Steven Spielberg Apparently Won’t Play Uncharted Because He’s a Big PC Gamer and Only Likes Mouse and Keyboard | usagoldmines.com

Steven Spielberg’s love of video video games is well-documented. There are quite a few footage of him posing subsequent to basic arcade video games like Donkey Kong, Missile Command, and Space Invaders, and he is been concerned in varied video game-related initiatives through the years, together with directing the movie adaptation of Prepared Participant One.

However whereas many adults lose their ardour for gaming because the get older, Spielberg is seemingly nonetheless at it. There’s only one factor: he does not like controllers.

Stephen Spielberg with the Maneater arcade recreation in 1975. Photograph by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photos.

“He loves story video games and I am all the time making an attempt to get him to play Uncharted as a result of it is Indiana Jones and I am like, ‘Hey, you’d respect this.’ However he is like, ‘I am unable to do controllers. I can solely do keyboard and mouse,’” mentioned his son Max Spielberg, himself a recreation developer, in an interview with MinnMax.

His aversion is seemingly robust sufficient that when Spielberg’s son confirmed off his recreation, a co-op roguelite printed by Dreamhaven, he needed to be the one demo it as a result of his father would not choose up the controller. Hey, at the least Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves has mouse and keyboard help on Steam, proper?

In any occasion, Max says that gaming is a giant level of bonding between the 2. “He loves gaming. He is the one who acquired me into it. He performs video games. He is a giant PC gamer. In order that’s form of our bonding level as properly. He is like, ‘Hey, what’s good? What Name of Responsibility ought to I be enjoying? Ship me a listing of the highest 5 shooters and I am going to get them downloaded, then we will play them collectively if you come over to the home.”

He provides, “It is all the time a Name of Responsibility. He loves Name of Responsibility. He performs the story marketing campaign.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Max shares some extra tales about Steven Spielberg’s connections with the video games business, together with the time he acquired a Wii Sports activities demo from Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto. Steven Spielberg, for his half, is tough at work on his subsequent film, which is alleged to be about UFOs and is because of launch in 2026.

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