2K has revealed a number of features that will be part of WWE 2K22, including the long awaited return of a general manager mode and a brand new mode in which you put together a faction of superstars from across every era of the WWE.

General Manager mode has not been seen in a WWE game since WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008, but it finally sees a return in WWE 2K22 under the new guise of MyGM. The mode will allow you to draft superstars, book matches, manage your contacts, and generally attempt to run the WWE. Creative Director Lynell Jinks notes that the journey of MyGM will see you “progressively working your way up from high school gyms to prime time TV.”

Where MyGM is the return of a fan favourite mode, MyFACTION is a brand new mode that’s a first for the WWE games. Your aim in this mode is to build a faction that rivals the likes of the nWO, The Hart Foundation, DX, and New Day. This is done by collecting, managing, and upgrading superstar wrestlers picked from every era of the WWE. Your squad of stars can then do battle in new game modes and challenges, supported by weekly events and challenges.

2K note that MyFACTION will make use of a virtual currency, but emphasise that it’s not required. “It is super important to note here that virtual currency does not offer any sort of competitive advantage, or put players in a play-to-win situation,” said art producer Christina Diễm Phạm. “The items you purchase with VC can also be purchased by MyFACTION points earned via gameplay.”

These two modes come alongside MyRISE mode, which allows you to experience the journey of a WWE Superstar from rookie to legendary, and the returning Universe mode. Creation Suit is also back, with “wild options and fantasy elements” and the ability to step into the ring anywhere in the world. Additionally, a new WWE 2K Showcase allows you to relive a legendary WWE Superstar’s most iconic matches.

All of this is built on a redesigned engine, with gameplay and animation rebuilt from the ground up. A new control scheme has also been implemented that 2K states allows for a more intuitive, controlled experience. “These updates enable folks to easily pick up and play while still allowing for higher skill expression,” says Diễm Phạm. “For less seasoned players our combo system enables you to string together lethal moves with ease. Faster response time and shorter lock outs means gameplay is faster and players learn a lot faster.”

WWE 2K22 is set to release in March 2022, and comes after the series was put on hold back in 2020 in order to allow extended development of the next game. No Mercy and Smackdown have been cited as influences for this latest entry in the series.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

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The latest patch for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has been released and, among a number of other changes, it adds ray-tracing for both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

As detailed by the development team on Reddit, the ray-tracing patch for Marvel's Guardian's of the Galaxy was released on PlayStation and Xbox consoles on November 17. A subsequent patch will also be coming to PC, however players there will need to wait until November 19 to see the benefits.

The ray-tracing options can be accessed in the game's video settings menu, where the feature can be toggled on and off. The feature comes alongside a number of bug fixes and general improvements, including improved performance for those playing the game on the original PS4, and adjustments to input sensitivity for players who have older Dualshock controllers that have fallen prey to wear and tear.

For those playing on Xbox Series S, there's good news too. The latest changes include an option to uncap the FPS on the console, allowing players to run the game between 30 and 60 FPS. It should however be noted that doing so may lead to a less stable framerate in some areas of the game.

As with the majority of post-launch updates, the latest patch also comes with a number of general bug fixes and performance improvements to the game – a full list of which can be read in the official patch notes over on Reddit should you wish. For more on Marvel's Guardian's of the Galaxy make sure to check out our review of the game where we awarded it an 8/10 calling it "a fun, no-frills single-player campaign full of cosmic comic book flavor." And if you've already played, be sure to check out our ending explained feature.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

The development team at Relic has revealed its roadmap for Age of Empires 4, detailing plans for the game throughout 2022 and beyond.

As announced in an article on the Xbox blog, Age of Empires developer Relic revealed that the game's next patch is set to come into effect this Winter – and it's likely to be a pretty significant one. The Winter 2021 Update will include over a hundred balance updates as well as some more general performance fixes.

Around the Winter update fans will also see a number of other changes that are being implementing based on player feedback following the game's launch. These include additional options to enable in-game scores, changes to the Chinese Dynasty user interface, and tweaks to the in-game minimap.

Following the launch of the game's Winter update, the next big update confirmed for the game looks set to take place in Spring 2022. During this period, Relic says that it will be launching Age of Empire 4's first set of mod tools, as well as a range of further balance updates and community-requested features including the Patrol move.

In addition to the features above, Spring 2022 will also kick off Ranked Seasons in Age of Empires 4. During the season, players will be able to compete against one another head-to-head in order to climb higher in the rankings. Those taking part in the Ranked game mode will also be able to earn a number of exclusive in-game rewards, which the publisher notes will be assigned based upon performance.

After this point, the roadmap for the game gets a little hazier, with no timeframe currently being offered for future changes. That being said, the Age of Empires team has confirmed that it is actively looking into a number of fan-requested changes to the game that it may look to implement across 2022 and beyond.

For more from Age of Empires 4, make sure to check out this piece detailing the strong start that the game made to life on Steam. Alternatively, if you're still on the fence about playing Age of Empires 4, then make sure to check out our review of the game where we awarded it an 8/10.

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The first two episodes will premiere on HBO Max on Thursday, Nov. 18.

Following in HBO’s tradition of greenlighting series that reveal the sexual habits of the current generation of young women to the masses — Girls, Insecure, Euphoria — HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls aims to do the same by charting the campus exploits of four disparate roomies attending the fictional Essex College in Vermont. What follows is perfectly warm and funny, although a bit less compelling than its predecessors.

Created by Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) and Justin Noble (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), the duo also wrote the pilot episode, "Welcome to Essex,” which wittily introduces a quad of freshman suite mates as they meet during moving-in day. Kim (Pauline Chalamet), Bela (Amrit Kaur), and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) are the ethnically, racially, and economically diverse strangers feeling one another out, while Leighton (Reneé Rapp) does her best Karen impression as the legacy placement who’s livid when she’s not rooming with her high school “besties” as planned.

As with most good comedies, it’s all about trope-busting, so all four girls have their unexpected background twists. Bela’s the horned-up, Indian virgin who is beyond ready to explore outside of her conservative family; Kim is the poor, naive work-study scholarship with a lot to learn, and Whitney is a Black senator’s daughter seeking her own attention as an exceptional soccer player, while also secretly sleeping with her coach. And Leighton’s many withholding issues are at least partially unpeeled and contextualized by an episode-ending reveal.

With exteriors shot on location at Vassar’s campus, the show captures the vibe of life on a venerable campus that’s now populated by a melting pot of faces and experiences. Each of the four leads have a lot of charisma and chemistry as these tentative friends, each executing Kaling and Noble’s fast-paced dialogue with their own sharp timing. Gratefully, the women are playing characters that all have interesting, messy lives outside of the suite. Kim is cluelessly working with non-white students in the coffee bar, while Bela desperately tries to ensure herself a spot in the campus comedy magazine by granting sexual favors, and Leighton reunites with her hottie brother, Nico (Gavin Leatherwood), which is her trusted ear and brutal truth speaker. All of them expand the world of the campus, creating an ensemble of recurring characters that makes the world richer and as realistically connected as any college campus ends up being.

However, if you showed up for the sex in the title, expect a lot of talk about it and the rather tasteful execution of it when it happens. Bela is clearly the most sexually frank of the four, which means she gets a lot of the choicest lines about it. But it’s clear this series is more interested in the comedic side of the deed rather than the explicit side of it, unlike Girls and Euphoria. Those series came out of the gate with full HBO shock and awe, showing the viewers just how the younger generation does the dirty, explicitly. They use the portrayal of sex to test boundaries with the older audiences watching, and to serve as a litmus test for exploring shifting moral boundaries, feminism, and taboos. The Sex Lives of College Girls is almost tame in comparison, but it certainly gives the four ladies somewhere to go as they test their boundaries on all fronts.