Rocket League’s Annual Frosty Fest Gives The Game A Festive Makeover

Frosty Fest, which has happened every year since 2017, is back in Rocket League for another year. The event adds new festive cosmetic items, limited-time events, and a snowy makeover to the recently free-to-play vehicular sports game.

The event begins on December 14, and runs through until January 4, 2021. At the beginning of the event, a limited-time Winter Breakaway mode will be available, which will be replaced by Spike Rush on December 21, and then 2v2 Heatseeker on December 28. These modes will all be played on snowy arenas.

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Over the course of the event, the Floeberg Antenna will be available for free from the Item Shop, while numerous other themed items will be available through completing Event Challenges. These include some re-released items that were available in previous Frosty Fest events.

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GTA 5 Online Is Adding 5 New Radio Stations This Week

Grand Theft Auto V‘s Online mode is getting a major update this week for the Cayo Perico Heist, which adds a brand new social space and lots of new material, including a huge radio update that has now been detailed. The game is adding five new radio stations, and some major artists are involved.

In a Rockstar newswire post, each of the new channels has been detailed. The first one, Still Slipping Los Santos, is helmed by UK DJ Joy Orbison, and will feature techno and house beats. It sounds like this one will be a pirate radio station, and will tie into some of the new missions coming to GTA Online–“he’s having trouble getting a strong enough signal to reach beyond his neighborhood. If he’s going to take his sound city and statewide, he’s going to need some help getting started,” the post says.

The next station is Kult FM 99.1, hosted by Julian Casablancas. This one will feature a lot of throwback tracks from the likes of Joy Division, New Order, and the Velvet Underground, as well as guest appearances from Mac DeMarco, David Cross, and Tony Mac. The Music Locker, meanwhile, will feature various club tracks when it debuts.

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NBA 2K21 Cover Star Zion Williamson Thought His Player Rating Was Too Low

NBA 2K21‘s cover star is Zion Williamson, who features on the PS5/Xbox Series X versions of the game, is obviously a big deal–but when Williamson first heard his own player rating, it was surprisingly low. Williamson got to the bottom of this by getting on the phone to 2K, but as it turns out, he’d misunderstood.

In a video posted to the official Twitter account of the New Orleans Pelicans, Williamson calls up 2K’s Ronnie Singh–the man responsible for player ratings–and questions why his in-game rating is only an 81.

“Somebody got that wrong,” Singh replies, telling Williamson that he’s actually an 86 in-game.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Helps Steam Break Its All-Time Concurrent Player Record

Thanks in-part to the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, Steam has broken its all-time concurrent player record with a peak of 24,804,148 users.

As reported by PC Gamer, this impressive number was revealed by the tracking site SteamDB and breaks the previous record of 22 million that was reached in March 2020 as more and more global stay-at-home orders and lockdowns were enacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Alongside the success of Cyberpunk 2077, which itself broke Steam’s record for concurrent players in a single game with an all-time peak of 1,054,388 users, renewed lockdowns and the onset of winter in parts of the world also surely contributed to number.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive also helped make this record possible, as its 24-hour peak, as of this writing, is 1,062,017 players. Other 24-hour peaks in this time-frame include DOTA 2’s 648,889 users, Among Us’ 173,021 users, and Rocket League’s 121,535 users.

In our Cyberpunk 2077 review, we said that it “kicks you into its beautiful and dazzlingly dense cityscape with few restrictions. It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, but Cyberpunk 2077’s impressively flexible design makes it a truly remarkable RPG.”

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For more on Cyberpunk 2077, check out how you can improve the game’s visuals by changing a few settings, how to get unlimited money and crafting XP, and our comprehensive beginner’s guide to help you in your adventure in Night City.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.