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.

Disneyland's Avengers Campus will finally be opened on June 4, 2021, at Disney California Adventure. This immersive new area will be themed around all things Avengers and Marvel, with several locations hosted by a different Avenger and their unique theme, power, and technology. There will be areas focusing on Spider-Man, Ant-Man, and Doctor Strange, as well as the opportunity to encounter Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Black Widow, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, and Loki. Disney originally planned to open the Avengers Campus in 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic closed most parks across the country. However, that's set to change at the end of April when California relaxes its lockdown rules. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/08/avengers-campus-opening-date-announcement-trailer"] The Avengers Campus previously announced WEB Slingers, its first new ride centered around Spider-Man. Tom Holland will reprise his role as Peter Parker for the ride where attendees can strap on web bracelets and interact with this 3D attraction. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=disneyland-avengers-campus-new-images&captions=true"] Alongside the existing Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout ride, Disney also revealed a closer look at the ancient sanctum, where Doctor Strange will train recruits in the "mystic arts." This area will change at night when the mystic energy lights up the area in strange ways. As for food and beverages, an eatery has been set up at the Pym Test Kitchen with an Ant-Man theme. Food is oversized or mini depending on the item, and like Galaxy's Edge, Disney will introduce alcoholic beverages for adults. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. Image Credit: Disney

Disneyland's Avengers Campus will finally be opened on June 4, 2021, at Disney California Adventure. This immersive new area will be themed around all things Avengers and Marvel, with several locations hosted by a different Avenger and their unique theme, power, and technology. There will be areas focusing on Spider-Man, Ant-Man, and Doctor Strange, as well as the opportunity to encounter Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Black Widow, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, and Loki. Disney originally planned to open the Avengers Campus in 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic closed most parks across the country. However, that's set to change at the end of April when California relaxes its lockdown rules. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/08/avengers-campus-opening-date-announcement-trailer"] The Avengers Campus previously announced WEB Slingers, its first new ride centered around Spider-Man. Tom Holland will reprise his role as Peter Parker for the ride where attendees can strap on web bracelets and interact with this 3D attraction. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=disneyland-avengers-campus-new-images&captions=true"] Alongside the existing Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout ride, Disney also revealed a closer look at the ancient sanctum, where Doctor Strange will train recruits in the "mystic arts." This area will change at night when the mystic energy lights up the area in strange ways. As for food and beverages, an eatery has been set up at the Pym Test Kitchen with an Ant-Man theme. Food is oversized or mini depending on the item, and like Galaxy's Edge, Disney will introduce alcoholic beverages for adults. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt T.M. Kim is IGN's News Editor. Image Credit: Disney

Justice League writer Chris Terrio has offered new insight into how the early roadmap of the DCEU was established. According to Terrio, studio-mandated release dates, not story plans, dictated the release order of these DC movies. That's one of the big takeaways in Vanity Fair's new interview with Terrio, who also scripted Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before effectively being shut out of the DCEU during the Justice League reshoots. According to Terrio, there was little effort to coordinate story plans between movies like Justice League, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, only a mandate to "conform to this schedule." "[Kevin] Tsujihara, as far as I can tell, and the brass at the very top, decided the order of the films," Terrio told VF. "I was not consulted on the order of the films, even though I was the person writing Justice League. They just determined that it was going to be Batman/Superman, and then Wonder Woman, then Justice League, and then Aquaman. So there was never any thought to how the world was constructed before they issued this edict. They said, 'Conform to this schedule.'” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=justice-league-snyder-cut-all-the-known-differences-from-the-theatrical-version&captions=true"] Terrio explained how that caused creative headaches while writing Justice League, particularly given the fact that he didn't have access to a completed Wonder Woman script. "The Wonder Woman script wasn’t even finished when I wrote Justice League," Terrio said. "So I had no basis to write Wonder Woman other than Batman/Superman. Themyscira didn’t even exist. I was never shown anything on the page for it. I didn’t know whether people could talk underwater. That was a thing that I had to ask, because I didn’t know if I could do underwater scenes with Aquaman and Atlanteans. It was all just from scratch because there had been no [solo] character films." Terrio continued, "So Justice League needed to establish three of the characters; it had to create a long game mythology for the DC Universe. It had to resurrect Superman because he was dead at the end of the last movie. I just don’t know how you could do all that in under two hours. Maybe the 2017 release proved that you couldn’t." Terrio's comments certainly help explain some of the discrepancies between Zack Snyder's Justice League and Aquaman, including the drastically different appearance of Willem Dafoe's Vulko and the fact that Amber Heard's Mera has a British accent in The Snyder Cut. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/08/warner-bros-will-have-theatrical-exclusives-in-2022"] Terrio also spoke out about his dislike for the original ending of Batman v. Superman, which was abandoned when he was brought in by Ben Affleck to rewrite the script. This new interview comes right on the heels of another unflattering look behind the scenes at WarnerMedia. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ray Fisher accused Joss Whedon of threatening Gal Gadot's career and refusing criticism of his Justice League rewrites. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.

Justice League writer Chris Terrio has offered new insight into how the early roadmap of the DCEU was established. According to Terrio, studio-mandated release dates, not story plans, dictated the release order of these DC movies. That's one of the big takeaways in Vanity Fair's new interview with Terrio, who also scripted Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before effectively being shut out of the DCEU during the Justice League reshoots. According to Terrio, there was little effort to coordinate story plans between movies like Justice League, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, only a mandate to "conform to this schedule." "[Kevin] Tsujihara, as far as I can tell, and the brass at the very top, decided the order of the films," Terrio told VF. "I was not consulted on the order of the films, even though I was the person writing Justice League. They just determined that it was going to be Batman/Superman, and then Wonder Woman, then Justice League, and then Aquaman. So there was never any thought to how the world was constructed before they issued this edict. They said, 'Conform to this schedule.'” [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=justice-league-snyder-cut-all-the-known-differences-from-the-theatrical-version&captions=true"] Terrio explained how that caused creative headaches while writing Justice League, particularly given the fact that he didn't have access to a completed Wonder Woman script. "The Wonder Woman script wasn’t even finished when I wrote Justice League," Terrio said. "So I had no basis to write Wonder Woman other than Batman/Superman. Themyscira didn’t even exist. I was never shown anything on the page for it. I didn’t know whether people could talk underwater. That was a thing that I had to ask, because I didn’t know if I could do underwater scenes with Aquaman and Atlanteans. It was all just from scratch because there had been no [solo] character films." Terrio continued, "So Justice League needed to establish three of the characters; it had to create a long game mythology for the DC Universe. It had to resurrect Superman because he was dead at the end of the last movie. I just don’t know how you could do all that in under two hours. Maybe the 2017 release proved that you couldn’t." Terrio's comments certainly help explain some of the discrepancies between Zack Snyder's Justice League and Aquaman, including the drastically different appearance of Willem Dafoe's Vulko and the fact that Amber Heard's Mera has a British accent in The Snyder Cut. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2021/04/08/warner-bros-will-have-theatrical-exclusives-in-2022"] Terrio also spoke out about his dislike for the original ending of Batman v. Superman, which was abandoned when he was brought in by Ben Affleck to rewrite the script. This new interview comes right on the heels of another unflattering look behind the scenes at WarnerMedia. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ray Fisher accused Joss Whedon of threatening Gal Gadot's career and refusing criticism of his Justice League rewrites. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.