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With 2020 just about wrapped up and all its best games recognized in our annual Best Of awards, the team at GameSpot would like to help you anticipate what lies ahead by accurately predicting the future (or attempting to). 2021 is looking to be an exciting proving ground for new-generation consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, as they both enter the next phase after their recent launches. Will the year bring fantastic games and experiences that will push the new hardware toward exciting new heights? Or will we still have to wait a while before the heavy investment we made this past holiday season becomes worth it? And let’s not forget; Nintendo just might use this year to release the long-rumored upgrade to the Switch–we think as much, at least. Whatever may happen, time will tell (or we will in our predictions)!

In GameSpot’s annual prediction series, we’ve put our brains together to determine what could happen next year in the world of games. While our accuracy in predicting the future isn’t always on the mark, it still won’t stop us from speculating.

Below you can find our gaming predictions for 2021. No matter how plausible or absurd these predictions might be, these are what we believe will come true in some form next year.

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WWE is getting into gaming again, outside of Xavier Woods’ UpUpDownDown. On Tuesday, December 29, the company will launch the Superstar Gaming Series on the WWE Network, and it will pit WWE Superstars against celebrities in an assortment of games.

Launching across WWE’s social media platforms as well as on the Free Version of the WWE Network, it all kicks off at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT on Tuesday. The Superstar Gaming Series will feature WWE wrestlers The Miz, Liv Morgan, Adam Cole, Tyler Breeze, Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke and celebrities FaZe Adapt, Nick Eh 30, Lele Pons and Wale.

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One of the major announcements during the PlayStation 5 reveal stream earlier in 2020 was Final Fantasy XVI. With a lengthy trailer that set the mood and showcased a bit of gameplay, there was a lot to parse for the next mainline entry in the storied franchise. Many mainstays of Final Fantasy lore were put front and center, and you can catch glimpses of how this new game is building off of the series’ broader history and its recent past.

In addition to the relatively detailed reveal trailer, Square Enix also launched an official website that contains in-depth looks at FFXVI’s new world and characters to get you started on understanding the backstory. What’s notable about this entry, in particular, is that it’s being developed by Creative Business Unit III–which is the not-so-flashy name for the division behind the incredible MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. It’s promising given that Naoki Yoshida is leading production on FFXVI–he led the team behind the rebirth of FFXIV and continues to direct the MMO, which keeps getting better and is regarded as top-tier in its storytelling. FFXVI itself is being directed by Hiroshi Takai, who has a lengthy history with Final Fantasy and Square Enix, and he was even part of developing FFXIV’s reboot.

We’re still a ways away from the launch of FFXVI, but Yoshida-san has stated that a major reveal of new information on the game is coming in 2021. You can catch up on everything we know so far in the rest of this article. You should also check out our most anticipated games of 2021, or…you can read about how there’s never been a better time to get into FFXIV! Be sure to peep our roundup of 50 indie games you should have on your radar in 2021, too.

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Isn’t it a little funny that we’ve heard more about Elden Ring in 2020 from Xbox head Phil Spencer than from the actual developers behind the game? Developer From Software sure is keeping details about Elden Ring close to the chest, but we do know a bit about the upcoming game.

From Software is developing the game in collaboration with Game Of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, telling a story where you’re exploring an open world full of different kingdoms that are each ruled by a powerful entity. When you defeat a ruler, you gain their unique power–a system that sounds like (but isn’t confirmed to be) how you can acquire the abilities and weapons of Dark Souls bosses by transfiguring their souls.

When talking to GameSpot, Spencer said, “As somebody who’s played all of Miyazaki’s games over at least the last decade, [Elden Ring] is clearly the most ambitious game that he’s done. I mean, I love his games, but seeing some of the gameplay mechanics stuff that he’s tackling, he and the team are tackling this time, of the setting, working with another creator in terms of story. I love it.”

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A Mars lander may have detected clues to the formation of the red planet billions of years ago.

According to Science Mag, researchers studying NASA’s InSight spacecraft, which landed on the surface of Mars two years ago, have finally been able to detect some hints of boundaries in the rock, tens and hundreds of kilometers below the planet’s crust, which they say is surprisingly thin. The team also found the mantle to be of a cooler temperature than expected despite the planet’s molten iron core.

These new discoveries about Mars’ interior have led the team to believe that the planet once cooled itself through a kind of plate tectonics, following a pattern of “upwelling mantle rock and subducting crust” that resulted in Mars efficiently shedding heat. A scientist, who wasn’t involved in the mission, said these findings may present evidence of “a far more dynamic crust formation in Mars’ early days.”

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Ever since NASA’s InSight craft alighted on Mars, the seismometers have been running nonstop to measure and record details of marsquakes to garner more information about the planet’s internal composition and structure. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a quake larger than magnitude 4.5, which means the seismic waves haven’t been travelling as deep below the surface as researchers would want.

However, two moderate quakes, at magnitude 3.7 and 3.3, have been described as “treasure troves” for the mission. Science Mag notes that the waves from these quakes barrelled towards NASA’s lander, which recorded travel times. The offsets hinted at the “thickness of the crust” and suggested “distinct layers within it,” according to Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, a seismologist at the University of Cologne.

InSight’s data revealed that Mars could be made up of two or three layers, with the planet’s crust appearing thinner than Earth’s continental crust. Researchers calculated the outermost shell of the red planet to be just 20 or 37 kilometers thick, with a shallow layer beneath indicating a cooler mantle, encasing a liquid core of about 1800-kilometer radius (more than half the planet’s total diameter).

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Over the coming months, the InSight team, led by Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator and geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will continue its geological study of the red planet in an effort to record more accurate measurements from event detections and gain an even clearer picture of Mars’ multi-layered interior.

For other exciting space discoveries and developments, read about how NASA’s Mars rover transported 10.9 million names to the red planet for a campaign, find out about the astronomers that discovered a new method to detect potentially habitable planets, and discover all of the details about the mini-moon that was found to be orbiting Earth earlier this year.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.