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Star Wars Battlefront‘s Death Star expansion came out on September 20 for people who own the game’s season pass. As with all Battlefront expansions, season pass-owners get a two-week headstart. Two weeks have now passed, so starting today anyone can buy the expansion, which is priced at $15.

As of 7:15 AM ET, the Death Star content is not yet available to buy on Xbox One. It should come be out on all platforms later today. We’ll update this post when that happens.

Death Star is Battlefront’s third paid expansion, following Outer Rim and Bespin. The fourth and final one, Rogue One: Scarif, comes out this holiday; it is based on the upcoming movie. The Death Star expansion added five new maps and the Battle Station mode that basically lets you recreate the scene from A New Hope where Luke Skywalker blows up the Death Star. There are also more weapons and Star Cards, while Chewbacca and Bossk have been added as hero characters.

Additionally, Battlefront’s level cap has been raised to 90. A patch released alongside Death Star in September also made a number of hero/villain changes and fixed a lot of bugs. You can see the full patch notes here.

In other Battlefront news, the servers for all platforms were updated in the past day to improve the stability of larger game modes. The patch also fixed an unspecified credits exploit, EA wrote in its forums.

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Grand Theft Auto V expands today with new biker DLC for its multiplayer mode, GTA Online.

The update is out now and weighs in at around 2 GB. Similar to past GTA Online expansions, it’s only available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

As announced previously, GTA Online’s free biker gang expansion introduces the ability to found a motorcycle club and take part in new missions with your fellow members.

New competitive and cooperative gameplay modes are included, though they have not been detailed. The expansion also adds more vehicles, weapons, and clothing. One of the new bikes Rockstar has shown off is the Western Rat Bike, which you can see in the gallery above, along with other images from the expansion.

Players can join up with up to eight other people to form a club, and there will be different roles such as prospects and presidents. Prospects will need to earn the president’s respect in order to get promoted within the ranks.

Using the MC Clubhouse properties, bikers will be able to interact with a special biker mechanic, but as of yet it’s unclear what new functions this character will provide.

All of GTA V’s DLC to date has been for GTA Online. Rockstar has said single-player DLC is still under consideration, though no announcements have been made.

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James Cameron’s live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga classic Battle Angel: Alita is continuing to add more names to its cast. Following the news that Spectre star Christoph Waltz was joining the film, it has now been reported that Mahershala Ali, who plays the villainous Cottonmouth in Marvel’s Luke Cage, is in talks for a role.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ali is in negotiations to join the movie’s cast. Ali can be seen as gang boss Cottonmouth in Luke Cage, which hit Netflix last week. He also played Remy Danton in House of Cards, and appeared in both parts of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.

Battle Angel: Alita is to be directed by Sin City‘s Robert Rodriguez, with Cameron producing and writing. Cameron intended to direct the movie for many years, but last year handed over the reins to Rodriguez, who is also known for the likes of From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado, and the Spy Kids movies. Rosa Salazar (The Maze Runner), Jackie Earl Haley (Watchmen), and Ed Skrein (Deadpool) have also been cast in the movie.

Last year, Cameron told Variety: “Robert and I have been looking for a film to do together for years, so I was pumped when he said he wanted to do Battle Angel. He’s very collaborative and we’re already like two kids building a go-kart, just having fun riffing creatively and technically.

“This project is near and dear to me, and there’s nobody I trust more than Robert, with his technical virtuosity and rebel style, to take over the directing reins. We’re looking forward to learning a lot from each other while we make a kick-ass epic.”

Battle Angel: Alita is the futuristic story of an amnesiac cyborg who becomes a deadly bounty hunter. It was first published in 1990, and ran for nine volumes until 1995. In 1993, a two-episode anime version was produced, which adapted the first two volumes of the manga.

While Fox are yet to announce a release date for the movie, THR has previously stated that the studio is aiming for July 2018.

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