
News Phwoar, Feast Your Eyes on These The Order: 1886 Spoiler-Free Screenshots Direct from PS4
The PS4's finest?
At this point, we've known for a while that The Order: 1886 looks amazingly good, and now Sony's gone ahead and released a bunch of screenshots to prove it. Apparently captured directly from a PlayStation 4, the exclusive has us rubbing our faces up and down the screen in sheer anticipation. We reckon it's the detail that really...
Saturday7th Feb 2015
News Spoil the Start of PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 with This Clip
Holy textures, Galahad
The Order: 1886 is finished, and copies are starting to pop up around the globe. That means that videos from the finished version are already starting to leak – despite it being some two weeks away from release. The clip embedded below is one such example, showing the opening scenes from the PlayStation 4 foray. It's all in...
Thursday5th Feb 2015
News How Does The Order: 1886 Look So Darn Good on the PS4?
Alive and kicking
There have been some great looking games on the PlayStation 4 so far, but we can probably all agree that The Order: 1886 is a step ahead of anything else. Ready at Dawn's forthcoming alternate history affair looks absolutely breathtaking – and in this brand new behind-the-scenes video, the team's various visual leads discuss the...
Tuesday3rd Feb 2015
News Take Cover from The Order: 1886's PS4 Collector's Edition
Under fire
We can't seem to move without hearing the approaching hooves of another piece of The Order: 1886 news. This is a good thing, of course, as Sony's finally decided to pull its finger out and give the PlayStation 4 exclusive the kind of marketing push that it deserves. This evening's snippet comprises a Collector's Edition unboxing clip,...
News The Order: 1886 Is Surely the Most Bizarrely Marketed PS4 Exclusive Yet
Acceptable in the eighties
Well, it just gets weirder. During the run up to release, The Order: 1886 has had us scratching our heads a handful of times – but this hair metal take on the PlayStation 4 exclusive is probably the most bonkers marketing move yet. It's been created by YouTube channel Corridor Digital – presumably in partnership with...
