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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.

Despite its initial reluctance to bring its properties to smartphones, Nintendo has been slowly expanding its reach into the mobile market. The company has a couple of new smartphone games on the way this year, including the recently announced Dr. Mario World. But while mobile games will remain a component of Nintendo’s business, it seems the company doesn’t want players to spend too much on them.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo has had its development partners adjust their mobile games so that players don’t spend an excessive amount of money in them. Like many other smartphone titles, most of Nintendo’s mobile offerings are free to download and feature optional in-app purchases, but WSJ reports that Nintendo is wary of being perceived as greedy for these microstransactions and potentially tarnishing its brand.

Nintendo’s most recent smartphone venture is Dragalia Lost, an action RPG co-developed by Granblue Fantasy studio Cygames. The game launched back in September and has proven to be a modest success, surpassing $75 million in revenue worldwide according to Sensor Tower. However, Cygames parent company CyberAgent has had to cut its earnings forecast–the first time it has done so in 17 years–because the title has underperformed.

Dragalia Lost features a gacha summoning system, through which players can acquire new characters and other items by exchanging in-game currency, which can most easily be obtained by spending real-world money. After the game’s release, however, players complained that it was too difficult to acquire rare characters, prompting Nintendo to approach CyberAgent to adjust the game.

While this philosophy is undoubtedly beneficial for consumers, it has affected the bottom line of Nintendo’s partners. “Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game,” WSJ quotes one CyberAgent official as saying. “If we managed the game alone, we would have made a lot more.”

Nintendo has two new smartphone games announced for this year. The aforementioned Dr. Mario World, which is co-developed by LINE, is slated to launch early this summer. Meanwhile, Nintendo’s mobile Mario Kart game, Mario Kart Tour, was originally scheduled to release in March but has now been delayed to summer.

Capcom’s Devil May Cry 5 is almost here, releasing on March 8 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The newest entry to the Devil May Cry franchise further evolves the series’ staple over-the-top action and ridiculous style.

If you’re planning on picking the game up, you don’t have to worry about it taking over too much of your life. After playing through Devil May Cry 5, GameSpot editors Matt Espineli and Alessandro Fillari both said it took them about 15 hours to complete the main campaign. So if you want to, it’s plausible to finish Capcom’s new game in a weekend. For those who want a bit more out of the game, new difficulties unlock in Devil May Cry 5 after you complete it the first time.

In our Devil May Cry 5 review, Matt Espineli gave the game a 9/10, writing, “DMC5 thrives on the stylistic and mechanical prowess of its predecessors. It sticks to tradition above all else, pursuing a few ambitious new ideas along the way, but mostly maintaining the series’ focus on intricate fighting systems and campy bravado. Rarely does the game stumble, consistently leveraging its spectacle and mechanical depth to push aside any small frustrations. All the while, the story exudes a charismatic charm that keeps you constantly intrigued as you’re refining your skills. DMC5 proves the series can still be brilliant and imaginative without compromising its longest-held traditions.”

If you still need some more information before you decide whether you want to pre-order Devil May Cry 5, we’ve compiled everything there is to know about the game. Pre-ordering Devil May Cry 5 nets you a handful of in-game bonuses which is dependent on which edition you buy. The standard edition comes with five alternative costumes for the game’s characters. You’ll get those costumes plus 100,000 Red Orbs–Devil May Cry 5’s in-game currency that can be earned or bought with microtransactions–with the Deluxe Edition. Regardless of which edition you buy, pre-ordering either one on PS4 gets you a Devil May Cry 5 PS4 theme.

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A new key visual has been revealed for the upcoming Digimon film that celebrates the original 1999 anime’s 20th anniversary. The art is the first teaser image released for the new movie, which was first announced in May 2018. It can be seen below.

The key visual doesn’t showcase much–it’s a shot of Taichi (Tai in the English dub) and his partner Digimon, Agumon, holding hands. Taichi has also removed his goggles, an accessory he’s worn for most of his partnership with Agumon. The visual was revealed via a tweet by Digimon Adventure Tri character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, who, according to Siliconera, made the image based on a specific scene from the upcoming movie. The tweet is accompanied by the message to “Please remember Taichi and Agumon this way until the movie releases.”

Not much information is known about the upcoming movie. According to Crunchyroll, the entire cast of Digimon Adventure Tri is scheduled to reprise their respective roles in the new film. Producer Yosuke Kinoshita wants the movie to be both meaningful for the fans who have been watching Digimon since the 1999 anime, while also making its story accessible for newcomers to understand. Although Digimon Adventure’s 20th anniversary is this year (tomorrow, March 7, actually), the movie is scheduled for Spring 2020. However, a new video game that celebrates the anniversary–titled Digimon Survive–is coming out this year.

The original Digimon Adventure anime follows the journey and battles of Taichi, Yamato (Matt), Sora, Koshiro (Izzy), Mimi, and Joe, as well as Taichi’s younger sister Kari and Yamato’s little brother Takeru (T.K.). All eight are elementary school-age kids who become trapped in the Digital World, another universe populated by monsters who can utilize energy to digivolve into more powerful forms. As the DigiDestined, all eight carry devices that can supply their partner Digimon with the necessary energy to digivolve on command.

A second season saw most of the cast pass the DigiDestined mantle onto a new team of kids as Taichi, Yamato, Sora, Koshiro, Mimi, and Joe entered middle school. 2015’s Digimon Adventure Tri picks up several years later, with the original eight DigiDestined–now in high school–reuniting with their partners. The new, upcoming movie ages the original cast to around 22-years-old.

The next episode of Gotham, “The Trial of Jim Gordon,” isn’t the series finale of the Fox show. However, it is the final installment of the series that was filmed before production wrapped. In the episode, Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is near death after being shot and finds himself hallucinating a trial to determine whether or not he deserves to live, taking a deep look at everything Gordon has done since Gotham’s pilot, for better or worse.

This particular episode also happens to be directed by Erin Richards, who plays Barbara Kean on the series. Having her at the helm for the final scenes filmed for the show created a special environment on-set, as the cast said goodbye to the characters they’ve embodied for five seasons. “It was the most emotionally satisfying end to this journey that you could possibly imagine,” Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Penguin, told GameSpot at the TCA press tour. “To have someone who had been with all of us since the pilot, and to have her be one of us, as the actors, and just her connection to the crew, it was just so warm and beautiful and just super fitting to the family that we had built together over these last couple of years.”

Additionally, as McKenzie–who wrote the episode–explained, the final scene of the episode was as close to a Gotham family reunion as you could expect. “We shot that in the confines of the set, in our big GCPD set–which is the first one that we built, the one that’s lasted for five years–in front of everyone you know,” he said. “The principal cast, most of [whom] are in character and some of whom just showed up on the day. The crew and our background players that have been there for five years, many of them. It was really wonderful that Erin was directing. It was a nice way to say goodbye.”

For Richards, getting to direct her first episode of TV and having it also be the final installment of a series she’s spent five years on was a unique experience. “It was like the most creatively inspiring, the funnest, the most challenging. And then just the most perfect way to end the most beautiful story,” she said. “I could not ask for anything better. And I was so present for every moment. I don’t know if directing does that, but I just felt like I was really experiencing every moment of it, which meant that I wasn’t really sad when we finished because I could not have possibly have asked for anything more.”

And once the final frame of “The Trial of Jim Gordon” has aired, the home stretch begins for Gotham. There will be only three episodes left as the series rockets to its Batman-filled conclusion. Given how often Gotham carves its own path, though, it remains to be seen whether Gordon will actually survive his trial and be around to see it all happen.

Gotham airs Thursdays on Fox.

Nintendo is holding its first event in-game event in Tetris 99 this week. The Maximus Cup kicks off on March 8, and it gives players a chance to earn $10 worth of My Nintendo points.

Throughout the Maximus Cup, players will compete to rack up the most first-place wins in Tetris 99. The top 999 players by the end of the event will be rewarded with 999 My Nintendo Gold points. These points can typically only be earned by buying Switch titles, and they can be used toward purchasing games and DLC from the Switch Eshop.

The Maximus Cup begins at 5 AM PT on March 8 and ends at 11:59 PT on March 10 (2:59 AM ET on March 11). You can read additional details about the event on Nintendo’s website.

Tetris 99 is a battle royale-inspired take on the classic puzzle game, pitting 99 players against each other in a competition to be the last one remaining. GameSpot’s Peter Brown called it “riveting experience that even at its worst is still a game very much worth playing” in our Tetris 99 review, and other critics have had similar positive things to say about it.

Tetris 99 is free to download for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. Memberships cost $4 USD per month, $8 USD for three months, and $20 USD for 12 months. Nintendo also offers a $35 annual Family Membership that can be shared between eight Nintendo Accounts, even across multiple consoles.

Another perk you get for subscribing to the Nintendo Switch Online service is access to a catalog of classic NES games, which is updated monthly. This month, Nintendo will be adding Kid Icarus and StarTropics to the library beginning March 13.