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Strange Brigade, the intriguing co-op shooter set in the 1930s, will launch on August 28, developer Rebellion has announced. Not only that, but the UK studio also released a new trailer that shows off some of the content coming to the third-person shooter after launch.

Strange Brigade’s Season Pass will come with a three-part “mini” campaign featuring “amazing spectacles and incredible feats.” Additionally, the expansions will feature “brave new heroes” who have their own unique abilities. More weapons, outfits, and superpowers are also coming to Strange Brigade through its post-release content.

The Strange Brigade Deluxe Edition comes with the base game and the Season Pass. Additionally, Rebellion announced that all Strange Brigade pre-orders will come with extra content like the Service Service Weapons Pack, which comes with the Wilkers & White P19 pistol, the Stoudenmire 960 submachine gun, and the Gehrig-Delgane S1 rifle.

Strange Brigade puts you in the middle of an exotic and mysterious corner of 1930s Egypt. The Strange Brigade team discovers an army of terrorising zombies. Rebellion says the game will throw treacherous traps, puzzles, and hordes of monsters your way. The third-person shooter arms each of the four characters with their own weapons, tactics, and supernatural powers. Check out the game’s E3 2018 trailer in the embed above. The game is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Earlier this month, mega-publisher Electronic Arts announced that it had acquired Bungie co-founder Alex Seropian’s mobile game studio Industrial Toys for an undisclosed sum. At the time, EA said Industrial Toys will work on “bringing new game concepts to life,” but the company didn’t offer any further specifics. We still don’t know exactly what Industrial Toys is working on, but now EA CFO Blake Jorgensen has teased the project a little further.

Speaking on an earnings call, Jorgensen said the game is “innovative,” and that it may be out in the “next couple of years.”

“I won’t yet tell you what they’re working on but you will see something in the next couple of years coming out of that studio that we think is pretty innovative in the mobile space,” he said. “So we’re very excited.”

Jorgensen said EA was attracted to Industrial Toys as an acquisition target because EA as a company was impressed with the team and the quality of their ideas.

Industrial Toys, which was founded in 2012, says its aim is to make “mobile games for core gamers.” The studio has released two games so far: Midnight Star and Midnight Star: Renegade, featuring music from System of a Down’s Serj Tankian.

As for Seropian, he is an industry veteran. After leaving Halo studio Bungie, he experimented with outsourced game development at Wideload Games. After that, he led Disney’s games division through a time that saw the closure of Propaganda Games and Black Rock, as well as the cancellation of Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned. In 2012, he founded Industrial Toys.

Forza Motorsport 7 will turn a year old in October, and developer Turn 10 is planning a major change to one of its more controversial systems. Prize Crates, the Forza version of loot boxes, will be removed entirely from the game in an upcoming update. In the meantime, the impact of Prize Crates has been significantly reduced.

In the announcement, studio head Alan Hartman says, “The overwhelming feedback has been that this system feels out of place in the game.” As a result, both Prize Crates will be removed and paid tokens won’t be coming to replace them. Paid tokens also won’t be a part of the upcoming Forza Horizon 4.

That said, it won’t be just a matter of yanking out the loot boxes all at once. Citing how integrated Prize Crates were into the progression system of Driver Gear, Mods, and Badges, it will take some time to remove them. The team is aiming for winter. To reduce the impact of them, though, they’ve unlocked more than 100 previously “exclusive” cars and removed cars from prize crates entirely.

“The current lineup of prize crates offer no competitive advantage and only offer Driver Gear suits, Mods, and badges, and these crates will remain in place until crates are removed entirely,” the update states.

This isn’t the first time Turn 10 had to pull a U-turn on a controversial feature for Forza 7. Upon launch, some fans were annoyed that the VIP membership wasn’t clearly communicated and didn’t work as it had in previous games. The developer quickly issued a mea culpa and changed the system, and gave some freebies as a make-good.

The removal of prize crates is a slower burn, but that may be that players were more mixed on its implementation. GameSpot’s own Forza Motorsport 7 review found prize crates a friendly temptation without feeling onerous or mandatory. Still, a year later the community has spoken, and Turn 10 is turning it around.

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Nintendo has announced another Nintendo Labo kit, this one being focused on vehicles. The Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit, as it’s called, launches on September 14 and comes with cardboard materials you can use to create things like a car, a submarine, a plane, and more.

It also includes a “key,” which you can inset into any of the vehicles. To switch between vehicles you can remove the key and slot in a new one. The pack also includes a single pedal for driving. Check out the video embedded above to see how this works, and to get a first look at some of the mini-games you can play using the Vehicle Kit.

The Vehicle Kit is priced at $70 in the United States. It follows the previously released Variety Kit ($70) and Robot Kit ($80) that came out in April. You need a Nintendo Switch to play.

Nintendo also reminded players that the Vehicle Kit supports the Toy-Con Garage, which is the set of programming tools that you can use to further customise your creations.

This isn’t the first time Nintendo Labo and racing games have come together. In June, Nintendo updated Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to let you play with Toy-Con controllers.

If the trailer for the live-action Teen Titans movie made you feel a little dark, the clip that was just released from Teen Titans Go: To The Movies will definitely cheer you up. It’s a funny, lighthearted scene that draws on the current state of cinematic superhero saturation, making fun of superhero movies, including itself.

In the clip, the Titans are on a rooftop talking to some members of the Justice League. Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Green Lantern are a little too cool for the Titans, and make them feel inadequate because they don’t have a superhero movie of their own. The heroes humbly discuss their ever-growing number of big-screen adaptations, and accuse the Titans of not being “real heroes” who are therefore undeserving of a movie. Naturally, the Titans want to be in a movie pretty badly.

The Titans are the same adorable characters we know from Teen Titans Go. They love food, they make funny faces, and they occasionally break into song. The Justice League by comparison kind of looks like the popular clique that’s too cool to hang out with the dorky Titans. The movie will also feature an unexpected cameo from Stan Lee.

It looks like Teen Titans Go: To The Movies doesn’t take itself too seriously, and a could act as a fun palate cleanser from all the dark and dramatic movies out these days.