Rocket League’s Super Bowl LV Celebration Will Bring Gridiron Mode And More

To get ready for the biggest day in football, the NFL and Rocket League are teaming up to bring the Super Bowl LV Celebration event to Rocket League. The event will run from February 2-8 and will introduce a brand-new game mode, Event Challenges, and the return of the NFL Fan Pack.

Gridiron is the new limited-time game mode that transforms Champions Field into a football field for a four versus four match that mimics American football rules with a Rocket League twist. Instead of the regular Rocket League ball, Gridiron will have a replica of an American football which will stick to the top of your car when you touch it, rather than sticking to wherever you made contact like in Spike Rush mode.

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Hitman 3 Is Full Of Hundreds Of Great, Tiny Stories

Note: This post contains some light spoilers for Hitman 3, so read on at your own risk.

Thanks to early looks at Hitman 3, we knew its second mission included a full-on murder mystery that takes place in an English manor, nestled right in the middle of your own intentions to commit a murder. What we didn’t know was just how intricate that mystery would be–or how much detail it would include about the family at the center of it all.

Though the last three Hitman games tell a tale of intrigue of their own, that story is mostly relegated to moments in between missions, providing loose reasoning to venture to each of its massive, dense locations. At Thornbridge Manor in Hitman 3, you’re looking to eliminate matriarch Alexa Carlisle because she’s a part of the Illuminati-like organization known as Providence. That’s enough to get you through the mansion’s door, but the story within it is a self-contained glimpse at Alexa and her family, and it mostly exists just to help you learn when you can get a chance to take Alexa out without being seen.

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Super Mario Bros. 35’s First World Count Challenge Was A Success

Super Mario Bros. 35‘s first collaborative event has ended, and it was a success. The event tasked players with cumulatively defeating 3.5 million Bowsers, and they exceeded that goal, defeating 5,363,696 Bowsers in total.

As a reward for surpassing the event goal, everyone who participated and defeated at least one Bowser during the event will receive 350 Platinum points in their My Nintendo account. These points can be redeemed for rewards on the My Nintendo website, including various physical items like the recently added Splatoon 2 Mario keychain set (although that is temporarily out of stock).

Nintendo plans to hold two more World Count Challenge events in February and March. Details about those have not been announced yet, however.

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Ethan Hawke Will Star In New Blumhouse Horror Movie The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is set to reunite with Sinister director Scott Derrickson for the new horror movie The Black Phone. The film is an adaptation of the Joe Hill story of the same title.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hawke will take on a villainous role as a man who kidnaps and imprisons a kid in a soundproof basement. Mason Thames (For All Mankind) plays the boy, while Jeremy Davis (Saving Private Ryan) plays his dad. The phone of the title is an old disconnected telephone in the room that rings with the voices of the dead at night.

The Black Phone is produced by Blumhouse Films, who also produced Sinister, as well as movies such as Get Out, The Purge, and the 2018 Halloween reboot. The film is written by Derrickson and his regular co-writer C. Robert Cargill. The pair also collaborated on Derrickson’s Marvel hit Doctor Strange. Hawke has previously appeared in several Blumhouse movies, including The Purge and the western In a Valley of Violence.

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Call Of Duty Warzone Stim Glitch Is Back Again And Trickier Than Ever To Pull Off

Call of Duty Warzone‘s notorious stim glitch has reared its head a fourth time, allowing players to cheat the system and survive in the deadly storm to come out on top. But this one is slightly different from previous iterations.

Calling what players have been experiencing this time around a glitch isn’t exactly right, but the effects are basically the same: players who exploit it are able to heal infinitely while hiding in the storm, leaving them the sole survivors of a match.

If you want to pull the glitch off yourself, we won’t tell you how to do it, but know that you’ll need a lot of in-game currency to do it. Rather than an actual glitch, this method relies on exploiting loopholes in legal gameplay mechanics by finding ways to rapidly complete Contracts and earn a ton of in-game cash to spend on Munitions Boxes. This isn’t a clearly defined coding flaw, so it’s not like the past versions of the stim glitch we’ve seen before, which relied on portions of the game’s code that could be exploited.

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GameStop Stock: AOC Announces Livestream After Calling Robinhood’s Decision “Unacceptable”

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will conduct a livestream on Twitch where she will discuss the latest news about GameStop’s stock price and marketplace volatility in general. The stream is set for 5:30 PM PT / 8:30 PM ET, and you can watch it through the embed below once it begins.

AOC announced the stream on Twitter. She will be joined by “a guest or two,” but she didn’t say who her guests may be. Plans for livestream emerged following her comments against the stock trading site Robinhood, which recently halted trading for GameStop, AMC, and other stocks that are getting short-squeezed. She said Robinhood’s decision is “unacceptable.”

“We now need to know more about Robinhood’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit,” she said. “As a member of the Financial Services Committee, I’d support a hearing if necessary.”

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Where To Emote At Stone Statues In Fortnite

One of the challenges you’ll be asked to complete in Fortnite this week is to emote at stone statues. There is more than one place you can complete this quest–simply click on the challenge in your quest log from the lobby and it will highlight where you need to go. We’ve outlined two stone statue locations in our guide below.

Fortnite’s Season 5, Week 9 challenges are now live and can be completed for XP.

Stone statue location guide

Below you’ll find both stone statue locations marked on the map:

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