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Netflix has finally added Hunter x Hunter’s fourth season, aka the Greed Island Arc, for viewers in the States. 17-episodes long, the season can be watched in dub or sub. If you’re outside of the US, you most likely already have the Greed Island arc Netflix. The streaming service has executed a different rollout of Hunter x Hunter seasons for different regions. Some countries, including the US, only received seasons one to three, while other countries got more episodes.

The Greed Island Arc follows Gon and Killua as they get transported into a game no one has cleared before. They do it for the challenge (and the cheque, provided by a billionaire), but what transpires has a significant impact on Gon’s overall journey. Along the way, the duo finds a mentor, Biscuit–a middle-aged woman who masquerades as a young girl–and at one point, actually have to team up with Hisoka, an antagonist of sorts. While the infamous clown is present, two of the four main characters we started out with–Leorio and Kurapika–are almost entirely absent.

Beyond the Greed Island arc, Netflix still needs to add the Chimera Ant arc and the Election arc as well. And for those fans who have watched both and are wondering if there will be a new anime season in the near future, it’s looking unlikely. Yoshihiro Togashi, author of the manga, hasn’t released a new Hunter x Hunter chapter in over a year, making it hard for the anime to continue, given that there’s no material to adapt. A silver lining is that Togashi does want to finish and commented in an interview translated by VeraciousCake, “It has come to a point where either the story concludes first, or I die before that happens (lol). But I do intend to finish it.”

Netflix also added all the episodes for Akame Ga Kill, an anime released in 2014, and 48 episodes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders. The remake of Pokemon: The First Movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution, also made its debut on the streaming service on February 28.

A new Half-Life game is almost here. It’s been 13 years since Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and this month, anyone with PC VR platforms (Index, Rift, Vive, Quest with Oculus Link) will be able to play Half-Life: Alyx. In anticipation of its March 20 release date, developer Valve dropped three separate gameplay clips, which we’ve compiled into one for the video above.

Judging from the gameplay footage, Half-Life: Alyx looks like the unification of many VR mechanics and features we’ve seen up to this point in other games, but in one full 15-hour single-player campaign. Since the game takes place prior to the events of Half-Life 2, we’re getting a new perspective on the struggle and oppression that litters City 17. You take on the role of Alyx Vance, who has been an important character throughout the Half-Life 2 saga–her father Eli Vance, genius scientist and good friend of Gordon Freeman, looks to be a centerpiece for the story as well. The Combine are onto her, and with a VR setup, you’ll be in her shoes for this latest chapter in Half-Life’s iconic universe.

For more on this wildly anticipated VR game, you can read through our Half-Life: Alyx trailer breakdown to get a better idea of what to expect. We’ve rounded up everything you need to know about Half-Life: Alyx if you’re looking for pre-orders and info on how it works for VR.

The Seattle-based Emerald City Comic Con will proceed as planned, despite multiple confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the region. In the wake of the outbreak of the virus, organizers have cancelled or postponed several major gaming events, including San Francisco’s GDC, which prompted the statement.

The event is scheduled to take place from March 12 to 15. According to organizer ReedPOP, the team behind the event have “implemented enhanced cleaning and sanitation across the show, including adhering to the recommendations set forth in the US EPA’s Emerging Pathogen Policy.”

Coronavirus fears have the potential to severely disrupt events across the games industry, especially for important industry conventions like GDC and E3. So far, the 96 confirmed cases of the virus in the United States have been clustered on the West Coast, especially San Francisco and Seattle, two of the traditional hubs of the gaming industry.

Appearing at Chicago’s annual comic convention–C2E2–over the February 29 weekend, Mark Ruffalo revealed in a Q&A panel that there’s a chance he could make an appearance on the Disney+’s original She-Hulk. (He made no mention if Banner and Hulk will still be merged–which is what we really want to know.)

The She-Hulk series is slated for a 2020 production wrap and will be released exclusively on Disney+. The show is helmed by writer Jessica Gao, who wrote the famous Pickle Rick episode on Rick and Morty and has also contributed to Comedy Central’s Corporate and HBO’s Silicon Valley.

She-Hulk follows the story of Jessica Walters, who is Bruce Banner’s cousin. In the comics, Bruce saves her life with a blood transfusion, resulting in Walters getting a Hulk alter-ego of her own. Walters retains more of her personality and control while in Hulk form, in contrast to Banner’s more dramatic and unrestrained transformation. The She-Hulk TV series will apparently follow the comic material closely, but specific plot details at this point are scarce.

Additionally at the Q&A, Ruffalo also stated that he’s still in talks to play the father in HBO’s Parasite TV series, which was revealed in early February. Bong Joon Ho is set to the direct the TV show, along with Adam McKay. Details for how the HBO show will differ from the original movie are still unknown at this time.

There’s more than a year to wait for Tom Cruise to return for his best known action role, Ethan Hunt, in the next Mission Impossible movie–which recently halted production because of the coronavirus outbreak. But in the meantime, the star is set to reprise the character that helped make him a superstar–Top Gun’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Top Gun: Maverick arrives this summer, and it has now been announced that we’ll get to see it earlier than planned.

Admittedly, the movie isn’t coming to theaters that much earlier, but it will release two days ahead of its previous date. Top Gun: Maverick now arrives on Wednesday, June 24 instead of Friday, June 26. As Deadline notes, this follows Paramount’s traditional pattern of releasing big action movies on Wednesdays–previous examples include the Transformers series and an earlier Cruise movie, War of the Worlds.

Top Gun: Maverick also stars Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, and Ed Harris. It’s directed by Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise in 2014’s Oblivion. The spectacular second full trailer was released in December, while the first promo arrived at San Diego Comic-Con last summer. There was also this shorter teaser revealed during January’s Super Bowl.

Kosinski has previously spoken about how the film will deal with the realities of combat and the military in an age of drones and advanced technology. “It’s just a different world now, so you can’t remake the first movie. It has to adapt,” he said. “The Navy is very different now than it was in 1986. Back then, they hadn’t been in any war for 15 or 20 years at that point. Now, the Navy’s been at war for 20 years.”

For more, check out GameSpot’s guide to the biggest upcoming movies of 2020.

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As WWE starts to approach Tampa, Florida for Wrestlemania 36, the wrestling company’s biggest show of the year, something even scarier than Brock Lesnar is hovering over it. And that’s the worldwide spread of COVID-19, more commonly known as the coronavirus.

The possibility of the coronavirus being a huge presence in Tampa is a very real invasion angle here. With wrestling fans coming in across the globe for a week of festivities and wrestling shows, there is growing concern about the spread of the disease. However, Tampa Bay Times reports that WWE’s Vice President of Special Events, John Saboor, isn’t worried about canceling just yet.

“Given the number of live events that (WWE) does, it’s constantly monitoring global events,” said Saboor. “There are active and ongoing discussions at play internally, like there are in any sector of American business, and certainly families as a whole. So I think those will continue.”

Several WWE officials were on site in Tampa for a meeting with city leaders at Raymond James Stadium where they laid out their plan for the weekend, which includes a 5K and block party.

Last year, it was estimated that 150,000 wrestling fans attended WWE events from Monday Night Raw, to NXT Takeover, to Wrestlemania itself. However for Wrestlemania weekend, it’s a Mecca for wrestling fans from all over the world to attend, but with more and more cases of the coronavirus being announced, including two confirmed cases in the bay area as of Monday, WWE and Tampa have to be ready for anything.

Rob Higgins, executive director of the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, said his group is working alongside both Hillsborough County Aviation Authority as well as Tampa International Airport to ensure fan safety for the coming weeks before the show.

“You’ve got to be nimble, and you’ve got to be ready,” Higgins explained. “I think we just continue to information-gather as much as possible, so that we are as prepared as possible.”

“And if necessary, enact those measures,” WWE CBO Stephanie McMahon added.

The final Wrestlemania main event card is getting underway with Roman Reigns taking on WCW icon and WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg for his newly-won Universal Championship. Additionally, Drew McIntyre is finally getting his title shot against WWE Champion Brock Lesnar.

Wrestlemania airs live, Sunday, April 5 in Tampa. Come back to GameSpot on that day for live coverage and a review of the show.