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The acclaimed Lin-Manuel Miranda stage play Hamilton is coming to Disney+ on July 3, and the the first trailer has now arrived. The trailer provides a first look at Miranda as Alexander Hamilton and the rest of the cast, and it also confirms a PG-13 rating which is notable.

Hamilton the stage play features multiple instances of the word f**k, which would require it to be rated R. However, the trailer shows a PG-13 rating, which presumably means some–or all–of the F-bombs have been edited out. Miranda previously alluded to this.

“If we have to mute a word here or there to reach the largest audience possible, I’m OK with that, because your kids already have the original language memorized,” Miranda said in an interview. “I don’t think we’re depriving anyone of anything if we mute an F-bomb here or there to make our rating.”

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Among the numerous projects that EA has in development for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is a new Battlefield game that is due to launch in 2021. While the game has yet to be properly unveiled, EA’s top studios boss, Laura Miele, shared some of the first details about the game recently.

During EA Play Live 2020, Miele said she looks forward to seeing developer DICE once again raise the bar, adding that the team is making the new Battlefield something that’s never been seen before.

“Our studios are taking their crazy ambitious ideas and making them real,” she said. “Every console generation DICE sets the bar for excellence in audio and visual presentation. We are creating epic battles at a scale and fidelity unlike anything you’ve experienced before.”

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Pokemon Sword & Shield recently released the first of its two DLC packs, the Isle of Armor, introducing new and returning monsters alongside a new Wild Area for players to explore. But some players have run into a snag when purchasing the Season Pass that will let them access this new area–Sword and Shield have separate store pages, and it’s possible to buy the DLC for the version of the game that you don’t have.

This is an issue, as Nintendo of America’s support page specifies that the company is “unable to provide refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases.” However, this seems to have been a common enough issue with Pokemon that Nintendo might be taking a different approach.

In a tweet, Nintendo of America encouraged players who have purchased the wrong DLC pass to reach out. “If you mistakenly purchased the incorrect pass, please contact customer support,” the tweet reads.

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Ninjala is coming to Switch as a free-to-play title on June 24, and the game’s launch trailer shows off some of the frantic action you can expect in its eight-player battles. It also, for some reason, opens with a strange little homage to West Side Story.

The musical, which was adapted into a film in 1961 and is getting remade by Steven Spielberg, is about a clash between two teenage street gangs, and a love affair between members of opposing sides. While Ninjala also has warring gangs, it’s not clear whether the game’s Story mode will deal with any of the complex themes of the musical–although it seems unlikely.

The trailer also shows plenty of gameplay footage, so you can check out some examples of the unique powers each character will possess, and witness some intense brawls. Despite an aesthetic that looks like it’s inspired by Splatoon, the gameplay is clearly very different.

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Weta Digital, the effects studio owned by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and screenwriter Fran Walsh, is expanding. The New Zealand-based company has launched a new animation studio, and it will make original content for the first time in the outfit’s quarter-century history.

Prem Akkaraju has been named the CEO of Weta Animated. He is the co-founder of SR Labs with entrepreneur Sean Parker, who himself is a member of Weta Digital’s board of directors and an investor in the company.

Weta Animated will make original animated content for cinema and streaming, Weta said in a press release announcing the venture. Jackson and Walsh will write, produce, and direct “several” of the new animated projects at Weta Animated.

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Sir Ian Holm, the actor who portrayed Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy (among many other roles over his long career), passed away on June 19 at the age of 88. Tributes have poured in for the actor, and on June 20 Jackson himself weighed in on what made Holm special, and what his presence on the set of the Lord of the Rings trilogy meant to him.

Jackson, who posted his tribute on Facebook, opens by saying that Holm was “was such a delightful, generous man. Quiet, but cheeky, with a lovely twinkle in his eye.” He recalls being nervous about “working with such an esteemed actor” before shooting his beloved trilogy, but writes about how Holm “immediately put (him) at ease.” He recalls how Holm alerted him that he would “be trying different things in every take,” and that if he hadn’t given Jackson what he needed after five or six, he should give him specific direction.

“Incredibly his varied line reads and performances were all quite wonderful,” Jackson recalls. “He rarely needed direction. He gave us an amazing range of choices to select from in the cutting room.” He recalls how Holm enchanted a group of kids they were filming with during a long shoot with a lot of downtime by telling them stories between recording.

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Police cars have been removed from Epic’s hugely popular battle royale game Fortnite, players have noticed following the release of the Chapter 2, Season 3 update.

A source connected to the game told The Wall Street Journal that the removal of the cop cars was in response to the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minnesota. However, the source said Epic Games was not trying to make a “political statement” but was instead attempting to be “sensitive about the issues” going on the world today.

Earlier this year, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney spoke about politics in gaming. “If a game tackles politics (or: weighty social issues), it should come from the heart of designers through the game, and not from marketing departments seeking to profit from division,” he said.

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Is there golf on Mars? There is now. Desert Golfing, one of the best mobile games of the last decade, has just received a sequel, and it’s called Golf On Mars. The game is available now, and costs $3 on iOS and Android. It’s also coming to Steam on June 29, if you’d rather play with a mouse.

Developer Captain Games returns for the sequel, which once again serves up literally millions of holes, all pseudo-randomly generated–meaning that while every player will encounter the same holes, they’ve all been designed by the same algorithm.

You play with simple swipe aim controls, and the goal is, essentially, to go as far as you can with as few strokes as possible. Most players will aim to get their average down, but there’s no end goal–you can theoretically keep playing forever. The game is set in the year 2866 when Mars has been 35% terraformed, but don’t expect much of a narrative.

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In the fifth and final installment of WWE’s docuseries Undertaker: The Last Ride, on WWE Network, Undertaker (real name: Mark Calaway) said that the Boneyard Match he had with AJ Styles at WrestleMania 36 is April, which was a non-traditional fight filmed like a movie, was not only “storytelling at its finest” but also the “perfect ending” to his legendary 30-year plus career.

Though Undertaker isn’t totally ruling out an eventual return to the ring for a traditional final match, he said “If there was ever a perfect ending to a career, that right there was it.”

The booked match between Undertaker and Styles became a pre-filmed, cinematic encounter due to COVID-19 and the official nixing of WrestleMania 36’s giant venue, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The decision was then made to try something new with Undertaker, who was set to square off with AJ Styles. The two filmed for a day on a giant “graveyard” set, in a battle that involved a movie score, druid warriors, magic powers, and Undertaker riding off victorious on a motorcycle as a mix of his Deadman and American Badass personas.

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“If Vince [McMahon] was in a pinch, would I come back? I guess time will only tell there,” Calaway said. “In case of emergency, break glass, you pull out The Undertaker. I would have to consider that. Never say never, but at this point in my life and in my career I have no desire to get back in the ring.”

Of course, here Calaway in emphasizing that he has no interest in getting into a ring. He doesn’t say anything about possibly filming another cinematic match down the line.

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Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.