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Announced during Gen Con 2018, an official Horizon Zero Dawn board game is in the works. It is being developed by Steamforged Games, the same studio that made the Dark Souls board game.

Steamforged said that they’ve actually been developing the game since before Horizon Zero Dawn even released on PS4, and that they’ve been working directly with Sony and Guerilla Games for at least two years.

In fact, Steamforged even told us that Guerilla is referring to the board game as the next Horizon Zero Dawn game, and that while it’s not overly heavy on story, it is canon within that world. It will be set after the events of the video game and DLC, and feature main characters such as Aloy as event cards that can be encountered.

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The Batman will not be an adaptation of the Year One storyline, director Matt Reeves revealed.

While speaking to press after a TCA panel, per SlashFilm, Reeves said The Batman will tell a “very personal” and “defining” story about the titular superhero instead of being an origin movie.

“We are definitely not doing Year One,” Reeves said. “It’s just exciting to be focused very specifically on a tale that is defining for him and very personal to him.”

Reeves added the film will try to tell an emotional story while still staying true to what makes Batman so unique and beloved. The movie will also be noir-inspired, with Batman having to investigate a particular case.

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The Simpsons is already one of the longest-running TV shows in history, and it’s not coming to an end soon. Fox boss Dana Walden said recently that, while the show has not been officially renewed beyond Season 30, you can expect Fox to pick it up for even more.

“Down the line, what kind of decision is made, I can’t really speak to, but for the foreseeable future, there’s so much upside and benefit to having a great, Emmy Award-winning, smart, provocative, quality show,” she said during a Television Critics Association event, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s no consideration of not ordering more Simpsons.”

Walden teased that a “couple of years of episodes” of The Simpsons are already in production.

The Fox network and 20th Century Fox are set to separate when Disney’s acquisition of most of Fox is complete. The Simpsons will stay on Fox amid this shuffle, Walden said. When this change happens, The Simpsons will become a licensed TV show for Disney.

“As long as we’ve all been in business, networks have licensed shows they don’t have ownership of,” Fox boss Gary Newman said. “It is challenging, and I anticipate it will be challenging on The Simpsons. The Simpsons is so associated with Fox, and that association benefits both the network and the owner of the IP. … I feel confident Disney and Fox are going to find a way to both have an interest in that show.”

Finally, Walden addressed the Apu controversy. She said there have been conversations with the production team, including James L. Brooks, and it was decided that Brooks and his writing team will decide how to move forward. “I think they’ve treated the show and the characters on the show with such respect that we trust them to handle it in a way that will be best for their show,” she said. “I’m not sure yet what they’re going to do, but ultimately we decided that was their decision.”

The Simpsons recently passed 636 episodes, which beats Gunsmoke (635 episodes) to become the longest-running scripted TV series ever.

In other news related to The Simpsons, creator Matt Groening’s new show, Disenchantment, premieres on Netflix later this month. You can watch a trailer above.

When artists worry about what big corporations might do after they buy the rights to their creations, Disney’s Christopher Robin is exactly what they’re worried about. This live-action feature, directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland), takes the beautiful and distinctive creations of A.A. Milne and shoehorns them into the screenwriting skeleton of The Shaggy Dog, The Santa Clause and Nine Lives, even though that makes no sense for the characters.

Ewan McGregor stars as Christopher Robin, who as a boy had many adventures with the anthropomorphic animals and toys in The Hundred Acre Wood. There was Winnie the Pooh (voiced by Jim Cummings), a good-hearted and silly teddy bear, Tigger (Cummings again), a rambunctious toy tiger, and Eeyore (Brad Garrett), an extremely depressed donkey. There were also a bunch of other characters but the movie barely does anything with them.

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft

Wednesday’s Gen Con preview night was full of exciting announcements from tabletop behemoth Fantasy Flight Games, and while many people were anticipating news for games like Star Wars: X-Wing or the Game of Thrones board game, I was shaking with horrible anticipation for a different franchise under the Fantasy Flight umbrella.

Arkham Horror 2nd Edition is the game that hooked me into the pulpy world of Lovecraft and was my gateway into designer board games. So when Fantasy Flight revealed that the 3rd Edition would be so drastically different from the 2nd, I was conflicted. But after trying out the latest version at Gen Con, I am happy to say that it seems to have only enhanced the best aspects of what made this series so fantastic in the first place.

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It was recently discovered that Madden NFL 19, which is available now for EA and Origin Access subscribers before its public release, removed Colin Kaepernick’s name in the YG song “Big Bank” featured on the game’s soundtrack. The line is supposed to be “You boys all cap, I’m more Colin Kaepernick.” However, his name was scrubbed from the verse sung by Big Sean, leading to a really strange edit that caught the attention of pre-release players.

EA has now explained that it was an “unfortunate mistake.” According to EA, some of its developers did not believe they had the rights to Kaepernick’s name, so that’s why it was censored out of the song. EA indeed does not have the rights to Kaepernick, as he’s not signed to any NFL roster, but this doesn’t apply to the soundtrack.

“We messed up, and the edit should never have happened,” EA Sports said.

Kaepernick’s name will be added back with an update due out on August 6. “We meant no disrespect, and we apologise to Colin, to YG and Big Sean, to the NFL, to all their fans, and our players for this mistake.”

Kaepernick made international headlines in 2016 when, as the QB for the San Francisco 49ers, he sat during the national anthem. He told NFL media at the time that he did this in protest over the treatment of black people and people of color in the US.

EA Sports initially said Kaepernick’s decision to sit would be briefly mentioned by the Madden commentators in Madden NFL 17, but this apparently never happened.

Madden 19 officially launches on August 10, but EA/Origin Access subscribers can play a 10-hour trial right now. The premium edition then unlocks on August 7, while everyone can start playing on August 10. For more, check out GameSpot’s Madden 19 Review in Progress.

Warning: Full spoilers for Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger Season 1 finale below.

All throughout its first season, Cloak & Dagger attempted to do something Marvel hadn’t really tried before. And for the most part, that made Freeform’s first Marvel series a success.

While it is a younger-skewing comic book drama, the superhero/superpowers/vigilante aspects of the series were actually pushed to the background while the story focused instead on mature character stories told through the lens of real-world issues. That’s no small task, especially when the show is set in New Orleans, a city filled with fraught racial politics. But despite its younger audience, Cloak & Dagger never pulled any punches in telling authentic stories of a young, white blonde woman using her appearance to easily con people out of money while escaping any kind of consequences, vs. a young, black man who, despite coming from a very wealthy, high class family and always following the rules, constantly finds himself on the wrong side of law enforcement because of his race.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is not the only new entry in the series in the works. Activision announced a partnership with Chinese internet giant Tencent today to make a new Call of Duty mobile game for China. The name of the game has not been announced, but Activision said it will be an “original” game, which suggests it’s not a port of an existing title. Though it’s new, it will include characters, maps, modes, and weapons you’re already familiar with.

Tencent’s internal studio, Timi, is developing the game, not Activision. It’s set to launch in China “in the coming months.”

“We’re working closely with one of Tencent’s top mobile studios, Timi, to develop a fun and original Call of Duty experience that delivers superb gameplay and mechanics to mobile players,” Call of Duty executive Rob Kostich said in a statement. “Call of Duty has been the leading first person action experience around the globe for years and seeing that come to life on the mobile platform has been really exciting. We can’t wait for fans to play.”

For its part, Tencent boss Steven Ma said in a statement that the new Call of Duty game is “tailored to meet the interests and play styles of mobile players in China.”

We’ll report back with more details on the new Call of Duty mobile game for China as they’re announced. It’s not the first Call of Duty mobile game, as Activision already released a title called Call of Duty: Heroes that features notable characters from across the franchise.

As for Black Ops 4, the game launches in early October for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. You may not have to wait that long to check it out, however, as a beta starts this week on PS4.