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The first full-length trailer for the Dick Cheney movie Vice has landed, providing the first very good look at a transformed Christian Bale as George W. Bush’s controversial vice president.

Bale is almost unrecognisable, thanks to his latest shape-shifting effort. He told Yahoo that he gained 40 pounds, shaved his head, and bleached his eyebrows for the role, while co-star Steve Carrell said to Collider that Bale did exercises to make his neck thicker to look more like Cheney’s.

The result is stunning, as Bale certainly looks the part. He also successfully captures some of Cheney’s trademark mannerisms and his speaking style. Check out the trailer above.

This is just Bale’s latest physical transformation for a role. With a diet consisting of whiskey and cigarettes, he got down to just 120 pounds (54kg) for his role in 2004’s The Machinist before bulking up immediately to play Batman in Batman Begins the next year. Bale lost weight again for 2010’s The Fighter, in which he played accomplished-boxer-turned-crack-addict Dicky Eklund; he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for that role. Bale then put more than 40 pounds back on and grew his hair for the role of con artist Mel Weinberg in American Hustle.

Vice also stars Oscar winner Sam Rockwell as George W. Bush, Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney, and Steve Carrel as Donald Rumsfeld. It opens on Christmas Day.

Fallout 76 will feature Project Greek Island, the secret United States government bunker built underneath the Greenbier Resort located in West Virginia among the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is according to Xbox’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb, who was among those who attended a recent preview session of Fallout 76 at the Greenbrier Resort. Hyrb spoke briefly about the inclusion of Project Greek Island in Fallout 76 during the latest episode of his podcast.

He said it will be featured in the game in some capacity, but he did not share any further details. Whatever the case, The inclusion of the Greenbrier Resort and Project Greek Island makes a lot of sense for Fallout 76 given its subject matter.

President Dwight E. Eisenhower commissioned the bunker in 1958 amid growing concerns of a nuclear strike. Located about four hours from Washington D.C., the bunker was meant to house every member of the United States Congress in the event of nuclear fallout. It reportedly contained everything required to keep the lawmakers alive and capable of doing their jobs for an extended period of time.

Project Greek Island was exposed as part of a 1992 Washington Post report, and the government decommissioned it thereafter. It was never used.

Fallout 76 launches on November 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but you won’t have to wait until then to check it out. A pre-order exclusive beta starts later this month on all platforms (Xbox One users get in first), offering the entire game; and progress carries forward to the full game. Unlike previous games in the series, Fallout 76 is an always-online multiplayer game.

In other Fallout 76 news, Bethesda has confirmed that the game will not support cross-play. That’s notable because Sony just started allowing this for Epic’s Fortnite.

A new report reveals just how incredibly popular and lucrative Epic’s free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite is on mobile, and specifically Apple’s iOS. A report from SensorTower states the game has now made $300 million from its microtransactions on iOS since it launched 200 days ago on March 15. That’s a incredible achievement, but it’s not the fastest to $300 million on iOS. Niantic’s Pokemon Go holds that record, bringing in $300 million after just 113 days on Apple’s platform, according to SensorTower.

Perhaps a better comparison for Fortnite is the iOS edition of rival PUBG. It started selling extra content on April 15, around 173 days ago, and has made around $47 million since then.

The SensorTower report also compares Fortnite’s first 200 days to other popular games, and Epic’s battle royale game dominates. As you can see in the chart here, Fortnite grossed many millions more than games like Clash Royale, Honor of Kings, and Knives Out over their first 200 days.

Of Fortnite’s $300 million in revenue on iOS, about 65 percent of the spending came from the United States. Worldwide, the game is averaging about $1.5 million revenue per day, according to the report.

The report also shines a light on how important the launch of a new Season within Fortnite is for the game’s commercial success. The iOS version pulled in about $20 million in the past week since Season 6 started September 27, due in part to the launch of the new Battle Pass that includes various extras.

Elsewhere, the SensorTower report states that Fortnite’s Android version has brought in $60 million since it arrived on August 9. Combined with the iOS edition’s $300 million $360 million for iOS and Android.

Fortnite is also available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch, so the game’s total microtransaction revenue is surely significantly higher with all platforms accounted for.

While the Season 9 premiere of The Walking Dead might have seemed quieter and less action-packed than many of the show’s recent episodes–thanks to the end of the pesky war with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)–there was still plenty to see. The new episode caught viewers up on what’s been happening since the end of the show’s “All Out War” story and set the stage for a major Maggie (Lauren Cohan) arc, leading up to her departure from the show.

In the final moments of the episode, Maggie lets Rick (Andrew Lincoln) know that she’s ready for him to step aside and let her lead. Following that, she supervises the execution of Gregory (Xander Berkeley), who tried to have her assassinated. The moment shows the woman Maggie has grown into since being introduced in Season 2 of The Walking Dead.

And during a visit to the show’s Atlanta set, new showrunner Angela Kang explained to GameSpot and a small group of other outlets that it would also inform her final story on the show–for now.

“We had always planned to have this great story with Maggie this season, and I think we promised something,” she says. “You know, we wanted to pay off that promise. So we definitely have a very strong Maggie arc. Lauren, I think, has always been such a great actress for us, has done some spectacular work this season. As you’ve seen in the episodes but also in the episodes that are upcoming, there’s some stuff that just blew me away. And I’m just a pure fan.”

Still, while Maggie may be the focus of what is unfolding at Hilltop, the coming events will also be used to build up those around her to fill the void, once the episodes featuring Cohan have come to an end. “It also opens up some interesting opportunities for other characters when that character is gone for reasons that will be explained in the story,” she explained. “That’s part of the story going forward, what’s happening at Hilltop? And how do people deal with Maggie not being there?”

However, that doesn’t mean the show is preparing to kill off Maggie. Cohan has told us before that her story will be left open-ended, which is different than the send-off for The Walking Dead‘s other outgoing star Lincoln.

Cohan has said she’d like to be able to return to the show at some point, and Kang is confident that could happen. “I’ll say first of all that we still plan to tell more story with Maggie,” she said. “Lauren wants to, it just it will be a little subject to her schedule. But hopefully, we have her back next season.”

While there is no clear picture or when or if Cohan will be able to return to The Walking Dead, her exit date from the series has not been revealed. While she’s shot her final scenes for now, AMC has not announced when she or Lincoln’s final episodes will air.

It looks like some kind of announcement about the Call of Juarez franchise is on tap. The Call of Juarez Facebook page recently updated for the first time in more than five years with new images that could point to an upcoming announcement.

The game’s Facebook page added a banner of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger main character Silas Greaves with the tagline “Legends never die.” Another image shows Greaves standing over a canyon with the quote, “I haven’t been here in many years. Name’s Silas Greaves.”

Image credit: Call of Juarez on Facebook

That is a direct quote from the opening cinematic of 2013’s Gunslinger, a digital only game that introduced players to the gunslinger himself, Greaves. This quote, along with the art that shows Gunslinger’s stylised approach, seems to suggest the announcement could be about a Gunslinger sequel or remaster. No official announcements have been made yet, however.

The Call of Juarez franchise has spanned four games so far. The entries have included Call of Juarez (2006), Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (2009), Call of Juarez: The Cartel (2011), and the previously mentioned Gunslinger (2013), all of which have been developed by Polish studio Techland and published by Ubisoft.

In April this year, Techland bought back the rights to Call of Juarez from Ubisoft. At the time, Techland did not say anything about its future plans, but buying the rights was a strong suggestion that the studio wanted to do more with the franchise.

With the exception of The Cartel, which was set in the modern day, the three other Call of Juarez games existed in the Western genre and took place in the 1800s. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest on whatever Techland might be teasing.

The next big Western is Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2, which launches on October 26 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is expected to be one of the year’s biggest games, with some projecting it to sell more than 15 million copies.

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New York Comic-Con has almost come to an end, but Sunday offered up a few more panels for TV series, movies, and more. The YouTube Premium series Cobra Kai, held a panel to discuss what’s coming down the line for Season 2 of the series.

On the stage, stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, and screenwriters Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg discussed the first season of the series, while in the midst of shooting Season 2. They also revealed that there is a whole new–yet familiar set–coming to Season 2. A clip was shown at the event, and Heald provided setup for it. In it, the younger members of the cast give a tour of the Miyagi Dojo, a major set piece for the second season. Viewers saw Miyagi’s garden at the end of Season 1, and now Mr. Miyagi’s old home has been turned into a dojo. Obviously, this set piece will be the place where LaRusso trains his new students. It is completely empty inside, but the backyard is a place of serenity and peace, featuring trees, green grass, and a pond with water feature.

We learned that the next season Cobra Kai will debut sometime in the summer of 2019, and it will consist–like Season 1–of 10 episodes. However, the runtime for those episodes may be a bit longer, as Hurwitz explained the show “will be digging deeper on everybody.” Season 2 will expand a bit more on the younger generation we saw in the first season, but it will continue to have the same balance between the kids, Johnny, and Daniel.

Going into this new season, the writing team had a good idea of where they wanted to take the story. “We have multiple seasons planned out,” explained Heald, who also stated they had so much planned for different character arcs for Season 1 that they simply couldn’t pack it in. However, this show isn’t just trying to rekindle the love of Karate Kid with those who grew up with it. “It was important that a newer generation falls in love with this the same way we did,” Hurwitz stated.

There were plenty of questions for the cast and creators, particularly revolving around whether or not Daniel and Johnny will be fighting in Season 2. There wasn’t a direct answer, but it did seem like both men would be involved in fight sequences in the next season, but it wasn’t clear if it will be against each other.

Find out more about Season 2 of Cobra Kai when it hits YouTube Premium next spring.