WWE Summerslam 2020 Live Review: The Fiend Wants Braun Strowman’s Universal Championship

It’s time for the biggest party of the summer. Every year, WWE celebrates the summer months with one of its largest shows, Summerslam. Even with the COVID-19 pandemic meaning no fans are able to be there live, this year is no different. Summerslam 2020 is loaded with big marquee matches, and it’ll all be happening within the ThunderDome, WWE’s new home inside Orlando, Florida’s Amway Arena.

With eight matches scheduled, including multiple championship bouts and one fight in which the loser has to leave WWE, there’s a lot on the line tonight. Naturally, GameSpot’s resident Wrestle Buddies, Mat Elfring and Chris E. Hayner, have many thoughts about it all and will be reviewing the show live, as it happens. Take a look at the card for WWE Summerslam below then make sure to keep coming back here for our thoughts on each match as they happen.

  • Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Randy Orton (WWE Championship)
  • The Street Profits (c) vs. Andrade & Angel Garza (Raw Tag Team Championship)
  • Dominik Mysterio vs. Seth Rollins (Street Fight)
  • Apollo Crews (c) vs. MVP (United States Championship)
  • Braun Strowman (c) vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (Universal Championship)
  • Sasha Banks (c) vs. Asuka (Raw Women’s Championship)
  • Bayley (c) vs. Asuka (Smackdown Women’s Championship)
  • Mandy Rose vs. Sonya Deville (Loser Leaves WWE match)

Summerslam kicks off at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT, with the pre-show beginning at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT. For up to the minute results, GameSpot has you covered.

An Asteroid is Headed Toward Earth Just in Time for – You Guessed It! – Election Day

If you weren’t already anxious about November 3, a hurtling space rock is headed our way to add to the chaos.

Not to fear though, the asteroid, named “2018VP1,” is only about the size of a truck (an estimated diameter of 1.8 to 3.9 meters per NASA data), and will likely burn up in the atmosphere a day before Election Day, on November 2.

It also only has an estimated 0.41% chance of being in the right trajectory to hit Earth anyhow.

“Asteroid 2018VP1 is very small, approximately 6.5 feet, and poses no threat to Earth,” a spokesperson for NASA told Business Insider. So nothing near the size of the planet killers featured in Michael Bay’s Armageddon or Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact.

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Apparently, 2018VP1, which holds a two-year orbit around the sun, has already had a few close calls with Earth dating all the way back to 1970.

Last week, on August 16, an SUV-size space rock (“2020 QG”) flew past our planet, per NASA. There are “hundreds of millions of small asteroids the size of 2020 QG, but they are extremely hard to discover until they get very close to Earth.”

Anyhow, if you’re really set on preventing Armageddon, remember to vote!

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Summer Games Done Quick Online Raises $2.3 Million For Charity

Summer Games Done Quick 2020 couldn’t go forward as it typically does because of the pandemic, and the organizers opted for an online-only format where streamers would speed through games at their homes. This didn’t slow down donations, however, as the week-long marathon brought in $2.3 million for Doctors Without Borders.

Viewership peaked at more than 107,000 during the week, which included runs of games like Demon’s Souls, Hollow Knight, Sonic Heroes, and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. There is an archive available on the official Games Done Quick YouTube channel if you want to watch or re-watch a particular run, with videos split up by game to make it easy.

With any luck, the Awesome Games Done Quick event scheduled for January 2021 will be able to take place the traditional way, with fans cheering each player on as they show off their skills. Still, the amount of money raised for charity during the most-recent event is extremely impressive when considering many are on a budget during the pandemic.

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Fall Guys Patch Notes: Big Update Pokes Fun At Players

Fall Guys is getting a new patch on PS4 and PC that aims to fix some of its biggest issues while also making the game fairer and less frustrating. Planned for this week, it addresses several different parts of the game and the patch notes even include a slight jab at players concerned with the Yellow Team’s dominance in team games.

The round-selection algorithm has been altered so it will now only pick team-based games when the team sizes can be equal, and the most-frequent crashing issues were addressed. Jump Showdown was one of the biggest targets for the patch, with a jump exploit and camera issues being fixed, and the Slime Climb will no longer let players grab certain obstacles.

On PS4, inverted control users can finally play the game with an X/Y axis setting as well as sensitivity settings. The UI should also run more smoothly on older PS4 systems, and the jump button’s binding can be changed for Japanese players to better match what other games use.

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