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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is almost here, and Marvel took the time at its San Diego Comic-Con panel to announce its post-launch plans for the game. That includes both an upcoming free update and the first details of the roster for its expansion pass.

First, Cyclops and Colossus will come to the game as a free update on August 30. Those two are both X-Men, but they aren’t the previously announced X-Men DLC pack. Instead, the first DLC pack will be Marvel Knights this fall, which will include Blade, Moon Knight, Punisher, and Morbius.

According to a slide shown at the panel, X-Men will come next, followed by Fantastic Four. Those two are planned for 2019 and 2020, respectively. The DLC is also said to contain additional story content and modes. Purchasing the full expansion pass for $20 also nets you an alternative-color chef Deadpool outfit. It’s also being sold as a bundle with the full game.

Comic-Con has plenty of Marvel panels coming up, so keep checking back for more news out of the show, true-believers.

At a San Diego Comic-Con panel, the cast and creators for Batman Beyond announced that a remastered version of the DC animated series will be out this October. Called Batman Beyond: The Complete Animated Series Limited Edition, the collection will launch digitally on October 15 and on physical Blu-ray on October 29. The first season will also be available for DC Universe subscribers starting August 23.

According to IGN, the collection is comprised of six discs, two of which contain bonus content–including a remastered version of the Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker movie and 15 featurettes about the series. Four of the series’ episodes will also include commentary from members of the production team. If you decide to buy the physical version of the collection, you’ll also receive a limited edition chrome painted Batman Beyond Funko Pop.

Batman Beyond is the direct sequel to Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, taking place at the end of DC’s animated universe and following up on numerous character storylines established in Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited. 52 episodes long, the series begins in 2019 with an elderly Bruce Wayne retiring as Batman before quickly fast-forwarding to 2039 and following the crime-fighting adventures of Terry McGinnis, a teenager who takes on the cowl.

Only 41 of the 52 episodes have been fully remastered, while the remaining 11 are only partially remade–as they’ve been too damaged over time. The 11 are “Eyewitness,” “Final Cut,” “The Last Resort,” “Armory,” “Sneak Peek,” “The Eggbaby,” “Zeta,” “Plague,” “April Moon,” “Sentries of the Lost Cosmos,” and “Speak No Evil.” For an idea of what a full remaster entails, IGN created a video that showcases a scene from the first episode side-by-side with its new counterpart.

The digital version of Batman Beyond: The Complete Animated Series Limited Edition will cost $50 USD / $60 SRP Canada. The Blu-ray version will set you back twice as much. UK and Australian prices have yet to be announced.

In a recent dev diary video, Bungie revealed that the Moon in Destiny 2 will be fairly different from the one that players remember from the original game. Though you’ll notice similar landmarks and structures, the Moon in the upcoming Destiny 2: Shadowkeep expansion will be roughly twice the size of the one you could explore in Destiny.

“In Shadowkeep, the Moon is entirely changed,” Destiny 2 art lead Mike Poe said. “It’s completely remastered. There have been a bunch of changes, both large and small, for players to experience and find.” Destiny 2 design lead Ben Wommack added, “We have about double the amount of space. There’s more than twice as many places you can go.”

Most of the changes are the result of a new Hive castle on the surface of the Moon, which acts as a stronghold for the enemy faction. The Fallen have also created a new base for themselves on the Moon by utilizing the remains of a destroyed starship. Poe added that several structures that were previously inaccessible on Destiny’s Moon will be explorable in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep.

The lighting used in the different locations on the Moon has been adjusted as well. “In [Destiny 1], the lighting is a little more clean-cut,” Poe said. “We went with a lot more saturated colors in some spaces. But in [Destiny 2], we were trying to give this feeling of desaturation and general spookiness. We wanted it to feel a little more mysterious.”

It’s this theme of mystery and discovery that lies at the heart of players’ return to the Moon in Shadowkeep. “There’s so much we don’t know about the Moon,” Destiny 2 senior writer Adam Miller said. “I think a lot of [Shadowkeep] is about mystery.” Poe added, “One of the things we really liked about the Moon in Destiny 1 was that it brought in this element of spacefaring and the height of humanity, the height of where we landed as humans before the Collapse. So there’s a lot of stories that we’re telling about the history of humanity here. The people that built the Accelerator. The people that built all these structures on the Moon. Like what happened to them, where did they go?”

Destiny 2’s creepy Shadowkeep expansion launches on September 17, coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC.