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NetherRealm has released the official Mortal Kombat 11 reveal trailer for Cassie Cage. Although Cassie was confirmed today to be included in the upcoming Mortal Kombat game, the new trailer offers a more detailed sampling of her moveset. It can be watched in the video above.

First seen in Mortal Kombat X, Cassie Cage is the daughter of both Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage, two other Mortal Kombat fan favorites who have also been confirmed for the eleventh entry (along with several other fighters). Like her mother, Cassie has near perfect aim when it comes to using firearms and has a knack for utilizing technology. She also takes after her father, though, utilizing his same superhuman abilities to amplify her speed and strength.

Cassie’s inclusion in Mortal Kombat 11 was first revealed in a trailer that dropped earlier today. The trailer also includes Erron Black and Jacqui Briggs, two other Mortal Kombat X fighters, and focuses on Kronika and her attempts to fix the rift being caused by Raiden. Her efforts cause multiple realities to be drawn together, which is why Mortal Kombat 11 features so many characters from different time periods.

In preparation for Mortal Kombat 11’s release, NetherRealm is planning an online stress test for March 15-17. The test will be closed save for a select few, and only available in the US on Xbox One and PS4. There will be a follow-up beta test, though, in case you don’t make it in–which will take place from March 28-31. To participate, you’ll need to pre-order Mortal Kombat 11. Just know the beta is only available on Xbox One and PS4. Pre-ordering Mortal Kombat 11 also gets you Shao Kahn as a playable character.

Mortal Kombat 11 releases April 23 for Xbox One, PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch. You can read more about it in our new Mortal Kombat 11 preview.

With the final season of Game of Thrones ready to premiere on HBO, fans are dying to know how the epic series will come to an end. If they’re expecting to find out from George RR Martin, author of the A Song of Fire and Ice novels, though, they’re out of luck.

“I haven’t read the [final-season] scripts and haven’t been able to visit the set because I’ve been working on [The Winds of Winter],” he told Entertainment Weekly. “I know some of the things. But there’s a lot of minor-character [arcs] they’ll be coming up with on their own. And, of course, they passed me several years ago. There may be important discrepancies.”

As for the show ending as a whole, Martin explained that he has “mixed feelings about that.” While the adaptation of his novels has become one of the biggest TV shows of all time, the screen version of the story has gone further than the events of the novels. “Obviously, I wished I finished these books sooner so the show hadn’t gotten ahead of me,” he said. “I never anticipated that.”

That said, though, Game of Thrones isn’t necessarily ending. As Martin explained, “It’s not the end for me. I’m still deeply in it. I better live a long time because I have a lot of work left to do.” In addition to The Winds of Winter, a seventh novel–A Promise of Spring–was previously announced. Beyond that, there’s also a prequel in the works.

And if you’re worried that the final season will spoil how the books will end, that shouldn’t be much of a concern. “Now that the show is ahead of the books, it seems the show could ruin the books for people,” co-showrunner David Benioff said. “So one thing we’ve talked to George about is that we’re not going to tell people what the differences are, so when those books come out people can experience them fresh,”

The final season of Game of Thrones premieres Sunday, April 14 on HBO. Make sure to check out the trailer for the new season and our deep dive breakdown into all of the secrets it holds.

Find Your Role

Gambit Prime is an amped-up version of the original Gambit, which was often something of a free-for-all. A four-player team scrambled to kill enemies and snag the motes they dropped in order to return them to the bank, and thanks to daily and weekly bounties, often teammates would steal motes from each other in order to pull higher numbers. Although everyone was on a team, players were still mostly out for themselves and rarely worked together in matchmaking rounds.

In Gambit Prime, there’s more of a push for team synergy. That means that each person on the team should have a specific role: Reaper, Sentry, Collector, or Invader. The Reaper’s job is to kill as many enemies as possible, while the Collector is meant to run around, grabbing motes and bringing them back to the bank, bringing in high totals and sending the toughest blockers to fight the opposing team. The Sentry’s job is to smash blockers as they appear, and to focus on Invaders when they show up, while the Invader should focus on striking blows against the other team as much as possible. Knowing your role, sticking to it, and earning the right armor for it in Gambit Prime and Reckoning can make you highly effective in Gambit Prime–but if you and your team don’t work together, you’re very likely to get wrecked by people who do.

Note, also, that just because you pick a specific role doesn’t mean it’s the only thing you can do. Experiment with multiple ways to play to find where you excel the most.

(Content warning: sexual assault.)

Valve has announced it will block the release of a controversial game that was to be distributed through its service. In its statement regarding the decision, it said the game poses “unknown costs and risks” and that the “chosen content matter and a way of representing it” render the distribution platform unable to work with the developer.

The game, titled “Rape Day,” is a visual novel set during a zombie apocalypse in which the player character can harass other survivors, kill people, and sexually assault women. It has been listed on the Steam marketplace with an impending release date, but Valve has now removed the listing. The company issued a statement through its Valve blog explaining the decision. You can read it in full below.

“Over the past week you may have heard about a game called ‘Rape Day’ coming soon to Steam. Today we’ve decided not to distribute this game on Steam. Given our previous communication around Who Gets To Be On The Steam Store?, we think this decision warrants further explanation.

“Much of our policy around what we distribute is, and must be, reactionary—we simply have to wait and see what comes to us via Steam Direct. We then have to make a judgement call about any risk it puts to Valve, our developer partners, or our customers. After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam.

“We respect developers’ desire to express themselves, and the purpose of Steam is to help developers find an audience, but this developer has chosen content matter and a way of representing it that makes it very difficult for us to help them do that.”

The reference to its previous blog entry was one that issued fairly loose policies and a general hands-off approach from Valve regarding what the company would allow on its platform. This led to an open question about whether a game like Rape Day would be allowed to be sold. This statement blocks this particular game but does not offer clarity on what similar types of content would not be allowed in the future.

The game had been set for release in April. The developer had informed customers that the approval process was taking longer than usual due to graphic content that was illegal in some countries, but said that it had marked the game as adult and issued thorough content warnings. The studio said that if Valve did prevent release of the game, it would seek out an alternate distribution platform.

One of the recent NXT callups, as well as the current NXT Champion, Tommaso Ciampa has made waves on the main WWE roster, only to have it taken away so quickly.

Ciampa will have to undergo neck surgery on March 7, putting him out of action, according to WWE. He has been scheduled for an anterior cervical fusion, which is a surgery to remove a herniated disc from the neck, through the front of the neck, in the throat area. Recovery time for a procedure like this is around three to six months for the patient to return to normal. WWE did not set a timetable for his potential return or how long he could be out.

This could explain why the focus on Ciampa and Johnny Gargano as a tag team on Raw quickly switched over to other NXT newcomers Ricochet and Aleister Black, who now have a Raw Tag Team Championship match at Fastlane, this Sunday.

With Ciampa out, this throws a few wrenches in WWE’s plans. Wrestlemania and NXT Takeover is right around the corner, and Ciampa is the NXT Champion. So what’s next? Ciampa for sure won’t be at WWE’s biggest PPV of the year, and while he may show up to Takeover, he probably won’t be competing. It’s more than likely we’ll see him vacate the NXT Championship, which isn’t a huge deal, since he’s moving up to the main roster anyway.

However, Ciampa undergoing surgery won’t affect his role in the upcoming NXT tag team event. Starting on March 6, the Dusty Rhodes Classic kicks off and Ciampa and Gargano have reteamed up for the event. Seeing as it’s pre-taped though, fans won’t miss anything.

It’s a bummer for NXT and WWE fans, as Raw was just getting a taste of DIY (Ciampa and Gargano), and they could really have helped put the tag team division there back on top. We wish him a speedy recovery.

While DIY won’t be competing at Fastlane this Sunday, their NXT peers Aleister Black and Ricochet will be, and we have predictions for that and all the matches for the WWE PPV.