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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.

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.

You can check those out in the gallery below.

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Season 2 of Rocket League has begun, adding new music and an arena to the game, as well as a new Rocket Pass. If you’re playing the game on Xbox Series X/S or PS5, the game has been updated for next-gen and has received a nice boost.

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.

FlyLo FM is Flying Lotus’ new station, and it’ll feature artists like Madlib, MF Doom, and “a bunch of rare, exclusive, and amazing surprises.” Finally, Worldwide FM comes from DJ Gilles Peterson, and features a mix of disco and world music.

All of this is in addition to GTA Online’s already massive list of stations and tracks. This new update will add over 250 new music tracks to the game.

These will all be part of a huge update that should keep fans going until the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of GTA V and Online arrive later in 2021.

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.

After some back-and-forth, Singh says that the number, which has been found “on Google,” is probably from NBA 2K20–the cover star’s rating is much higher now.

Williamson’s laughing the whole time, so it seems to be all in good fun.

The game is out now on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, but the file size is enormous. These versions also have a WNBA MyPlayer mode, which isn’t available on PS4, Xbox One, or Switch.

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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Welcome to our Sunday deals, where the headphones are cheap and the games even cheaper! It’s another great day for gamers, as some of the best current titles are on sale at Amazon and Best Buy. The Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal at Best Buy is still in full swing and over at Amazon, there’s a suite of great deals on games, headphones, vacuums and more.

The Best Deals for Saturday, December 12

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Update (12/13/20) – Insomniac Games has released the 1.002 update for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PS5 and it also brings a 60fps ray tracing mode to the game.

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A new update for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales brings a 60fps ray tracing mode to the game on PlayStation 5.

Before today’s update, which is already live, PS5 players had to choose between a resolution mode and a performance mode. The resolution mode featured 4K visuals with ray tracing while the performance mode dropped ray tracing in favor of a steady 60fps. Players can now have the best of both modes with the new “Performance RT” mode that features both 60fps and ray tracing.

Our new update overnight introduced Performance RT mode on PS5. 60fps and ray-tracing! https://t.co/SSRy9vq9Aw

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) December 9, 2020

This new mode adjusts scene resolution, reflection quality, and pedestrian density in order to achieve ray tracing at 60fps, according to the in-game description of the mode. The word “adjusts” in this description presumably means “lower.” While this might be noticeable to some players, Miles Morales is so fast-paced, especially while swinging through New York City, that you’ll likely see the benefits of 60fps and ray tracing more so than the lower quality reflections and more minimal pedestrian count.

The update is already live and weighs in at roughly 262MB. Once you’ve got the update downloaded and installed, restart Miles Morales and then head to the visual settings in the game’s main menu to select the new Performance RT mode. Like with the previous two modes, you can also switch between this new mode and the game’s resolution mode from the start menu while playing the game.

This news comes the same day that PlayStation announced that Miles Morales was the number one game at the top of the PS Store’s first-ever PS5 downloads chart. Miles Morales beat out other November titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, PS5-exclusive Demon’s Souls, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

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For more of the game, check out the official Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales vinyl soundtrack announced yesterday and then read the official IGN Miles Morales review after that. For a look at how the game looks on PS5, PS4 Pro, and PS4, check out IGN’s Miles Morales performance review video.

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Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. He is sad this update came after he already obtained the game’s platinum trophy. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

Certain Cyberpunk 2077 players on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam are seemingly getting refunds after complaining about the game’s performance.

As reported by VGC, Redditor NotBen_2 issued a PSA to those who are also experiencing issues when playing Cyberpunk 2077, especially on base PlayStation 4 and Xbox One units.

Sony’s policy on refunds for PlayStation Store purchases allow you to request one within the first 14 days. However, if you have started to download the game, you will “not be eligible for a refund unless the content is faulty.”

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Despite that, NotBen_2 did receive a refund, even after playing 10 hours of Cyberpunk 2077. For further context, he did mention that he deleted the entire game – game data, saved data, etc – off his PS4 before requesting the refund in a “calm professional manner.”

NotBen_2’s support representative also mentioned that “Sony is issuing a business complaint to CDPR about the issues, and [that he] wasn’t the first one to call in today about refunds.”

The comments included many who were also able to secure a refund, even on Xbox consoles and Steam, but not everyone has been so lucky. So, while it doesn’t appear to be a given that a refund request will be successful, it may be worth a try if you are experiencing issues with Cyberpunk 2077.

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Cyberpunk 2077’s launch has been impacted by many factors besides those performance-related, including a possible seizure-inducing sequence in the game and copyrighted songs that may cause DMCA strikes for streamers. Furthermore, these issues and others have caused CD Projekt Red’s stock to drop 29% around the launch of Cyberpunk 2077.

All these problems aside, Cyberpunk 2077 has already been a huge success for CD Projekt Red, as it revealed that Cyberpunk 2077’s pre-order sales had already covered the entire development and marketing cost of the game and that it had sold 8 million copies before launch.

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