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It’s almost time for another WWE PPV, and if you’ve been keeping up with the product, you’ve probably noticed what I’m calling “the great divide” between Raw and Smackdown. However, said divide revolves around the quality of storytelling and not a string of mountain ranges separating two sides of the country.

Smackdown has been fantastic, setting up compelling, fun storylines that all lead to TLC–normally, a throwaway PPV. And Raw has been… Well, it’s the worst it’s been in a long time. Nothing makes sense on that show aside from Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose.

This year’s TLC PPV is coming to the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday, December 16 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT, with a Kickoff Show beginning one hour prior. You can see the event for yourself on the WWE Network or on PPV through your cable or satellite provider.

Here’s what is currently planned for TLC:

• R-Truth & Carmella vs. Jinder Mahal & Alicia Fox (Finals of MMC Season 2)
• Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton (Chairs Match)
• Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Cedric Alexander (Cruiserweight Championship)
• Elias vs. Bobby Lashley (Ladder Match)
• Finn Bálor vs. Drew McIntyre
• Natalya vs. Ruby Riott (Tables Match)
• The Bar (c) vs. The New Day vs. The Usos (SmackDown Tag Team Championships)
• Becky Lynch (c) vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka (Triple Threat TLC Match For The Smackdown Women’s Championship)
• Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Nia Jax (Raw Women’s Championship)
• Braun Strowman vs. Baron Corbin (TLC Match)
• Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dean Ambrose (Intercontinental Championship)
• (The New) Daniel Bryan (c) vs. AJ Styles (WWE Championship)

Make sure to come back to GameSpot on Sunday, December 16 for live coverage of the event and a review TLC after it’s all over.

While Fortnite‘s Battle Royale mode gets much of the attention, the game’s Save the World mode is not being forgotten. The recent 7.0.0 patch introduced the game’s first major boss, The Storm King, with the final act of the Canny Valley campaign. GameSpot can confirm that Epic hired gaming veteran Cris Velasco (Overwatch, Darksiders 3) to compose 20 minutes of new music for the new chapter of Save the World.

Velasco recorded the music with a live orchestra in Los Angeles with the professional recording company Cinema Scoring. Velasco tells GameSpot that Fortnite is probably his biggest project yet, adding that the pillars of the Storm King himself–“huge, terrifying, and exciting”–match up well with the music he likes to make.

“I’ve had the fortune to work on some big franchises over the years, but I don’t think any of them have had the same popularity as Fortnite does. So I was extremely excited to have been asked to write music for Season 7,” he said.

“The Storm King was such a great canvas to compose for. Huge, terrifying, and exciting–just the kind of music I love to write! We recorded the score in LA with Cinema Scoring, who really helped bring life to the music and the wintery terror that the Storm King exudes. It also doesn’t hurt that I’ve now earned the prize of ‘coolest uncle’ from my niece and nephew.”

In other Fortnite news, the game’s battle royale mode recently launched the much-anticipated Season 7. Among other things, it adds a new, wintry area to the map, the new Infinity Blade sword weapon, and a new X-4 Stormwing airplane to find on the map and fly.

Even more changes came to Fortnite with the 7.01 release update that just launched this week–see the patch notes here.

Driving across the country in real life has its perks, but let’s be honest: there’s also a lot of down time. The Crew 2 is a racing game that cuts out the boring parts as you travel at unsafe speeds from coast to coast, using vehicles that go on the road, in the water, and through the air. There’s nothing else quite like it on the market, and it’s free to play December 13-17 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

The only catch is that console owners will need either a PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold subscription to take part in the free-play weekend. If you have a gaming PC, you don’t need any subscription to play the game for free, and you can pre-load it now via Uplay. The free trial makes the full game available to players, including PvP mode as well as the new Demolition Derby mode.

If you decide to purchase the full game after trying it out, any progress you make will carry over. You’ll also be able to buy any digital version of The Crew 2 at a discount. To sweeten the pot even further, Ubisoft is throwing in a free in-game car for anyone who participates in the free weekend. The car you get depends on your platform of choice.

• Xbox One: BMW Z4 GT3 2011
• PlayStation 4: Maserati Gran Turismo S 2009 – Touring Car Edition
• PC: Ford GT 2005 – Touring Car Edition

For more information about The Crew 2’s free-play weekend, you can check out the Ubisoft blog.

Now that Batwoman has arrived and added a new hero to the Arrow-verse–not to mention a location in Gotham City–there are some questions we need to think about. The CW’s superhero programming block is already jam-packed thanks to Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Black Lightning. Is there room for yet another hero next season?

To figure that out and take a deep dive through everything we learned about Batwoman in the “Elseworlds” crossover event, GameSpot teamed up with TV Guide for a roundtable discussion about whether a Batwoman show should happen and what it might entail. Luckily, thanks to “Elseworlds,” we already know quite a bit.

First and foremost, this is a Gotham City that has been abandoned by Batman for one reason or another. In his place, Bruce Wayne’s cousin Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) is suiting up at Batwoman to protect what’s left of an already devastated city. Also still populating the city, from cells at Arkham Asylum, are the likes of Riddler, The Penguin, Poison Ivy, Clayface, and Nora Fries just to name a few. What stood out in the Gotham-centric “Elseworlds” installment as Easter eggs and open doors to many notable Batman villains and elements fans of the comics will find familiar.

It’s, honestly, a remarkable amount of world-building done in a single one-hour episode of TV. What’s more, as those who saw the end of “Elseworlds” know, this entire event was all building to next year’s crossover, “Crisis on Infinite Earths”–which will include Batwoman and one of the Gotham City foes introduced.

With so much time spent introducing the world of Kate Kane, it already seems like a foregone conclusion that we’ll definitely be seeing a lot more of her in the future. Will she get her own show, though? That’s something we’ll have to wait to find out. In the meantime, join GameSpot and TV Guide in dreaming for the day that happens.

December is officially here, which means 2018 is winding to a close. This year has seen some great games come out across PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch, but while most of the year’s biggest titles have already been released, there are still a handful of noteworthy games on the way this month to close out the year in appropriately grand fashion.

Headlining December’s releases are new installments in the Just Cause and Super Smash Bros. series, as well as a new pair of spin-offs of Atlus’s beloved Persona franchise. Those certainly aren’t the only notable releases, however. This month also sees some high-profile games arrive on new platforms, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which expanded to PS4 on December 7. An HD remaster of the PS2 classic Katamari Damacy also rolled onto PC and Nintendo Switch this month, while the Dark Souls-inspired Ashen hit Xbox One and PC.

That’s only a small glimpse at this month’s releases. You can see all of the biggest games on the way for each platform in December 2018 below. For a look back at all of the most notable releases from the past year, check out our complete list of game release dates in 2018, and be sure to follow our Best of 2018 hub for our picks on the year’s best games and other highlights.

Just Cause 4 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) — December 4

Kicking off the month is Just Cause 4, which launched on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on December 4. This installment in the over-the-top action series takes protagonist Rico Rodriguez to the lush South American country of Solis, where the intrepid hero must once again thwart the plans of the sinister militant group, The Black Hand. Developer Avalanche Studios has amplified the action even more for this entry, expanding Rico’s arsenal with new gadgets and an upgraded grappling hook. But the biggest addition to the game is the extreme weather system, which presents a whole new kind of challenge for Rico to overcome.

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Persona 3: Dancing In Moonlight & Persona 5: Dancing In Starlight (PS4, Vita) — December 4

The Persona series is certainly no stranger to spin-offs, and its latest pair of offshoots, Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, arrived in the West on PS4 and Vita on December 4. In the vein of Person 4: Dancing All Night, each title is a rhythm game featuring characters and music taken from their respective numbered installments. Both games also feature a slew of costumes and accessories to unlock for the characters, as well as support for PlayStation VR.

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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch) — December 7

Nintendo’s long-running mascot fighting series makes its Switch debut with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Featuring the largest roster in the franchise to date, Ultimate brings back every character who has ever appeared in a Smash Bros. game and introduces a handful of unexpected newcomers, including Castlevania’s Simon and Richter Belmont and Animal Crossing’s Isabelle. The game also boasts more than 100 stages, 900 music tracks, and an extensive array of Spirits–new collectible video game characters that grant your fighters stat boosts and abilities when equipped.

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Full December Release Schedule

Game	Platform	Release Date
Just Cause 4	PS4, Xbox One, PC	December 4
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom	PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch	December 4
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden	PS4, Xbox One, PC	December 4
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight	PS4, PS Vita	December 4
Persona 4: Dancing All Night	PS4	December 4
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight	PS4, PS Vita	December 4
Ashen	Xbox One, PC	December 7
Hello Neighbor: Hide & Seek	PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch	December 7
Katamari Damacy Reroll	Switch, PC	December 7
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds	PS4	December 7
Sega Genesis Classics	Switch	December 7
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Switch	December 7
Dusk	PC	December 10
Guacamelee 2	Switch	December 10
Desert Child	PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch	December 11
Earth Defense Force 5	PS4	December 11
Prey: Typhon Hunter	PS4, Xbox One, PC	December 11
Spyro + Crash Remastered Game Bundle	PS4, Xbox One	December 11
Dragon Marked for Death	Switch	December 13
Gris	Switch, PC	December 13
Firewatch	Switch	December 17

Lucasfilm has officially announced the cast for The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars TV series. Pedro Pascal, previously speculated to play the title role, has been confirmed to be the Mandalorian warrior the show is about, and he’s being joined by quite the talented cast.

Pascal is best known for portraying Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones, but he’s also starred in Kingsman: The Golden Circle and Netflix’s Narcos. In a blog post, StarWars.com confirmed he would be joined by Gina Carano (Deadpool), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers (Predator), Omid Abtahi (American Gods), Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), and Nick Nolte (Affliction).

“We’re having a great time working with this incredibly talented group and excited for everyone to see what we’re up to,” said The Mandalorian writer and executive producer Jon Favreau. Individual directors–including Thor Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi, Jessica Jones’ Deborah Chow, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rebels’ Dave Filoni–have been signed on to head individual episodes in The Mandalorian. There are plans for The Mandalorian to be followed by another Star Wars series that will see the return of Diego Luna as Cassian Andor, the character he played in Rogue One.

The Mandalorian takes place prior to The Force Awakens, long after the legendary career of Boba Fett. The series follows Pascal’s character, a lone gunfighter on the run from the law of the New Republic. The Mandalorian launches on Disney+, the company’s upcoming subscription-based streaming service, next year. Another season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars–previously assumed to be cancelled forever–is also scheduled to come to the service.