It's time to shut the door on the least memorable shooter franchise of the previous generation. Online services for Resistance: Fall of Man and its two sequels will cease functioning on April 8. Surely someone out there is sad?

Resistance started out as a Halo clone. It was to be Sony's answer to Microsoft, the PlayStation's own sci-fi shooter and killer app. It was to sell millions and earn its own base of rabid fans.

Resistance 3's boat level. Talk about badly-designed encounters. True, it's the first time you really get to crank out the game's shotgun, but on the hardest difficulty, running around that tiny excuse for a seaworthy vessel practically eating the contents of the ammo chest and wall-mounted health pack on a second-by-second basis made it the most frustrating fights for me. So you can imagine I'm not that psyched to check out the supposed April Fools' Day content hidden there.

Starting today, you'll be able to rampage your way through one of the PS3's best first-person shooters with a friend as Resistance 3 adds the all-new Brutality DLC pack. The add-on introduces a co-operative mode where two players face down wave after wave of Chimera aliens.

A November 11 breach of Resistance's official web site, including its forums, did not serve malware to visitors as some had alleged, Sony told Kotaku on Friday. Sony confirmed that an intrusion did take place, resulting in MyResistance.net's immediate closure. The site remains offline as Sony works to rebuild it and close whatever hole the attackers exploited.

After the flawed Resistance 2, a game that drained the joy from the PlayStation 3's once very promising shooter series, Insomniac Games comes closer to hitting its target with its third game set amongst the human-Chimera war. All it took to get Resistance 3 back on track was a bullet in the head.

In a room at Insomniac Games, Jon Paquette has taken over a wall. The writer of Resistance 3 has covered the surface in sticky notes: one colour to indicate what happens where, another colour highlighting the major beats of the game, and another pinpointing precisely what he wants the player to feel at each point.

If you're playing Resistance 3, you've likely come in contact with the digital recreation of two Resistance super-fans, the winners of the "Get in the Game" contest. In fact, they're some of the first people you'll meet. So see where that impressive in-game beard originates.

The invasion is over, the Chimera have won, and the end of humanity is nigh. But wait? What's that cresting the horizon? Why it's the Resistance 3 Frankenreview.

We would never call master filmmaker Freddie Wong a sell-out. But, the use of the SharpShooter and the Resistance 3 setting (with animations by Insomniac Games), right as both are part of a big ad campaign, does make it seem this was, well, commissioned.

Resistance 3's writer, Jon Paquette, is coming to Australia next week, and while Kotaku will be interviewing him in person when he lands on our shores (we've bought him a leg of ham as a welcoming gift), Jon will also be taking questions from the Kotaku community!

Insomniac Games' PlayStation 3 shooter Resistance 3 has some of the best, some of the classiest box art of the year, thanks to beloved British graphic designer Olly Moss. Better still? You won't have a visually wade through a sea of logos to enjoy Moss' work.

Insomniac Games made Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance 2 and Resistance 3. What about Resistance 4?

The first trailer I ever saw for Resistance 3 was live-action. The most recent one I've seen is all stylish artwork inspired by the designs of artist Olly Moss. I usually like to see gameplay in video game trailers, but I'll make exceptions for trailers this cool.

Apparently unwilling to give up the older PSP platform despite launching the PS Vita successor next year, Sony has just announced a new regular PSP that doesn't use discs.

We've just gotten word that the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive Resistance 3 will feature a multiplayer map, designed specifically for 16 players, set in Alice Springs!

At this year's E3 expo, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3's "official 3D Display", a stereoscopic 3D package that packed in one monitor, one copy of Insomniac Games' Resistance 3, one HDMI cable and one pair of 3D glasses for $US500. Things have changed.

The early access part of the beta for Sony's biggest exclusive first-person shooter of the holiday, Resistance 3, kicks off a week from today, on August 4. It will include two maps and two of the game's five multiplayer modes, according to the PlayStation Blog, which has details about how to get in it.

Insomniac Games has launched the beta for a web-based strategy game called Global Resistance, described as a "massive strategy game", featuring all players battling on the same global map in a game offering crossover features with the upcoming console title.