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Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct delivered a ton of new details about the upcoming fighting game, kicking off with the announcement of Simon and Richter Belmont as playable characters. Those weren’t the only new fighters introduced during the broadcast, however; Nintendo also revealed that Fire Emblem Awakening‘s Chrom and Metroid Prime 3‘s Dark Samus are joining the roster.

Like Princess Daisy and Richter Belmont, both Chrom and Dark Samus are Echo Fighters–clones of other characters already on the roster with a different appearance and slightly tweaked abilities and moves. Chrom is based on Roy, while Dark Samus is, naturally, an Echo Fighter of Samus, boasting many of the same abilities as the bounty hunter.

Nintendo also revealed a few more details on how Echo Fighters work. Players have two different options for how the characters are displayed on the roster; they can either be laid out as separate fighters on the selection screen, or stack atop the character they’re based on. Players can then change between the fighters simply by pressing a button.

That wasn’t the extent of the new character reveals during the Smash Bros. Direct. Nintendo closed out the presentation by revealing one more new addition to the roster: Donkey Kong’s much-requested nemesis, King K. Rool. The villainous croc is an entirely original fighter, boasting moves inspired by his appearances in the Donkey Kong Country series. He can throw his crown like a boomerang and deflect attacks with his…ample stomach.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launches for Nintendo Switch on December 7. The game features the largest selection of playable characters and stages in the series to date, with nearly 70 announced fighters thus far and more than 100 stages. You can read more about the game in our roundup of everything we know about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

A Nintendo Direct covering the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was packed with surprises, including one for fans of the Monster Hunter franchise. The iconic monster Rathalos is joining the fray, and doing it in a way that’s unprecedented for the series.

In the presentation, director Masahiro Sakurai said that Rathalos is the first character to appear as both a boss and an assist trophy. The brief footage shows the dragon breathing fire, stomping around, and generally making himself at home among the cast of Nintendo characters.

Rathalos is something of an unofficial mascot for the Monster Hunter series, and has made guest appearances in other games such as Final Fantasy 14. This appearance is based on his look in the most recent game, Monster Hunter: World. That game has been ruled out for a Nintendo Switch port, so its appearance in Smash Bros. will have to do.

Other announcements at the Nintendo Direct included Simon and Richter Belmont, Donkey Kong villain King K. Rool, and Chrom and Dark Samus as Echo characters. If you missed it you can catch up here.

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Nintendo released a Nintendo Direct presentation that focused on the upcoming Switch game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Among many other pieces of news, the company announced that Donkey Kong Country villain King K. Rool will be a playable character in the game–the croc’s first appearance in the series.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is set to land on Nintendo Switch on December 7. In addition to many other characters announced in the Nintendo Direct, it will also feature every character who’s ever appeared in the entire series, giving it by far the biggest roster of any Smash Bros. game in history.

King K. Rool made his first appearance in the 1994 Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country. He is the leader of a gang of crocodilian enemies known as Kremlings, and one of his eyes is veiny and bulging. He’s a fairly goofy villain, using tactics like pretending to be defeated to get a leg up on the Kong crew. In Ultimate, he’ll be able to throw his boomerang-like crown at opponents and use a blunderbuss that can fire cannonballs.

Other new characters appearing for the first time in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate include Castlevania’s Simon Belmont and Richter, who will be Simon’s echo, meaning he’ll control similar to Simon. Also announced was Dark Samus, an echo character for Samus who first appeared in the Metroid Prime series.

WWE’s upcoming PPV Summerslam will be coming to the WWE Network on Sunday, August 19. For the fourth year in a row, WWE’s premiere summer event will be taking place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Many of WWE’s titles will be on the line for the major event, including a deja vu moment where Roman Reigns will take on Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship.

Summerslam‘s main card will start at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT. In the past couple of years, the bigger WWE events, like Summerslam and Wrestlemania, have had longer Kickoff Shows, which are two hours long, so expect this Kickoff to start at 5 PM ET / 2 PM PT. As of this writing, WWE’s scheduling for August 19 is not available, so we don’t know for sure.

If you’re interested in watching the event, but don’t have the WWE Network, you can sign up for one month for free and cancel at any time without any contractual obligations. That means you can watch Summerslam for free and cancel right afterwards. However, if you like the service, it’ll cost you $10 a month to continue using it. The WWE Network is available on gaming consoles, iOS, Android, Roku, Smart TVs, and more.

As of this writing, there are already eleven matches on the card, and there could possibly be more added, included a match for the Raw Tag Team Championship. If it happens, it will be announced the Monday before the event.

Aside from Reigns taking on Lesnar for the Universal Championship for the umpteenth time, there are some continuations of solid storylines as well as new rivalries that have some legs. Jeff Hardy will get his rematch against Shinsuke Nakamura for the United States Championship, and hopefully, Hardy learns to wear a cup to protect himself from low blows. Additionally, Ronda Rousey will get a chance to win the Raw Women’s Championship from Alexa Bliss. Hopefully, if Rousey ends up winning, she will be a fighting champion and not absent like a certain champion on the men’s roster has been for the past couple of years. The card is already pretty filled out, and we’re still a couple weeks away from the show.

Summerslam match card:

• Cedric Alexander (c) vs. Drew Gulak (For the Cruiserweight Championship)
• Shinsuke Nakamura (c) vs. Jeff Hardy (For the United States Championship)
• Carmella (c) vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch (For the Smackdown Women’s Championship)
• Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz
• Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Seth Rollins (For the Intercontinental Championship)
• Braun Strowman vs. Kevin Owens
• The Bludgeon Brothers (c) vs. The New Day (For the Smackdown Tag Team Championship)
• Finn Balor vs. Baron Corbin
• Alexa Bliss (c) vs. Ronda Rousey (For the Raw Women’s Championship)
• AJ Styles (c) vs. Samoa Joe (For the WWE Championship)
• Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Roman Reigns (For the Universal Championship)

Make sure to come back to GameSpot on Sunday, August 19 for live coverage of the event. Don’t expect the demon from Hell, Kane, to be involved in this PPV in anyway though. He’s currently transitioning into his new role as mayor.

Nintendo kicked off today’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct presentation by revealing not one, but two brand-new characters: Simon and Richter Belmont from the Castlevania series. The new fighters were introduced via a grim cinematic trailer, which began with Luigi exploring a dark castle filled with supernatural monsters.

Just as in Konami’s classic series, Simon uses many of his signature items in battle, including his iconic whip. According to director Masahiro Sakurai, Simon’s whip is a bit slow and leaves him open, but it has a longer average reach than other fighters and can be controlled freely. Simon can also throw axes and crosses, as well as use holy water. His Final Smash, meanwhile, is called the Grand Cross; it stuffs opponents into a coffin and launches them.

Simon’s stage is Dracula’s Castle, which Sakurai notes is the darkest stage in the game. Attacking candlesticks around the level will drop items. Iconic Castlevania bosses and enemies such as Medusa and Flea Man also appear on the stage, as will Dracula–although the conditions that make him appear appear to be a mystery. The stage also features 34 new and classic music tracks.

Richter Belmont, meanwhile, is an Echo Fighter based on Simon. He has his own distinct voice and animations, but his moveset is similar to his ancestor’s. Another iconic Castlevania protagonist, Alucard, also appears in the Ultimate as an Assist Trophy. and his moves are inspired by Symphony of the Night.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launches for Nintendo Switch on December 7. We learned a ton of other details about the game during the new Direct presentation and got a look at several other new fighters, including Chrom, Dark Samus, and the much requested King K. Rool from Donkey Kong Country.

Blizzard has dropped some news on Twitter regarding the dungeon-crawling Diablo series. In addition to saying it would continue using themes for future seasons of Diablo III, community manager Brandy Camel said in a video that Blizzard is currently working on multiple other Diablo projects.

“The forges here at Blizzard are burning hot, and we have multiple Diablo projects in the works,” Camel said. “Some of them are going to take longer than others, but we may have some things to show you later this year.”

That’s all the new information we got, but this isn’t the first hint we’ve seen that Blizzard is working on new Diablo games. A job listing for a dungeon artist appeared on the company’s website earlier this year. The listing said it was for an “unannounced Diablo game.” Whether that would be a full sequel to Diablo III or some kind of spinoff was unclear.

A Blizzard Twitter post from February, showing a demonic nightlight flicking on and off, also sparked rumors that Diablo III was heading for Nintendo Switch, although Blizzard denied it, saying, “We can assure you we’re not that clever.” Even so, Eurogamer said its sources confirmed a Switch port is, in fact, in the works.

As for Diablo III, its 14th season was based on the theme of greed. As such, all Treasure Goblin spawns were doubled, so when one Goblin would normally appear, two appeared instead, doubling the amount of loot players could collect if they were fast enough to slay them both. According to Camel, upcoming seasons will also have themes.