If you still have a PS3 that can download , don't install it for the fixes. Install it for the nostalgia of a blue loading bar and the sound of a jet engine fan kicking in.

And remember: Never trust a man who patches a grenade launcher on a Tuesday.

87MB. On a 2010 DSL connection, that’s a 45-minute prayer that nobody picks up the landline phone.

April 2010. The world was different. Nate’s desert shirt didn’t have a belt yet, and “planking” was a thing teenagers did for fun, not a survival tactic against Lazaravic.

You fire up your fat PlayStation 3. The orange light is glowing. You insert the Uncharted 2 disc—still warm from yesterday’s session on The Sanctuary . But instead of the main menu, a blue bar creeps across the screen.

Because it was the last "pure" patch. After this, Uncharted 3 introduced microtransactions. Uncharted 4 went to PS4. But 1.09? That was the moment the PS3 multiplayer peaked. It was broken, fixed, re-broken, and then lovingly abandoned.