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When it comes to adapting a video game into a live-action adventure, it’s a tricky proposition. After all, you have to create something a mainstream audience can invest in while making sure fans of the source material are satisfied. Bargain bins are filled with examples of movies that missed the mark, but Showtime is betting it can right the wrongs of previous adaptations with its upcoming Halo TV show.

Speaking to press at the TCA press tour, Showtime Networks co-president Gary Levine revealed casting announcements for the character of Cortana, among others, and detailed how the show plans to appeal to fans of the Halo games. “The good news is we’ve been working very closely with 343 [Studios] through the entire development process,” he explained. “And they are there both as a resource to tell us stuff we don’t know and also to make sure we’re not violating anything big in the canon. So we’re doing this with total confidence that the fans are going to embrace what we’re doing.”

He also noted that while the graphic content of the show will be along the lines of what’s seen in other Showtime series–“PG-13,” as he put it–“violence is going to have consequence.” When it comes to a war between the USNC and the Covenant, that’s reassuring to hear.

The big question remains whether we’ll see Master Chief’s face on the new show, though. When GameSpot asked Levine about it a year ago, he teased Chief’s potential unmasking as “a key question and an important part of our series.”

While Levine still won’t reveal whether viewers will see the character’s face, American Gods alum Pablo Schreiber has been cast in the role. What that in mind, we asked what made the actor such a good fit for a potentially faceless part. “What I love about Pablo is he has the physicality to be a Spartan, to be Master Chief,” Levine explained. “But he is A: a great dramatic actor and B: he’s got such a twinkle in his eyes. [He’s] so good with wit and comedy. And we want the Master Chief to have that range. And Pablo brings the range.”

It’s still too early to tell, given that Halo doesn’t begin production until the fall. Our money’s on Chief taking off his mask to show viewers that “twinkle in his eyes,” though.

Halo is scheduled to debut on Showtime in 2021.

Disclosure: Showtime is owned by CBS, the parent company of GameSpot.

Indie studio Starsoft has revealed its first game, Savior, a platformer with very impressive, fluid-looking anmiation.

Savior is described as a 2D, action-adventure platformer where you will “dramatically change a vast open world [and] engage [with] a variety of opponents [using] strategic, precision melee combat.” The game has you controlling Sam, an adventurer caught in the middle of a cold war between The Chosen and The Fallen. It looks similar in style to classic ’80s and ’90s cinematic platformers like Another World and Prince of Persia, with elements of modern pixel-art platformers like Chasm and The Messenger thrown in for good measure.

“While you’ll need to gain wealth, power and allies; the central task of Savior is to rebuild the societies and world around you,” Starsoft wrote in a press release. “We’re building in sweeping, persistent visual changes to reinforce the idea that the player can, and does, change the world with their actions.”

Though no release date or platforms have been announced yet, Savior is available to wishlist on Steam, signalling it will arrive on PC at the very least.

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Bandai Namco has released the first trailer for Digimon ReArise and also announced the game will launch outside Japan. Pre-registration is already open if you want to sign up and be one of the first Digidestined to play.

In story mode, Digimon ReArise has a Pusurimon spawn inside your smartphone. After conversing with the digital monster, the two of you become friends. Your peaceful days are interrupted though when the monstrous Spirals attack. Pusurimon comes to your aid, emerging from your phone and digivolving into Herissmon. Herissmon becomes your Digimon partner, and the two of you go on a journey together to stop the threat posed by the Spirals.

On your quest, you meet and befriend tamer Michi Shinjo and her partner Salamon, tamer Keito Tamada and his partner Elecmon, tamer Mayu Kohinata and her partner Kudamon, and tamer Takumi Hiiragi and his partner Dorumon. You also run into an Agumon, whose tamer’s identity is a mystery (we’re guessing it’s Taichi/Tai given the focus on the character for Digimon Adventure’s 20th anniversary).

Digimon ReArise has other things to do outside of the story though. You’re able to connect with other players for tamer-versus-tamer battles that support up to five-on-five fights. Battles occur in real time, forcing you to balance your cooldown timers–much like the upcoming Pokemon Masters. Outside of battle, you can raise different Digimon and send them to DigiTown, an enclosed space you can decorate as you see fit and where your digital companions can befriend each other, be fed, and have fun. They can also be sent to a gym to train and become more powerful. Once one of your Digimon’s stats are high enough and their bond with you strong enough, they’ll be able to digivolve and pull off more powerful attacks.

Digimon ReArise is scheduled to officially release for iOS and Android mobile devices in 2019. You’re given prizes for pre-registering, including a digiegg that hatches into Pumpkinmon–one of the Digimon in the game that’s been given a brand-new mega evolution.