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Real life MLB action just ended, with the Red Sox defeating the Dodgers to win the World Series. The season starts back up again in late March, and now Sony has announced some of the first details on the next entry in the MLB The Show franchise.

MLB The Show 19 will launch on March 26, 2019 for PS4, and young slugger superstar Bryce Harper will be on the cover. While Harper has been announced as the cover star, the final box art isn’t ready yet because Harper hasn’t confirmed where he’s going to play next.

Harper has spent his entire professional career as the right fielder for the Washington Nationals. He’s now a free agent, however, and is expected to sign a lucrative contract with a new team in the weeks or months to come. Once that deal is done, you can expect Sony to update the cover art for MLB The Show 19 with Harper’s decision.

For now, we’ve got Harper in a hoodie.

MLB The Show 19 will be available in a Standard Edition ($60 USD) and a Gone Yard Edition ($100) that is exclusive to GameStop and EB Games. It comes with a New Era baseball snap back cap, a copy of the game, in-game extras, and more. A $100 Digital Deluxe edition will also be available; some of its extras include an allotment of Stubs, custom avatars, and more. An MVP Edition ($70), meanwhile, includes a series of digital extras and a steelbook case if you’re picking up the physical edition. Everyone who pre-orders any edition of MLB The Show 19 gets extra in-game digital content.

No gameplay footage or images from MLB The Show 19 have been released yet, but keep checking back with GameSpot for more between now and launch.

The new Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody opened this past weekend, and it is off to a hot start. The music biopic starring Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury made around $50 million over the November 2-4 weekend in the US and Canada, according to Entertainment Weekly. That’s the second-biggest opening weekend for a music biopic in the history of film, only behind Straight Outta Compton, which made $60.2 million for its opening back in 2015.

Industry estimates stated that Bohemian Rhapsody would make only $40 million at the most for its opening, so the final results are nicely ahead of that. The movie made around $72.5 million from international markets this weekend, boosting its global haul to $122.5 million. That’s a nice result right out of the gate, as Bohemian Rhapsody had a budget of $52 million.

Bohemian Rhapsody was initially going to feature Sacha Baron Cohen in the lead role, but he dropped out all the way back in 2013 reportedly due to creative differences with the surviving members of Queen. Mr. Robot star Rami Malek would eventually get the role.

Director Bryan Singer was fired during production with Malek; the two apparently clashed, with Malek said to have complained about him to studio bosses. Dexter Fletcher, who directed the musical movie Sunshine on Leith, came to finish Bohemian Rhapsody, though Singer remains the only credited director on the project.

Bohemian Rhapsody doesn’t start at the beginning of Mercury’s live, but instead covers a period of 15 years when Queen was on the rise and then its comeback and performance at Live Aid 1985. In addition to Malek as Mercury, the movie stars Gwilym Lee as the iconic guitarist Brian May, while Ben Hardy plays drummer Roger Taylor, and Joe Mazzello portrays bassist John Deacon.

For more on Bohemian Rhapsody, check out GameSpot sister site CNET’s review.

US/Canada Box Office November 2-4

1. Bohemian Rhapsody — $50 million
2. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — $20 million
3. Nobody’s Fool — $14 million
4. A Star Is Born — $11.1 million
5. Halloween — $11 million
6. Venom — $7.9 million
7. Smallfoot — $3.8 million
8. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — $3.7 million
9. Hunter Killer — $3.5 million
10. The Hate U Give — $3.4 million

Fortnite‘s Halloween event, Fortnitemares, is now over and it culminated in a pretty spectacular event. Developer Epic Games previously said that the event would be one-time only, and those that were present got to experience something pretty weird. At the center of it all was the mysterious cube affectionately known as Kevin. The purple cube appeared towards the end of Season 5 and has been a constant presence in Season 6 up until this point.

As part of Fortnitemares, the cube began spawning zombie-like creatures that players had to battle against in the Battle Royale mode. As Fortnitemares came to a close, however, Kevin–suspended in mid-air–began to spin, gathering energy, and eventually exploding. There was a flash of white and players in the area were transported into a strange realm of light.

Players floated in the air and, beneath them, what looked like the veins of this weird light realm collected into the center, which was a well of pearlescent light. Another source of light above everyone began to glow, and eventually it manifested as butterflies made of glass shards. They landed on players and a few seconds later everyone was transported back to the island.

Now, the vortex that was in the middle of Loot Lake is no longer there. In its place is a small landmass where a collection of stones stand. It looks kind of like Fortnite’s version of Stonehenge. Thus far, nothing else seems to have changed in any noticeable way. However, we expect the new area in the middle of Loot Lake holds its fair share of secrets, and Epic will be using it quite a lot in the coming weeks. You can watch the entire event happen in the video above, and check out the screenshots to see it too.

We reckon players will be taking regular trips to the new location as part of Season 6’s remaining weekly challenges. Although it’s too late to complete the Fortnitemares challenges now, you can still catch up on all the other challenges in the season so far. To make things easier, check out our Fortnite Season 6 challenges guide, where you’ll plenty of information that’ll help you complete all of the challenges Epic has released this season to date.