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10 Changes That MUST Be Made To WWE 2K26 - Bring Back Road To WrestleMania! More Focus On NXT Stars! Online Tournaments! More Celebrity Wrestlers?!

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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How can WWE 2K26 improve on 2K25? Simon Miller presents 10 Changes That MUST Be Made To WWE 2K26...


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0:00.0

Play Final One Standing by William Hill. It's free to play with a new league kicking off every Premier League match week. Enter and make your first pick your first pick a new team before each following round. You can only pick each team once and if you're the final one standing then the jackpot is yours. Final one standing by William Hill, football's ultimate elimination game. 18 plus wins EPL season, one active league at a time on less prize 100,000 pounds or more, minimum prize 1,000 pounds. Prices vary and apply to public leagues only. Price split and four losing the same hour. Pay within 48 hours online, full teas and seas at Williamhill.com. Play responsibly. WWB2K is a good series. Came back strong after that nightmare a few years ago and some of the new

0:38.4

modes in 2025 were well received. Fans seem to like the island to a point and of course old

0:44.1

favourites continue to develop. My GM is the hardest thing in the world but hey, it pushes your

0:49.0

nerd brain. Over the last few months though there's also been a demand for additions in 2026 so let's

0:54.1

try and manifest those I suppose Or laugh at how ridiculous the ideas are, both are good. Number 10, more celebrity wrestlers. That may sound like an odd choice, but if WW2K is going to follow the television product as close as possible, yeah, you've got to get the whole gambit in, which these days includes all the celebrities

1:11.8

who pop in for a fight. And yes, I know adding the crew of the Pat McAfee Show was strange.

1:16.8

I suppose we should just ignore it. The benefit, though, is that because people like Tyrese Halliburton

1:21.1

were included, WW2K was named dropped during the NBA finals, which not only gets outside

1:27.1

promotion, but could encourage

1:28.8

more people to play. It's never a bad thing. The more popular it is, the more extras you're

1:33.7

going to get. There's new ways to do this in 2026's jelly roll has to be a shoe-in, as does I show

1:39.0

speed. That dude's following is insane, and at least it also means if they do make more appearances on television, it makes more sense. You may as well tighten the K-fabe as much as possible. And I'm not saying you have to go crazy. Taylor Swift doesn't need to turn up. Well, nobody could afford that anyway. So yeah, keep it sensible. But if this is what WW is going to do, then you're a simulation of WWE, copy it and make sure it's to your benefit and beyond.

2:04.6

Number 9, WWE's version of Road to the Show.

2:07.7

As we know, WW2K is an annual release.

2:11.1

Issues come attached to that.

2:12.9

You always run the risk of fans feeling like it's just an updated roster and slight visual increase,

2:22.6

whereas the core experience is the same. Games are expensive too, the audience has to feel like it's worth the cash. It feels like 2025 did that with the island and the return of my GM, but now

2:27.6

we've got to push on. It's where we look at Major League Baseball's The Show, because, yeah,

2:31.8

the road to the show mode allows somebody to create their own character, go through high school, college, and the MLB draft. Then it's the miners, before you hit the big time, good grief, it's not easy. Sometimes it can be a little bit of a grind, to be honest, but it's compelling in a very odd way, like World of Warcraft. And sure my rise is sort of like this, but it more often

2:51.1

than not focuses on your WWE journey, where you could go into much greater detail. Maybe you start

2:56.6

as an amateur in college, including a new gameplay mechanic to match that. I get that requires

3:01.4

serious resources, but again, we only get a new one every 12 months. Sometimes you've got to think

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