Nier Automata

NieR: Automata Gets Charming Devola & Popola Bring Arts Figures from Square Enix

17 Jun 2019

Considering the success of NieR: Automata, it's not surprising that Square Enix is continuing to release related merchandise and figures.

Official Chocolate 2P and 2B Variant NieR: Automata Figures Announced

30 Jan 2019

This is Niche Culture. In this column, we regularly cover anime, geek culture, and things related to video games. Please leave feedback and let us know if there’s something you want us to cover! Square Enix has announced something truly bold – an official figure based on NieR: Automata protagonist 2B. Featured above, the new figure, based […]The post Official Chocolate 2P and 2B Variant NieR: Automata Figures Announced appeared first on Niche Gamer.

Tiny, adorable NieR: Automata figurines available to pre-order

31 Jan 2018

Square Enix and Trading Arts have announced that they will release boxsets of mini figurines, based on characters from 2017's emo-smash NieR: Automata. The box-set features 10 randomly assorted figures from a collection of 11 characters, in...

Bayonetta And Nier: Automata Dev Platinum Games Discusses Its New Projects

03 Jan 2018

The company behind Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and the ill-fated Xbox One exclusive Scalebound says it wants to move into self-publishing.

Nier: Automata still needs a patch on PC, 8 months later

22 Nov 2017

I finished my first run through Nier: Automata this weekend, and it's one of the best games I've played this year. I love the physicality of it, the way character 2B pauses for a heartbeat and then lurches forward when I press the dash button. It's a perfect videogame movement. I love that the combat looks and feels satisfying, a whirlwind of intricately animated combos, swords appearing and disappearing like magic. It's more light show than fighting game, unlike Platinum's Bayonetta, but that doesn't matter. It looks amazing. I just wish that Nier: Automata on the PC wasn't still in need of a patch, eight months later.When Andy reviewed Nier: Automata back in March, he wrote "cutscenes are locked to 30fps, which make them look distractingly jerky. The mouse cursor kept appearing in the centre of my screen. And on one test machine running an AMD card, the game crashed to a white screen every ten minutes for seemingly no reason. A game this interestin

Preparations for the next Nier game are already underway

08 Nov 2017

Although Square Enix has yet to officially announce a sequel to Nier Automata, work is already underway. Producer Yosuke Saito told Ryokutya2089 (via…

A NieR: Automata Sequel Is Looking More and More Likely

07 Nov 2017

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'Nier: Automata' Sales Pass 2 Million, Could Become a 'Future Franchise' for Square

22 Sep 2017

Thanks to impressive sales numbers exceeding expectations, 'Nier: Automata' could become one of Square's next franchises, the company recently said

With one final death, Nier: Automata's ending redefines the meaning of life

31 Aug 2017

Games are often left unfinished. Sometimes they’re too difficult, too vast, or too repetitive to see all the way through to the closing credits. To The Bitter End is Gameological’s look at those endings that are worth fighting for—or at least worth reading about.

NieR: Automata May Very Well Have Saved Platinum Games

15 Aug 2017

2B's bubble butt cushions company to safety

Released 23 Feb 2017

Storyline

"The distant future… Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing a new type of threat: weapons known as “machine lifeforms.” In the face of this insurmountable threat, mankind is driven from Earth and takes refuge on the Moon. The Council of Humanity organizes a resistance of android soldiers in an effort to take back their planet. To break the deadlock, the Resistance deploys a new unit of android infantry: YoRHa . In the forsaken wasteland below, the war between the machines and the androids rages on. A war that is soon to unveil the long-forgotten truth of this world..." Nier: Automata shares the post-apocalyptic setting of the original Nier, taking place after the game's fourth ending. Characters such as Emil and minor characters from Nier will appear, while other characters from both Nier and Drakengard 3 are mentioned. Aside from this, the two games share no direct story connections. It will also retain the dark atmosphere and branching story paths common to the Drakengard series as a whole.