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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will spend roughly a year after its launch adding more characters, stages, and music tracks via downloadable content. Don’t waste time starting that letter campaign for Dixie Kong, though–director Masahiro Sakurai says the roster is already locked.

“Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC line-up is now complete,” Sakurai said in a tweet. “This time the selection was made entirely by Nintendo. I decide if we can create a fighter based on their selection, then come up with the plan.”

The phrasing does note that the selections were already made “this time,” leaving the door open for another series of DLC content to follow that could include fan requests. The community has been vocal about some of their favorite characters, including Waluigi, Banjo-Kazooie, and others. Of course, he could have simply been contrasting this time with last time, meaning the last Smash Bros. game.

Six downloadable characters are coming in all. The first, Piranha Plant, will be available for free for everyone who purchases and registers the game by January 31, 2019. He’ll come later as a purchasable character. Five more fighters will be added in DLC packs that are bundled with an additional stage and some new music tracks. Those packs will cost $6 apiece, and a Fighter’s Pass bundle will get you all of them for $25. Buying the Fighter’s Pass will also get you an outfit based on Rex from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

The announcement of Piranha Plant and the DLC fighters came alongside the last two roster reveals in the main game: Ken and Incineroar. That announcement also debuted the final mode, Spirits, which has you take on a series of challenges to earn equippable character buffs. That Nintendo Direct mentioned that the DLC wasn’t locked down yet, so the character selections may be very recent.

Smash Bros. Ultimate releases on December 7 for Nintendo Switch.

It’s a new week, so of course the PlayStation Store has a new batch of deals available that can save you a heap of cash on some terrific PS4, PS3, and PS Vita games. Additionally, last week’s Double Discount Sale continues, meaning PS Plus members get extra savings on many of the on-sale items. Just make sure to secure your purchases by November 13, when these deals go away.

But before you go on a spending spree, you might want to take a peek at our PS4 Black Friday roundup, which will be consistently updated with the best deals on PS4 consoles, bundles, games, and accessories. Some big savings have already been announced, so check there to start planning your Black Friday shopping spree.

Back on the PlayStation Store, you can create your own deadly theme park in Jurassic World Evolution for $51 (or $42 with PS Plus); just try to keep the dinosaurs in their pens. With Battlefield V launching later this month, you might want to grab the previous installment, Battlefield 1, for $24 ($8). And if a trippy version of Tetris sounds like your kind of thing, the you can pre-order Tetris Effect on sale for $36 before its release on November 9 (you can play it in PSVR, too).

If you want to drop in on the Japanese crime world, you can pick up Yakuza 0 for $18 ($16) or Yakuza 6: The Song of Life for $45 ($30). Perhaps you’re looking to build a real-life skill. If so, for $21 ($12) you can get Rocksmith 2014 Remastered and learn how to play guitar. Or you can just build a digital metropolis in Cities: Skylines for $30 ($20).

You’ll find more selections below, and you can check out all of this week’s deals here.

With Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee set to arrive on Nintendo Switch in a little over a week, The Pokemon Company is ramping up excitement for their release with another new trailer. While the last one gave us our first glimpse at Lavender Town, this video showcases some of the challenging trainers who stand in your way of becoming a Pokemon Master. Mild spoilers follow.

The trailer begins with a look at Sabrina, the Psychic-type Gym Leader of Saffron City. We also get a glimpse of the leader of the villainous Team Rocket, Giovanni, as well as a quick look at the Elite Four–the four powerful trainers who await you at the Pokemon League. You’ll only be able to challenge the Elite Four after you’ve collected all eight Gym badges in the Kanto region, and you’ll need to defeat them in succession in order to become the champion.

Most notably, the new trailer also reveals that Red and Blue–the protagonist and rival of the original Red, Blue, and Yellow versions–will appear in Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee. From the looks of it, you’ll be able to battle them during your adventure, though whether they use their original Pokemon lineup remains to be seen. Red and Blue aren’t the only callbacks to the original Gen 1 games, either; at the end of the trailer, you can see a brief glimpse of the female trainer who appeared alongside them in the titles’ original artwork.

As The Pokemon Company recently revealed, your adventure doesn’t end once you’ve defeated the Elite Four. After you’ve become the Pokemon League Champion, powerful new Master Trainers will appear around the region. Each one specializes in one particular Pokemon, and you’ll need to battle them using that same Pokemon in order to claim their title.

Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee launch for Nintendo Switch on November 16. You can read more about the games in our latest hands-on impressions. We also got to speak with Let’s Go director Junichi Masuda recently about the challenges of updating Pokemon Yellow for a new generation and why Pokemon rivals aren’t jerks anymore, among other things.

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The first season of Mayans MC has come to an end and what a story it told. Sons of Anarchy fans hoping for a nice and easy follow up to the original series were in for a shock quickly, as they learned this particular club is riddled with fractures among its members.

Still, through new characters, a different location, and a healthy dose of references and Easter egg nods to Sons of Anarchy, Mayans MC has managed to become an exciting show to watch. One that, quite honestly, we can’t wait to have return.

How closely were you paying attention to this season, though? Did you realize the show was stuffed with Sons of Anarchy references, ranging from bringing back fan-favorite characters to even small nods to former plots?

After watching this season, we’ve dug through so much Sons of Anarchy lore that it’s as if the original show never ended. Thankfully, that’s amounted to a pretty comprehensive collection of the Easter eggs dropped into Mayans MC by co-creator Kurt Sutter and his creative partners on the series. How many of these did you spot? And what did we miss? Sound off in the comments and let us know!

Studio Wildcard has announced that the new expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved, titled Extinction, will go live on PC today. Extinction continues Ark’s story by pitting humanity against giant mega-dinosaur creatures called Titans.

Defeating the raid boss-like Titans is the centerpiece to Extinction, but the expansion also adds more creatures to tame and technology to utilize. Cryopods, for example, are handy pieces of tech that allow you to store your creatures and easily carry them around in your inventory. You’ll be able to transfer your preexisting characters into Extinction, but your items and tamed creatures will have to stay behind. Whatever you claim in Extinction, though, can be brought back with you into Ark’s older maps.

“We will be introducing North American and European Extinction servers first,” Studio Wildcard senior community manager Jen Stuber wrote in a Steam blog post. “We will be releasing an initial start batch of servers, and bringing more servers online as needed so please be patient for us during this period. The servers will be the standard 70-player cap. Extinction will be included in all CrossARK clusters (except ‘TheHundred’), as well as Conquest and Small Tribes servers.”

Extinction’s PC servers are scheduled to launch today, but as of this post are still not yet live due to a few issues. Both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Extinction will launch on November 13. Extinction comes included in Ark’s Season Pass, but can be purchased separately as well.

The PC version of Ark: Survival Evolved is being offered as free-to-play until November 11 on Steam. You can also buy the game at a discounted price of $20 / £18 / €22 until November 13.