2K has announced an arcade-style WWE game and addressed concern about the fate of the simulation series.

WWE 2K Battlegrounds is a brawler by World War Z and NBA 2K Playgrounds developer Saber Interactive, and it's out autumn 2020. It features stylised depictions of famous wrestlers, with outlandish moves and environments. Expect more on the game soon. Until then, here's the trailer:

Meanwhile, 2K has addressed concern about the future of its sim series after it emerged WWE 2K21 was cancelled following the disastrous release of WWE 2K20.

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Lycra-clad glitchfest WWE 2K20 suffered a typically tough start to the new year yesterday morning when a freshly-discovered bug began crashing games as the clock struck midnight - 00:00, 1st January 2020.

Numerous players reported being kicked from various WWE 2K20 modes and unable to get back in as soon as the new year rolled around (thanks, Kotaku). Ironic, really, for a game with 2020 in its title.

Fans soon realised the problem was widespread - and that a rather hilarious temporary fix was possible by simply setting your console's internal clock back to 2019. Many compared the issue to the infamous Millennium bug, albeit 20 years late.

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2K has apologised after a social media hack of its various accounts was used to post racist comments.

Yesterday evening, 2K lost control of a raft of its social media accounts across Twitter and Facebook, including the official pages for Borderlands, WWE and Civilization.

During the hack, the official accounts were used to post a number of offensive messages. The Facebook page for WWE 2K saw its profile picture changed to the logo for AEW Wrestling, and its cover image changed to a picture of wrestler Chris Benoit.

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WWE 2K20 arrived last week in a state that could charitably be described as shambolic - and the only real positive for fans that paid good money to experience the whole shoddy enterprise was that it managed to be utterly broken in ways that were frequently hilarious. But with the mirth now subsiding, publisher 2K is finally, as it previously promised, getting on with the business of sorting out its whole sorry mess with the game's first big patch.

WWE 2K20 is, for context, the first game in the series to be primarily handled by NBA studio Visual Concepts, with previous entries being joint efforts by Visual Concepts and Japanese developer Yuke's. The result of Visual Concepts' solo toils, it's fair to say, didn't leave a great first impression, with the many, many broken elements of the experience being documented in a Reddit thread generously titled "WWE 2K20 is an absolute disaster".

Things were bad enough that Sony even agreed to refund purchases on PS4.

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2K has finally piped up about the disastrous launch of WWE 2K20, promising patches are on the way.

The wrestling video game launched on 22nd October and went viral on social media for its nightmarish - and hilarious - glitches. #FixWWE2K20 ended up trending on Twitter in the US.

Publisher 2K remained silent (and failed to respond to Eurogamer's request for comment) until late on Friday, 25th October, when a statement was issued on the WWE Games Twitter account.

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WWE 2K20 launched yesterday and already it's a viral hit - for all the wrong reasons.

Clips of gameplay showing bizarre bugs and shocking glitches have gone viral on social media - leading to #FixWWE2K20 trending on Twitter in the US.

WWE 2K20 is the first game in the series primary developed by Visual Concepts, the US studio responsible for the NBA games. Prior to this entry, the WWE games were co-developed by Visual Concepts and Japanese studio Yuke's.

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