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Phoenix Labs has announced the latest update for Dauntless is now live. The free-to-play Monster Hunter-like game’s newest expansion is called Fortune & Glory, and it adds a bunch of new content to Dauntless–including Trials, a brand-new Hunt Pass, and more cosmetic rewards.

“Fortune & Glory provides Slayers with a formidable new challenge in the form of Trials,” Phoenix Labs press contact Andy Burt wrote in a press release. “The Trials experience is a new gameplay offering from Lady Luck, an enigmatic figure who arrives in Ramsgate with a mysterious island in tow. Trials will pit adventurous Slayers against dangerous, modified Behemoths and all-new environmental challenges, like terrain-transforming pests. With the clock ticking through each hunt, it will be up to Trials’ challengers to prove that they can execute under pressure.”

Split into both Normal and Dauntless difficulties, the Trials offer a variety of rewards for completing them. You can earn Steel Marks for finishing Normal Trials, which can then be used to buy weapon mods and alternate special attacks. Completing Dauntless level Trials nets you Gilded Marks, which can be used to purchase exclusive cosmetic rewards. Completing Trials is the only way to earn Steel Marks and Gilded Marks.

With the arrival of Fortune & Glory comes the beginning of Dauntless’ sixth season, High Skies. The new season brings a new Hunt Pass for you to work your way through, with 50 levels of pirate-themed content to unlock. Phoenix Labs reports that High Skies will actually contain two Hunt Passes, but the studio hasn’t revealed a specific date for the release of the second pass (or what theme it will encompass), but it is expected to launch sometime in August.

Dauntless is available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. A Switch version is scheduled to release in 2019.

In our Dauntless review, Ginny Woo wrote, “Overall, Dauntless is clearly an experience that has been optimized to deliver the most stress-free multiplayer session possible. From the seamless crossplay to the way that anyone can hop into a game and confidently take up arms against formidable foes, it’s refreshingly accessible and looks great to boot. While it can feel a little empty, and there are bugs that mar the experience here and there, its fresh look and lively spark are more than enticing enough to warrant a spin.”

Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 were announced for Nintendo Switch back in June during E3, and now Capcom has announced exactly when they’ll release on Nintendo’s hybrid system. Not only that, but Capcom announced the Resident Evil Triple Pack for Switch that contains Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, and Resident Evil 6.

Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 release on Nintendo Switch through the eShop on October 29. The games are priced at $30 USD each. Resident Evil 5 for Switch comes with all of the Gold Edition content, while Resident Evil 6 for Switch comes with all previously released DLC, including the Mercenaries and Agent Hunt modes.

As for the Resident Evil Triple Pack, this compilation package includes Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 5, and Resident Evil 6 for Nintendo Switch. RE4 comes on a cartridge, while RE5 and RE6 are digital codes. The Resident Evil Triple Pack costs $60 USD, and it also releases on October 29.

While RE 5 and RE 6 don’t release until October for Switch, Capcom is bringing both titles to San Diego Comic-Con. You can find them at the Capcom booth, which is #215 in Hall A.

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The 2016 Warcraft movie from director Duncan Jones made more than $433 million worldwide, but despite that huge box office number, it appears the sequels that Jones wanted to make are not going to happen–and there are a number of reasons why that is.

Jones told Collider that he would have “loved” to make two more movies to complete the trilogy, but it’s looking unlikely that the follow-ups will be made. Despite that, Jones said he thinks Warcraft is being appreciated more and more now, as time goes on.

“It really would have been pretty special,” he said of his plans for a trilogy. “It’s unfortunate now, you gotta try and go with your harp on these things. I made the film as best I could on the first film hoping that it would connect with an audience. I genuinely think that in retrospect and as time has moved on, people are starting to appreciate the film than maybe the critics did when it first came out but unfortunately I don’t think we’re going to get to make any more.”

Jones said this three-film arc for Warcraft would have included further storytelling for Gul’dan and Thrall, and on a wider level, how the orcs left their home world to live in Azeroth.

Also in the interview, Jones spoke about the challenging nature of working with so many different stakeholders to get Warcraft made.

“It was an absolute… The essence of studio filmmaking,” he said. “I got a chance to experience multiple studios takes on what a film of this size should be on one movie because it was originally. Originally, we were Warner Brothers, I was working with Atlas, I was working with Universal. It was working with Legendary, I was working with Blizzard and obviously Blizzard were very passionate about what film should be because they are who had been with the game for so long and they didn’t want to detract from that. So there were more points as to what the film needed to be. And then Legendary was bought by Wanda while we were making the movie. So it was a unique moment in time for experiencing what kind of craziness studio filmmaking could be.”

Warcraft only made $47.4 million in the US and Canada, but it made $386.3 million–or 89.1 percent of its total box office revenue–from overseas markets. China accounted for a massive $213.5 million of the movie’s international grosses. On a worldwide basis, Warcraft is the 258th biggest movie ever, ahead of Detective Pikachu and numerous other franchise movies.

Warcraft had a reported budget of $160 million, so $433 million in worldwide grosses sounds like a success story. However, as ScreenRant points out, Hollywood studios only make about 25 percent of a film’s gross in China, so Warcraft’s $213.5 million in China netted Legendary only $53.4 million. In America, a film studio typically takes home around 50 percent off the box office. Using that math, ScreenRant estimates that Warcraft actually only made $145 million, which is below its reported production budget; and this number doesn’t even count marketing expenses. Looking at the numbers through that light, it’s not hard to understand why the Warcraft sequels aren’t coming.

Warcraft stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, and Daniel Wu.

As for Jones, he went on to release the low-budget sci-fi movie Mute for Netflix in 2018. It is in the same universe as his 2009 breakout hit Moon starring Sam Rockwell. Jones had said he had plans for a third movie in that connected universe, but for now, it’s only a graphic novel. “

“It’s going to be a tricky one to finance in this era where original material on a bigger budget is difficult to get made, so I definitely want to do the graphic novel so at least it will exist in some form,” he told Polygon. “Then, hopefully, if people read the graphic novel and get really excited about it, I’m gonna try and use that as a way to leverage getting the movie made.”