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New gameplay footage and more Sony Interactive Entertainmenthas announcedthat it will be hosting a new “State of Play” broadcast tomorrow, entirely dedicated to Naughty Dog’s long-awaited sequelThe Last of Us Part II,which launches on PS4 in less than a month’s time. The 20-minute presentation will be headed up by Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, who will premiere new footage from the grim-looking adventure while offering further details on the sequel’s story and gameplay mechanics....

Explore what’s behind the mysterious door for yourself After setting theNieR: Automatafandom ablaze with amysterious door, modders have made it so you too can venture beyond. The mod behind theNieRchurch mystery is available to download right now. Back in July, a strange video caught on in theNieRcommunity. One player said they had found a weird door in the Copied City section ofNieR: Automata. What stemmed from there was a few days of feverish speculation and secret-hunting, up until the folksbehind it revealed all....

The backdrop of theMad Maxseries is probably more beautiful than a noxious wasteland has any right to be, but it’s still less interesting than the characters populating it. Even though they don’t tend to speak much, the ensemble driving both the vehicles and the plot of the series is responsible for some of the best worldbuilding in the history of cinema. Let’s honor the maddest of the bunch, shall we?...

Lend me your ears Publisher Sega, in association with developers Creative Assembly and Feral Interactive, has announced that a remastered edition of its game-changing strategy titleRome: Total Warwill launch on PC via Steam April 29, priced at around $30. First released back in 2004,Rome: Total Warwas the third entry in the best-selling Total War franchise, following the release ofShogun: Total Warin 2000 andMedieval: Total Warin 2002. Rome was the first entry in the strategy series to feature a fully 3D map as well as free, open-world movement, as players managed (or mismanaged) the rise of the Roman Republic....

Further indication an announcement is imminent Hot off the discovery of the website,thesurvivor2299, comes further proof that the fourth installment of Bethesda’sFalloutseries might be right around the corner. Surfacing on the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Markets’ (OHIM) website, the official trademark office of the European Union,is a registration forFallout 4by Bethesda Softworks LLC. The previously discovered teaser site beeps Morse code that corresponds to the sites countdown to December 11 — which written in European dating style would be11-12-13....

Distributor New Era isn’t going to appeal the decision The last two installments of the humorousTropicosimulation series made it to Thailand but this year’s game,Tropico 5, will not see release in the country — it’s been banned. Following a coup in May, Thailand’s government is currently under military control. The Board of Film and Video Censors toldTropico 5distributor New Era that “some contents of the game are not appropriate for the current situation,” but did not clarify which content was deemed inappropriate....

We didn’t anticipate demand I’m still miffed that Nintendo hasn’t released a demo version of their prototype forBreath of the Wild. Seeing that fromGDC this yearmakes me pine for it to be included in the otherwise paltry season pass for the game. One fan stepped up and managed to create a replica of that prototype, though. DubbedBreath of the NES, this fan madedemofeatures gameplay similar to the NES classic game will taking concepts from the newest iteration....

UDON Entertainment has packaged sunshine, happiness, and unicorns into a 192-page tome and wants to gift it to you, the adoring fans… for a price, of course. In late November,Marvel vs. Capcom: Official Complete Workswill be published. Retailing for $44.99 (currently $32.72 onAmazon), this book collects official art, sketches, bonuses, and more from not just theMvCfighting series but from every Marvel-Capcom collaboration dating all the way back to 1993’sThe Punisherarcade beat ’em up....

That raid sounds dope Blizzard took to Twitch this week to broadcast an update forWorld of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, and it’s a doozy. In the coming monthsBFAwill host update 8.1, the first major patch of the expansion. It’llcontinue the war campaign (Alliance vs. Horde ongoing bonus story), Incursions (reworked LegionAssaults), more raids (including the Siege of Zuldazar, with three bosses for each faction and three static bosses), the Battle for Darkshore Warfront, more island expeditions, heritage armor for legacy races (Blood Elves and Dwarves are confirmed), more general story interludes (including beats for Vol’jin’s history and an update on Saurfang), more world quests, a two-boss micro-raid, an Azerite (gear) system rework, a pet dungeon, new races (the already confirmed Kul Tirans and Zandalari trolls), and an account-wide achievement system for alts (a huge win for the community as this is been requested since the 2004 launch)....

Luffy has faced some seriously powerful opponents throughout hisOne Piecejourney. From pirate captains to world-threatening villains, he isn’t one to back down from a challenge, especially when his opponent is standing inthe way of his goal. Here’s a rundown of 10 of his most intense duels that had us on the edge of our seats. Bellamy’s defeat is probably the most satisfying This one might seem like a mismatch at first, but it’s a battle that really shows Luffy’s growth....

The Steam Guard fell asleep at its post You know Steam Guard? The thing that’s supposed to give your Steam account more protection by using two-step verification? Turns out that was part of amajorsecurity bug, which allowed hackers to take peoples accounts and change the passwords Fortunately it’s been patched now, but for roughly the past week people have simply been able to skip the Steam Guard verification bynot even entering a code....

Console problems Respawn has been making an effort to communicate changes forApex Legends, which includes a massbanning of “over 16,000 cheaters”and now, a patch to squash some bugs, mostly on consoles. The second major patch for the game, which is now live, deals with crash issues on PS4 and Xbox One, as well as general bugs for all platforms. On PS4 Respawn patched up GPU hangs and load crashes: I’ve had problems on PS4 specifically, so this is a good start....

Calling all bloggers! [LaTerrycalls upon Destructoid’s community of bloggers to answer the call in this month’s Band of Bloggers. Check out the details of July 2021’s topic below –Moyse] In April of 2008, a game was released on the DS calledThe World Ends With You. It was critically praised upon release but didn’t do insane numbers like other games released by the same company, Square Enix. Most important to this story, I bought it and adored it....