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WWE 2K26 With Superstars and Devs at Creator Fest | Official Xbox Podcast

The Official XBOX Podcast

Official XBOX Podcast

Leisure, Video Games

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Official Xbox Podcast, we're at a dream location for Malik: WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. We're talking to the WWE Superstars and devs behind WWE 2K26 about match types, changes to Universe, presentaiton, and so much more.


00:00 Introduction

01:05 CM Punk interview

04:38 Which Superstar should you pick in WWE 2K26?

08:04 Interview with Lynell Jinks and Bryan Williams

09:28 MyFaction and New Reversal System

11:25 New Match Types

12:44 What's new in the game as far as presentation goes?

17:00 Showcase Mode

19:13 Gaunlet format in Showcase

20:52 Universe Mode

22:25 Rival Reactions

23:47 What are you most excited for players to experience in WWE 2K26?

27:39 Outro


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Games in this podcast range from E to M.

0:02.8

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Paul Heyman.

0:05.0

Welcome to the Xbox podcast, the only podcast that comes to you from inside Xbox.

0:11.6

Mr. Heyman, what's going on everybody, Malik here, official Xbox podcast host.

0:16.2

Mr. Heyman, pleasure to meet you, by the way.

0:18.4

What an honor.

0:19.9

This is actually not my podcast, but I host it, so I'm not sure what you're, what you're doing here.

0:28.1

You know, I think I soiled his hands with my peasant hands.

0:34.3

You know what?

0:35.6

Legend.

0:36.5

I'm going to let it be.

0:38.3

I'm going to let it be. Take it away, Paul.

0:42.3

I thought he'd never leave.

0:44.3

Yeah, yeah, everyone, I'm here with the best in the world, W.

1:09.0

Heavyweight champion, CM Punk. How are you there? I am lovely. How are you? I'm doing great. This is actually an honor to sit next to you. Backstory that no one cares about. I grew up incredibly poor. My first WW event was when I was 18, and I bought a CM Punk shirt as the very first thing that I ever purchased with my own money related to WW.

1:29.9

It was the awesome shirt with the, uh, the black and white shirt with the, the, the, the 2008.

1:34.8

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for your support. Oh my God. I, I remember everything. And so, uh, I just

1:40.3

truly think that you have the greatest story in WWE history. We can actually dive right into the showcase, which you are not only the cover star for, but showcase. What was it like telling your story and kind of seeing it back and kind of taking a look back at everything you've done? Yeah, I think it's neat. I think it's one of the better aspects of the game because you get, you not only get to relive some of the biggest matches that actually happen, there's like the big what-if stuff. There's a what if I wrestle Eddie Guerrero in WWE and stuff like that. And I think, you know, because it is a video game and it is this fantastical circus pro wrestling, like the fantasy aspect of things, I think is a big hook for the fans. I think that's a big drawing factor to the game. Yeah, you mentioned it the what-if matches. I think one of those that we would have loved to see, for example, C.M. Punk versus Stone Cold, right? Yeah. Like the character that you were at the beginning of your career versus Stone Cold was such like a good foil. When you look back at your career, because also in

2:34.4

showcase mode, you're going to be able to check out some of the dream scenarios of like maybe

2:38.8

if you didn't leave WWE. When you look back, what are you more curious about the moments where

2:44.0

maybe you didn't leave WWE or maybe some of those dream matches? Which one is like in your head,

2:48.7

like, oh man, it would have been nice to the dream matches yeah for

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