NEWS | Week beginning June 29th | Is P.T. back?, The Last of Us 2 confirmed? & Minecraft: Story Mode

Good evening guys, and welcome back to another news round-up for this week! Oh, and happy 4th July to all my American readers! Have a good day!
Now, let's get started!

First up, Is P.T. back? Well no, it isn't. However, a game very similar to P.T. is making the rounds though, and by the looks of things, it looks pretty good.

As reported back in April, if you so remember, Konami had completely cancelled Silent Hills and had removed the playable teaser for the game, P.T, from the Playstation Store. It now looks like some fans of P.T. have made a spiritual successor to P.T, named 'Allison Road'.

A snippet from the games' Steam Greenlight page states that:

Look familiar?

"You will take on the role of the unnamed protagonist who wakes up one day without any recollection of prior events.
Over the course of five nights It is your objective to uncover the whereabouts of your family, unravel the mysteries of the house, and face off against Lily and other dark entities that are nested deep within the house, while the clock is relentlessly ticking towards 3:00am."

The 14 minute game play demo shows the unnamed protagonist waking up in a house with no prior knowledge of how he got there. Then of course, things go from slightly creepy to VERY BAD, very quickly. Screaming occurs, darkness occurs, blood occurs. Everything you should expect from a typical horror game. However, it also appears that the environment is interactive, unlike P.T. The game play showed that the player could pick up and inspect objects, as well as equip and use them. It looks really cool, and maybe, just maybe, even better than P.T.
Oh, and it will also have VR support. That's just what you want when attempting to play a P.T-esque horror game...

Here's the 14 minute game play if you haven't already seen it:



Next up, someone may have accidentally confirmed The Last of Us 2. Nolan North, a Naughty Dog collaborator, has confirmed that The Last of Us 2 is being made. North, the voice actor for Drake, in the Uncharted series and villain David in The Last of Us, stated at a Metrocon 2015 panel that "The Last of Us 2 is being made". After being questioned during the panel, he may have leaked that a new Last of Us game is being made, as well as a new Star Wars game that isn't Battlefront.

Will we be seeing more of Joel
and Ellie?

This is exciting news for The Last of Us fans. For those of you who have played the first game, who'll know how great the game is. The narrative, graphics, characters, etc all made the game a real experience, and now that one of the collaborators from Naughty Dog has confirmed (?) that the game is in the works, how can you not get excited?!

However, the main actor from The Last of Us, Troy Baker, has added a little twist to the story. He stated that he knows nothing about a sequel to the game, and trusts "everyone at Naughty Dog to tell a story that needs to be told".

So what does this mean? Has North accidentally spilled the beans on a new Last of Us and Naughty Dog have sent out Baker to cover up, or is North making stuff up? Only time will tell.


Finally, Minecraft: Story Mode has been officially revealed today! (4th July).
Minecraft: Story Mode is to be developed by Telltale, who has made similar episodic content such as
The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, and more recently, Tales from the Borderlands.

CRREEPPPPaaaawww

The game will create new lore for Minecraft, introducing new characters into the Minecraft universe. Telltale said on their blog that:

"You'll control protagonist Jesse throughout the season, as portrayed by actor Patton Oswalt. Jesse and his group of friends revere the legendary Order of the Stone; four adventurers who slayed an Ender Dragon. The Order are the very best at what they do: Warrior, Redstone Engineer, Griefer, and Architect. While at EnderCon, Jesse and his friends discover that something is wrong... something dreadful. Terror is unleashed, and they must set out on a journey to find The Order of the Stone if they are to save their world from oblivion."

So it sounds like there will be four different playable characters that each have a unique set of skills, that, in some way, will help you progress on the journey to find the 'Order of the Stone'. It'll be an episodic series, meaning we could see a different character per episode or something along those lines.
All I am going to say at this point is that this is something new. Nothing has really every been added to Minecraft at all since it's release from Beta in 2011 (not including patches and updates). Therefore, it could be a hit, or it could be a miss.
Although no official release date has been revealed, we can probably expect the first episode to be released this year sometime.

Here is the official trailer if you haven't already seen it:

And that's it for this week folks! What did you think of this week's news? Does Allison Road look as good as P.T to you? Are you excited for The Last of Us 2, if it is in-fact real
? Will you be playing Minecraft: Story Mode when it's released? Let me know in the comments down below!

As always, thanks for reading!

Connor :)