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The Kickoff Show for Evolution is over, and there were no matches during the pre-show. This is WWE’s first-ever all-women’s PPV, and it is now under way. Check out the results live, posted below as they happen.

WWE is about to make history, as the sports entertainment company will be hosting its very first all-women’s PPV today, Evolution. The monumental show will take place at NYCB Live in Uniondale, New York, and it will feature superstars from the past and present.

Evolution’s main card begins at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, with a Kickoff Show starting one hour prior. There has not been a bout announced for the Kickoff Show, but there’s a good chance one will be added last minute. Renee Young, Paige, and Beth Phoenix will host the pre-show, and then Young and Phoenix will join Michael Cole for commentary during the main card.

There is a lot on the line for this major event. The Raw, Smackdown, and NXT women’s titles are all on the line, and Evolution will host the finals of the Mae Young Classic, as Toni Storm takes on Io Shirai. Additionally, there is a battle royal with more than 20 superstars, and the winner of that match will get a future title shot. In total, there are seven matches on the main card for Evolution, which you can watch on the WWE Network.

For more on Evolution, check out our predictions, the history of the women’s revolution, every woman on the roster ranked, and the best women’s matches of all time.

The matches for Evolution, below, may not happen in the order listed. In case you’re not caught up, don’t worry; we put the final results in spoiler blocks.

Evolution Match Card:

• Battle Royal
• Sasha Banks, Bayley & Natalya vs. The Riott Squad
• Toni Storm vs. Io Shirai (Mae Young Classic 2018 Finals)
• Kairi Sane (c) vs. Shayna Baszler (NXT Championship)
• Trish Stratus & Lita vs. Alexa Bliss & Mickie James
• Becky Lynch (c) vs. Charlotte Flair (Last Woman Standing Match for the Smackdown Championship)
• Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Nikki Bella (Raw Championship)

Entrants in the Battle Royal:

• Asuka
• Naomi
• Carmella
• Nia Jax
• Ember Moon
• Alicia Fox
• Dana Brooke
• Lana
• Billie Kay
• Peyton Royce
• Mandy Rose
• Sonya Deville
• Tamina
• Torrie Wilson.
• Michelle McCool
• Alundra Blayze
• Ivory
• Molly Holly
• Kelly Kelly
• Maria Kanellis
• Zelina Vega

Main Card Start Times (Kickoff begins one hour prior)

• 10 AM AEDT (Oct. 29)
• 11 PM GMT
• 7 PM ET
• 6 PM C
• 4 PM PT

Kickoff Show

No matches during the Kickoff Show.

Main Card

Updating…

It was over 35 years ago that John Carpenter had what he thought would be his final word on the Halloween franchise. After directing the original film, co-writing the first two, and co-producing Halloween II and III, he was ready to move on with his life. And he did, directing films like Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from LA, and Village of the Damned.

Yet, somehow, 40 years after the first film, John Carpenter is right back where he started in the fictional town of Haddonfield, once again haunted by the ghost of Michael Myers. It might be a place he never expected to be, but it’s one that probably wouldn’t exist without him in 2018.

Speaking to GameSpot, producer Jason Blum said he wasn’t interested in making a new Halloween movie without Carpenter. “When we went to Miramax and said they wanted us to do the movie, I did not want to make the movie unless John was going to be involved,” he admitted.

According to Blum, Miramax thought it would be impossible to get the original film’s director interested. “They said to me, ‘We’ve asked John, and he’s not interested,'” he recalled.

In the end, though, Carpenter became interested, and it was all due to a simple conversation. “I went to his office, and I sat with him, and I made my pitch, and he politely listened,” Blum explained. “And I said ‘Well, let me put it another way. They’re gonna make it with or without us… because if you don’t do it, I’m not gonna do it, so why don’t we join them and see if we can make it well and make something that we’re proud of.'”

As the story goes, that’s all it took to convince John to return to the one property his career is most synonymous with. And fans should be glad that’s how it all played out. As Blum told GameSpot during the film’s junket, without him it’s possible Jamie Lee Curtis might not have returned as Laurie Strode.

Without Carpenter and Curtis, it’s impossible to imagine this movie turning out as great as it did. Now, thanks to them–and everyone involved–Halloween looks ready to rule the box office once again. The new Halloween film is in theaters on October 19.

Before you see the film, make sure to check out our definitive ranking of every Halloween movie, as well as our review of the newest installment. Then, if you want to jump back in time, we’ve also gathered the franchise’s most brutal kills.

Bethesda’s Pete Hines has some strong, bold words for where he wants to see games go in the future. During a PAX Aus panel today, Hines said he believes the gaming industry would benefit from moving away from the idea of platform exclusives. No one buys physical media like a DVD or Blu-ray and worries about having the necessary hardware to play it, and Hines would like to see that model in games.

“I think you’re going to see platforms get more homogenised,” he said. “Because truthfully, there’s really not a reason for [competing consoles] to be different. You don’t buy a DVD and then worry about which DVD player you have. You just buy a DVD and anything that plays DVDs works. And I think games are going to start to move closer and closer to that.”

Hines said he sees a future where you buy a game and play it on whatever platform you want.

“You might decide to play it on the Sony machine or the Microsoft machine or use the Google [streaming] service, but it will start–I think–to look more like it really doesn’t matter what you choose to play it on,” he said. “You just want to play this game on the thing you choose to play your games on whether that’s because where your friends are or whatever. Things like cross-platform play, cross-platform progression, all of that stuff.”

“We as an industry need to start to move to not be so beholden to, ‘I only make a thing for that machine and not this one.,'” he added. “The faster we get to that the better it’ll be for developers, the better it’ll be for games. I think we as an industry–because we need to–are going to move less toward differentiation–‘Why is a thing better on one platform than another’–and more toward I just want to make a thing that everybody can play. Because that’s ultimately what’s going to get you the most players; that’s what’s going to get devs the most money and reach the most fans.”

Hines’ comments seem to fall in line with the rumours about new consoles like the Xbox Scarlett system and others placing more of an emphasis on streaming. In the movie, TV, and music business–which is now dominated by digital and streaming–the content you purchase generally is able to move with you to whatever new piece of hardware from any supplier that you buy. There are those in gaming who believe game streaming–the “Netflix of games”–is going to be a very big deal very soon. Sony already operates in that space with PlayStation Now, while Microsoft is working on a game-streaming service of its own. EA is also working on a game-streaming network.

Platform-exclusives like God of War for PS4 an Forza Horizon 4 on Xbox One are largely marketing vehicles to help sell consoles. If you want to play God of War, you need to buy a PS4. There is no other way to play it. But if streaming picks up and platform-holders relax their policies, that could result in major changes in where and how people play games. Google’s Project Cloud streaming service is already showing with Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey that you don’t need a console to play the newest, best-looking games.

Hines has already teased that he knows something about new consoles, so he very well might have been alluding to the capabilities of those systems, though nothing is confirmed. Intriguingly, the CEO of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, has made very similar comments to what Hines said today. During a presentation recently, Zelnick talked about how the “closed system walls” that exist between Microsoft, Sony, and others need to come down. He didn’t mention new consoles by name, but it makes sense that he is among those who would be briefed on new hardware before it’s announced.

“The closed system walls are coming down, and they have to,” he said. “Streaming is going to accelerate those walls coming down. We’re all here for the consumers. If you’re going to create rules that don’t benefit the consumers but somehow you think benefit your enterprise, you’re mistaken. Consumers will go elsewhere. You have to pay attention to what the consumer wants.”

What do you think about the future of gaming as it relates to streaming and being able to play anywhere you want? Let us know in the comments below!