Seven years ago, Cadence of Hyrule showed us a bold future for both Zelda and Nintendo. It's time to pick up where that game left off.

Whenever I write about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I'm going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It's hard to imagine that sentiment changing anytime soon after The New York Times reported that Meta mulled launching facial recognition […]

The Gray Area is now publishing twice a week on audio and video. Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts.  Tyler Austin Harper didn’t set out to become a culture warrior. He trained as a scholar. His PhD was in comparative literature. He has written widely about the history of […]

Nier: Automata launched in 2017, and now developer PlatinumGames has revealed that the game has sold 10 million copies. To celebrate this achievement, PlatinumGames and publisher Square Enix have released a commemorative video that includes a mysterious "To Be Continued" tease. 

Though Game Informer gave Nier: Automata a 7.75 back in 2017 – still a good review score – the game has taken on a life of its own post-launch, in part due to the game's many fascinating endings and fan reception to them, conspiracy-laden discoveries, and more, including a remake of its predecessor, Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139 (giving Kingdom Hearts a run for its money with that title, PlatinumGames), and a kinda-sequel in the form of the mobile game Nier Reincarnation. Now, it's time for fans to get back to theorycrafting once more as the commemorative video, which you can watch here, ends with the screen below: 

Does this mean the studio is developing a sequel to Nier: Automata? Does it mean more concerts? More merch? Another mobile game? An Octopath Traveler 0-style remake of the now-defunct mobile-only Nier Reincarnation? Your guess is as good as mine, and if you know PlatinumGames, there's a good chance you won't guess correctly.

For now, that screenshot above is all we have to go on, so here's hoping the studio doesn't keep its audience in the dark for too long. 

In the meantime, read Game Informer's reviews for Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139 and Nier: Automata, and then read about why we love Nier Reincarnation so much. 

What do you think this Nier: Automata tease means? Let us know in the comments below!

Tesla has announced a new all-wheel drive Cybertruck that starts at $59,990, the cheapest the controversial truck has been sold for yet - though still well above the $40,000 price tag Elon Musk had initially promised. It's been joined by a $15,000 price cut for the high-end Cyberbeast variant, as Tesla doubles down on its […]