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Need for Speed Payback is one step forwards and two steps back for EA’s 23-year-old racing series. While Payback does fix a host of the 2015 Need for Speed reboot’s missteps, it also brushes away a lot of the stuff developer Ghost Games got right at that time.

You see, Need for Speed 2015 brought with it a resurrection of the spirit of 2003 and 2004’s successful Underground games and saw the return of meaningful performance and visual customisation. Between all the hokey live-action, first-person fist-bumping it also revolved around encounters with real-world automotive icons. That’s an idea I still genuinely like. Of course, it was very short, the world was largely empty, there initially wasn’t any drag racing, and you couldn’t even pause the game in single-player. It was flawed, no doubt.

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Blizzcon took place over the weekend, and teams from around the world descended upon the convention to compete in Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, WoW Arena and Hearthstone. Team Australia, competing in the Overwatch World Cup, was our best shot at success at the show. The CGPL Spring Finals featured some awesome games between local teams, and the League of Legends World Championships wrapped up in spectacular fashion.

Make sure you check out the rest of the esports hub! Remember you can email tips to me esportsau@ign.com or you can just click to send me an email. If you want, you can tweet suggestions at me as well, my twitter is down the bottom of this article.

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The speculation that Watch Dogs and Assassin’s Creed take place in the same universe is essentially a meme at this point. After all, they’re both freerunning-focused, open-world, stealthy Ubisoft games featuring main characters who obscure their faces in pretty conspicuous ways. But in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Ubisoft gave fans the clearest sign yet that this is more than just speculation.

Minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed: Origins ahead.

In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, the CEO of Abstergo Industries is named Olivier Garneau. He plays a fairly major role in the modern-day sections, before departing for Chicago. In the first Watch Dogs–set in Chicago–Garneau then appears as an Easter egg in a side mission, during which main character Aiden Pearce can kill him.

As reported by Eurogamer, in Assassin’s Creed: Origins, if you delve into the laptop during the modern-day sections, you can unearth a security-cam photograph of Pearce standing over the body of Garneau. This strengthens the connection between the two game worlds, even if it is still just a fun nod from Ubisoft. It also keeps the slim hope alive for a real Assassin’s Creed/Watch Dogs crossover one day.

In other news, Assassin’s Creed: Origins recently received an update that fixes bugs and adds a photo mode. The game was generally well-received when it launched at the end of October; GameSpot gave it a 7/10, with critic Alessandro Fillari writing, “Assassin’s Creed has undergone many changes in its long and storied history, and Origins feels like the first step in the start of a new journey. It has its fair share of problems, but the vision for its future is one worth pursuing.”

It won’t be much longer until we learn more about Injustice 2’s next fighter pack. NetherRealm has announced that the reveal video for the Fighter Pack 3 will be released on Friday, November 10. An image shared by NetherRealm’s Ed Boon on Twitter suggests that the video will air during the Injustice 2 Eleague World Championship.

The show airs at 10 PM ET on November 10 on TBS in the United States.

We already know one character in the Fighter Pack 3, Atom, but presumably there will be a few more. That could be the reveal that NetherRealm has teed up for Friday. Atom launches in December, so we’d expect the others to follow after that.

The final new character in the Fighter Pack 2 is Hellboy, and he arrives on November 14. Just today, NetherRealm showed off Hellboy during a livestream–you can watch a replay of the key moments here.

In other news, NetherRealm today announced the release date for Injustice 2’s PC version. You can play the game’s 1v1 open beta on PC right now ahead of launch.

Microsoft recommit to in-house game development, and Sony announce a Skyrim PSVR bundle complete with every expansion pack!

GameSpot News is back with your regular hosts, Jess McDonell and Dan Crowd! What are they going to cover today? Only one way to find out!

Skyrim VR Headlines New PlayStation VR Bundle

Are you a die-hard Skyrim fan who can’t wait to completely immerse yourself in the world of Tamriel via the magical science of virtual reality? Well, if you also happen to own a PlayStation 4, but have yet to grab a VR headset for it, Sony have got the bundle for you!

Final Fantasy XV Comrades DLC’s Release Date Announced

Are you a die-hard Final Fantasy fan who can’t wait to play the game’s upcoming multiplayer expansion pack with your die-hard Final Fantasy fan friends? Well you’re in luck, because a release date has been announced! Get all the details in today’s episode.

Microsoft Plans To Acquire More Game Studios To Increase In-House Development

Are you a die hard Xbox fa–actually lemme start again. With the Xbox One X’s release, theres news that Microsoft is planning to expand its roster of in-house developers to bring more software to the platform. Xbox boss Phil Spencer spoke to Bloomberg recently, and his comments seemingly point to the Xbox’s direction moving forward.

That’s all for GameSpot News today, be sure to come back tomorrow and chat with us about the day’s video game events!

Check out this mission in NFS Payback where you decide to take a joyride in someone else’s Aston Martin!

Microsoft’s next console, the Xbox One X, launches worldwide on November 7. Xbox boss Phil Spencer is doing the media rounds to talk about the super-powerful console. One of his stops was on CNBC in New York, where he was asked who he thinks is the target audience for the new system. As he’s said many times in the past, Spencer made it very clear that the Xbox One X is not for everyone.

“This is for the discerning connoisseur of gaming has a 4K television, [who] wants to see the absolute best visuals,” Spencer said. “This box is definitely targeted toward the customer that buys the most and plays the most.”

By comparison, the less expensive Xbox One S, which will remain on sale, is being positioned as the mass-market device. As such, Microsoft believes it will sell much better than the Xbox One X. Spencer said Microsoft having two consoles on the market at the same time is all about giving players choice.

Spencer said at the Brasil Game Show recently that the Xbox One is for people who are looking for the “very best experience” with a home console. It’s all about giving players choice, he said; if they want to spend more for a high-end experience, they can.

The Xbox One costs $500 in the US, meaning it’s about twice the price of the Xbox One S. The new console plays all Xbox One games and works with the same controllers. More than 130 games are getting or already have been updated to take advantage of the Xbox One X’s power, including first-party games like Halo 5 and big-name third-party titles like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

For lots more on the device, check out GameSpot’s feature, “Xbox One X Release Date, Games, Review, And Everything You Need To Know.”

On the eve of the Xbox One X launch, Microsoft is talking about what may come next. In an interview with Bloomberg, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said Microsoft may launch a streaming service by 2020. Here is the exact wording from Bloomberg’s report:

“Microsoft will probably debut a streaming service that doesn’t require a console for some types of content in the next three years, Spencer said.”

The report says Microsoft held a trial for the service internally back in 2012. However, it was reportedly “too costly,” which is why it was never made available publicly. Whatever this service is, it may be powered by Microsoft’s cloud service program, Azure. Spencer said there have been advancements of late that could make this mysterious streaming service more potentially economically viable.

We have known about Microsoft’s game-streaming service ambitions for a long time now. A prototype of the service from 2013 was reportedly capable of streaming Halo 4 to a Windows Phone and PC. In 2014, it was reported that Microsoft was moving forward with its game-streaming service, and Spencer’s comments this week suggest that Microsoft is growing even more confident still in the project.

If Microsoft does indeed launch a game-streaming service, it would be following in the footsteps of Sony. The company’s PlayStation Now service lets subscribers stream a hundreds of games, including PS4 and PS3 titles, starting at $20/month. That service lets users stream games either to a console or PC.

We’ll report back with more details on Microsoft’s secret game-streaming service as more information comes to light. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.

Microsoft’s Xbox One X launches worldwide on November 7. For lots more on the device, check out GameSpot’s feature, “Xbox One X Release Date, Games, Review, And Everything You Need To Know.”