Hello Games' The Last Campfire has received a surprise update. The studio has said that while The Last Campfire "isn't a live service game like No Man's Sky," the team wanted to implement some larger features so they could "move on from this game they care so much about." Hello Games has added 20% more puzzles to the game, as well as the ability to replay any puzzle at any time. This arrives alongside a host of performance improvements, controller and Mac support, a higher framerate cap and several quality-of-life improvements. A lot of the features added had been requested by fans. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/17/the-last-campfire-official-trailer"] Developed by a 3-person team within the studio, The Last Campfire launched in August of 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Nintendo Switch. The studio says that they've been pleased with the response to the game, noting that "over 80%" of the game's players get the platinum reward for solving every side puzzle and helping every forlorn. We reviewed The Last Campfire, scoring it a 9 and calling it "a beautifully told tale." It was reported back in September of 2020 that Hello Games is working on a "huge, ambitious" new game. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Hello Games' The Last Campfire has received a surprise update. The studio has said that while The Last Campfire "isn't a live service game like No Man's Sky," the team wanted to implement some larger features so they could "move on from this game they care so much about." Hello Games has added 20% more puzzles to the game, as well as the ability to replay any puzzle at any time. This arrives alongside a host of performance improvements, controller and Mac support, a higher framerate cap and several quality-of-life improvements. A lot of the features added had been requested by fans. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/17/the-last-campfire-official-trailer"] Developed by a 3-person team within the studio, The Last Campfire launched in August of 2020 on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS and Nintendo Switch. The studio says that they've been pleased with the response to the game, noting that "over 80%" of the game's players get the platinum reward for solving every side puzzle and helping every forlorn. We reviewed The Last Campfire, scoring it a 9 and calling it "a beautifully told tale." It was reported back in September of 2020 that Hello Games is working on a "huge, ambitious" new game. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Sony studios are reportedly working on a remake of The Last of Us, while Sony Bend begins work on a new game after an unsuccessful 2019 pitch to make Days Gone 2. In a new Bloomberg report into dissatisfaction among Sony's lesser-known studios, sources say that a Last of Us remake codenamed T1X was started by Michael Mumbauer, the founder of Visual Arts Service Group (a Sony developer that traditionally assists development on PlayStation Studios' games). Mumbauer apparently assembled a new, 30-strong development group and – after passing on the idea of a remake of the first Uncharted game – settled on a remake of 2013's The Last of Us. However, the team reportedly ran into trouble after Sony kept their existence a secret, and refused to offer extra budget. Head of PlayStation Studios Herman Hulst apparently deemed the project too expensive, and Mumbauer's team was moved to support development of The Last of Us 2. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/neil-druckmann-reacts-to-the-last-of-us-2s-best-playstation-game-of-the-year-win"] Bloomberg's sources say that, after The Last of Us 2 was completed, Sony moved multiple Naughty Dog developers onto the T1X project, and the remake effectively became a Naughty Dog project. Mumbauer and other original developers have now left the company, but development on the remake is apparently continuing. As part of the same report, Bloomberg also says that Sony Bend pitched a sequel to Days Gone after the game's release in 2019, but was rejected. Sony then apparently moved Bend developers onto two Naughty Dog projects – a multiplayer game (presumably the standalone Last of Us multiplayer game) and a new Uncharted project (which has also been rumoured recently). Some Bend staff reportedly left as a result of having their autonomy taken away, and leadership allegedly complained to Sony and asked to be moved off of Uncharted development. Sony Bend is now apparently working on a new original game, but it's not clear if this is Days Gone 2, a brand new game, or a return to another back-catalogue game. Update: Eurogamer reports that its sources claim a Sony Bend-developed Uncharted game was planned to be a new chapter for the series, possibly a prequel, and was intended as something of a reboot for the series. It's unclear if those plans have persisted with Bend off of the project. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-will-cover-the-first-game"] There had been many rumours about a new Sony team in San Diego, led by Mumbauer, with many assuming that it was working on a new Uncharted game after it said it was developing in an "existing franchise". However, it seems that referred to The Last of Us, with Uncharted's future seemingly remaining under Naughty Dog's control. The timing for a remake of The Last of Us feels appropriate given the upcoming HBO series, which will reimagine the story of the first game, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in lead roles. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Sony studios are reportedly working on a remake of The Last of Us, while Sony Bend begins work on a new game after an unsuccessful 2019 pitch to make Days Gone 2. In a new Bloomberg report into dissatisfaction among Sony's lesser-known studios, sources say that a Last of Us remake codenamed T1X was started by Michael Mumbauer, the founder of Visual Arts Service Group (a Sony developer that traditionally assists development on PlayStation Studios' games). Mumbauer apparently assembled a new, 30-strong development group and – after passing on the idea of a remake of the first Uncharted game – settled on a remake of 2013's The Last of Us. However, the team reportedly ran into trouble after Sony kept their existence a secret, and refused to offer extra budget. Head of PlayStation Studios Herman Hulst apparently deemed the project too expensive, and Mumbauer's team was moved to support development of The Last of Us 2. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/neil-druckmann-reacts-to-the-last-of-us-2s-best-playstation-game-of-the-year-win"] Bloomberg's sources say that, after The Last of Us 2 was completed, Sony moved multiple Naughty Dog developers onto the T1X project, and the remake effectively became a Naughty Dog project. Mumbauer and other original developers have now left the company, but development on the remake is apparently continuing. As part of the same report, Bloomberg also says that Sony Bend pitched a sequel to Days Gone after the game's release in 2019, but was rejected. Sony then apparently moved Bend developers onto two Naughty Dog projects – a multiplayer game (presumably the standalone Last of Us multiplayer game) and a new Uncharted project (which has also been rumoured recently). Some Bend staff reportedly left as a result of having their autonomy taken away, and leadership allegedly complained to Sony and asked to be moved off of Uncharted development. Sony Bend is now apparently working on a new original game, but it's not clear if this is Days Gone 2, a brand new game, or a return to another back-catalogue game. Update: Eurogamer reports that its sources claim a Sony Bend-developed Uncharted game was planned to be a new chapter for the series, possibly a prequel, and was intended as something of a reboot for the series. It's unclear if those plans have persisted with Bend off of the project. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/the-last-of-us-hbo-series-will-cover-the-first-game"] There had been many rumours about a new Sony team in San Diego, led by Mumbauer, with many assuming that it was working on a new Uncharted game after it said it was developing in an "existing franchise". However, it seems that referred to The Last of Us, with Uncharted's future seemingly remaining under Naughty Dog's control. The timing for a remake of The Last of Us feels appropriate given the upcoming HBO series, which will reimagine the story of the first game, with Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in lead roles. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Neo: The World Ends With You will be released on July 27, and we've learned a whole host of gameplay details. A PlayStation Blog article provided the date, as well as a deep-dive into the story and gameplay. Neo: The World Ends With You is a sequel to Square Enix's 2007 Nintendo DS title The World Ends With You. Set in Shibuya ward in Tokyo, you play a character called Rindo, who is part of a street crew called The Wicked Twisters. Your job is to uncover "the mysteries behind the sinister Reapers' Game," a week-long competition to save your soul. As you proceed you'll take on other crews and deal with the Shibuya and Shinjuku Reapers in the process. A big part of the game will be scanning and fighting Noise, nefarious manifestations of negative emotions that appear throughout Shibuya. When Rindo scans for Noise they will also be able to see the thoughts of the everyday people of Shibuya. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/09/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-release-date-announcement-trailer"] Much like the first game, players will assign pins to their party members that change their attack mechanics in combat. In Neo, you'll be able to control multiple party members during battle, and each teammate will hold one of the 300 available pins, which can be activated to unleash a special attack. Pins and threads can be purchased from a variety of shops in Shibuya to upgrade a character's stats and abilities, and you'll have to figure out a good combination of pins and threads for your team to fit the way you like to play. The composer of the original game Takeharu Ishimoto is back for Neo, and so is the protagonist of the first game, Neku. A hooded Neku with a new outfit is revealed at the end of the latest trailer for the game. Players who preorder the game on the PlayStation Store will get access to a Legendary Threads Set that boosts stats in battle, as well as a special set of Avatars. Neo: The World Ends With You launches on July 27 later this year for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. It will also come to the Epic Games Store in Summer 2021. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=neo-the-world-ends-with-you-5-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Neo: The World Ends With You will be released on July 27, and we've learned a whole host of gameplay details. A PlayStation Blog article provided the date, as well as a deep-dive into the story and gameplay. Neo: The World Ends With You is a sequel to Square Enix's 2007 Nintendo DS title The World Ends With You. Set in Shibuya ward in Tokyo, you play a character called Rindo, who is part of a street crew called The Wicked Twisters. Your job is to uncover "the mysteries behind the sinister Reapers' Game," a week-long competition to save your soul. As you proceed you'll take on other crews and deal with the Shibuya and Shinjuku Reapers in the process. A big part of the game will be scanning and fighting Noise, nefarious manifestations of negative emotions that appear throughout Shibuya. When Rindo scans for Noise they will also be able to see the thoughts of the everyday people of Shibuya. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/09/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-release-date-announcement-trailer"] Much like the first game, players will assign pins to their party members that change their attack mechanics in combat. In Neo, you'll be able to control multiple party members during battle, and each teammate will hold one of the 300 available pins, which can be activated to unleash a special attack. Pins and threads can be purchased from a variety of shops in Shibuya to upgrade a character's stats and abilities, and you'll have to figure out a good combination of pins and threads for your team to fit the way you like to play. The composer of the original game Takeharu Ishimoto is back for Neo, and so is the protagonist of the first game, Neku. A hooded Neku with a new outfit is revealed at the end of the latest trailer for the game. Players who preorder the game on the PlayStation Store will get access to a Legendary Threads Set that boosts stats in battle, as well as a special set of Avatars. Neo: The World Ends With You launches on July 27 later this year for PS4 and Nintendo Switch. It will also come to the Epic Games Store in Summer 2021. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=neo-the-world-ends-with-you-5-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Get ready for more monster madness: Hotel Transylvania 4 has a new title and release date. Sony Pictures Animation has announced that the fourth installment of the Hotel Transylvania franchise will be officially titled Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, with fans invited to check in with the myriad of monsters on July 23, 2021. The new release date sets the movie two weeks earlier than planned after originally being moved from December 22, 2021, to August 6, 2021. Selena Gomez, who voices Mavis in the movie series, the vampire daughter of Adam Sandler's Dracula, will also serve as an executive producer this time around alongside franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky, Michelle Murdocca, and producer Alice Dewey Goldstone. Tartakovsky has penned the script for Transformania but has handed over directorial duties to Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=2021-movies-preview&captions=true"] The previous entry in the franchise, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, took a big bite out of the box office when it was released in 2018, grossing $528 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. It became the highest-grossing movie in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and even climbed the ranks to become Sony Pictures Animation's highest-grossing fully-animated movie worldwide. IGN's review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation commended director Genndy Tartakovsky for offering "a manic alternative to the relatively grounded, emotional storytelling of Pixar," though it was also noted that, with each new installment, "the audience is expected to be more invested with these characters, and the many artificial aspects of their world have simply become a distraction." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Get ready for more monster madness: Hotel Transylvania 4 has a new title and release date. Sony Pictures Animation has announced that the fourth installment of the Hotel Transylvania franchise will be officially titled Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, with fans invited to check in with the myriad of monsters on July 23, 2021. The new release date sets the movie two weeks earlier than planned after originally being moved from December 22, 2021, to August 6, 2021. Selena Gomez, who voices Mavis in the movie series, the vampire daughter of Adam Sandler's Dracula, will also serve as an executive producer this time around alongside franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky, Michelle Murdocca, and producer Alice Dewey Goldstone. Tartakovsky has penned the script for Transformania but has handed over directorial duties to Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=2021-movies-preview&captions=true"] The previous entry in the franchise, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, took a big bite out of the box office when it was released in 2018, grossing $528 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. It became the highest-grossing movie in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and even climbed the ranks to become Sony Pictures Animation's highest-grossing fully-animated movie worldwide. IGN's review of Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation commended director Genndy Tartakovsky for offering "a manic alternative to the relatively grounded, emotional storytelling of Pixar," though it was also noted that, with each new installment, "the audience is expected to be more invested with these characters, and the many artificial aspects of their world have simply become a distraction." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Marvel has opened an in-universe tourism website for Madripoor, which fans quickly noticed contained a number of Easter eggs referencing X-Men characters – those references have seemingly now been removed. Comicbook spotted the new Explore Madripoor website, which began appearing as banner adverts on other Marvel sites. Fans subsequently discovered that areas of that site could be unlocked using passwords, including one area that listed ships in Madripoor's Buccaneer Bay docks (which we saw in episode 3 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). When the site launched, those listings included ship names, some of which were direct references to characters from the X-Men, including Mystique (who appeared in Fox's X-Men movies), and Daken (Wolverine's son in the Marvel comics). Shang-Chi (who has his own film coming soon) and the sentient island Krakoa were also apparently mentioned. It seems those Easter eggs might have been a step too far as, at time of writing, those same listings no longer include ship names (and thus, any references outside of the show). While it's fun to imagine this is because Marvel has given too much away, it's probably more likely that these were meant simply as fun nods to other Marvel properties, and were removed to stop anyone getting the wrong idea. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-episode-3-review"] Madripoor – the near-lawless island nation of Marvel history – was introduced to the MCU in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier last week. While we may not see mutants in the MCU for some time, Madripoor has major connections with the X-Men comic books, and we described its onscreen introduction as a first step towards introducing them to the cinematic universe. Even with X-Men references scrubbed, the Madripoor site does contain other neat Easter eggs, including wanted posters for the show's main characters, phone and desktop wallpapers to find, and clips of CCTV footage giving a different angle on the show's action scenes. If you're interested in the show or the MCU, it's worth poking around. If you want to check out the site's hidden areas, you can access the Buccaneer Bay area by using the password 'powerbroker', and the Hightown Nightclub section using 'sharoncarter'. To see our thoughts on the episode where Madripoor was unveiled, check out our review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3. We’ve also got a lot of theories about the questions that episode 3 raises. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Marvel has opened an in-universe tourism website for Madripoor, which fans quickly noticed contained a number of Easter eggs referencing X-Men characters – those references have seemingly now been removed. Comicbook spotted the new Explore Madripoor website, which began appearing as banner adverts on other Marvel sites. Fans subsequently discovered that areas of that site could be unlocked using passwords, including one area that listed ships in Madripoor's Buccaneer Bay docks (which we saw in episode 3 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). When the site launched, those listings included ship names, some of which were direct references to characters from the X-Men, including Mystique (who appeared in Fox's X-Men movies), and Daken (Wolverine's son in the Marvel comics). Shang-Chi (who has his own film coming soon) and the sentient island Krakoa were also apparently mentioned. It seems those Easter eggs might have been a step too far as, at time of writing, those same listings no longer include ship names (and thus, any references outside of the show). While it's fun to imagine this is because Marvel has given too much away, it's probably more likely that these were meant simply as fun nods to other Marvel properties, and were removed to stop anyone getting the wrong idea. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/02/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-episode-3-review"] Madripoor – the near-lawless island nation of Marvel history – was introduced to the MCU in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier last week. While we may not see mutants in the MCU for some time, Madripoor has major connections with the X-Men comic books, and we described its onscreen introduction as a first step towards introducing them to the cinematic universe. Even with X-Men references scrubbed, the Madripoor site does contain other neat Easter eggs, including wanted posters for the show's main characters, phone and desktop wallpapers to find, and clips of CCTV footage giving a different angle on the show's action scenes. If you're interested in the show or the MCU, it's worth poking around. If you want to check out the site's hidden areas, you can access the Buccaneer Bay area by using the password 'powerbroker', and the Hightown Nightclub section using 'sharoncarter'. To see our thoughts on the episode where Madripoor was unveiled, check out our review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode 3. We’ve also got a lot of theories about the questions that episode 3 raises. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.