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Fortnite flirted with an deployable glider that would let you soar across the battlefield in style, but quickly ended the test feature. Now it’s back as an item, with a handful of changes that Epic says should make the glider fulfill its intended purpose.

Starting with the v7.20 patch, the Glider Redeploy will take up an inventory slot and be discoverable as a normal piece of loot in chests, vending machines, and supply llamas. You don’t need to select the item, but it will use up charges and then disappear once all the charges have been used. Using Launch Pads, Rifts, and LTM respawns won’t use a charge.

“There was a very split response on the mechanic which revealed some positives as well as some negatives,” Epic said in the update detailing the changes. “We removed the mechanic from default modes, but feel an alternative implementation will help in solving some of those negatives and better suits our goals.”

It says that the goal is to provide “mobility and utility” but to make sure it’s balanced and can be iterated on. The new changes aim to give the studio more flexibility for iteration going forward. For Soaring 50s or other large-team modes, you’ll automatically start with a Glider with 50 charges.

We’re in the midst of Season 7 of Fortnite, so if you need some help earning this season’s cosmetics while you play with the new glider, check out our challenge guide. Just recently Fortnite changed another aerial vehicle, with an update that nerfed the plane.

WWE’s yearly event, the Royal Rumble, is almost here. It has one of the most interesting matches of the year, where 30 participants enter the ring, one by one, and have to eliminate each other until there is only one superstar left standing. The winner of the event gets to challenge their brand’s champion at Wrestlemania, so the stakes are high.

This year’s Royal Rumble is coming to PPV and the WWE Network live on Sunday, January 27 at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, with a Kickoff Show starting two hours prior. Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona will host the event, and you can still pick up tickets if you’re interested. Single tickets are going for as cheap as $36 as of this writing, but the prices will fluctuate as we get closer to the event.

While it’s still a couple weeks away, there are currently eight matches on the card, and there could be a few more added, two of which should be on the Kickoff Show. Brock Lesnar returns to hopefully lose the Universal Championship to Braun Strowman, so WWE fans can finally have a fighting champ that actually shows up weekly. And if you think I’m being a bit salty, talk to any WWE fan about the Universal Championship, and they’ll probably say the same thing.

However, there is plenty to be excited about for this year’s PPV. Aside from both the men’s and women’s rumble matches, which are the most fun thing WWE produces every year, Becky Lynch gets a rematch for the Smackdown Women’s Championship against Asuka. That should be a spectacular match, and on Raw, things have been heating up between Sasha Banks and Ronda Rousey, and fans seem pretty excited about the championship match.

Below, you’ll find the Royal Rumble match card and every confirmed entrant for both the men and women’s Royal Rumble matches.

Royal Rumble Match Card:

• Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Akira Tozawa vs. Kalisto vs. Hideo Itami (Cruiserweight Championship)
• The Bar (c) vs. The Miz & Shane McMahon (Smackdown Tag Team Championship)
• Asuka (c) vs. Becky Lynch (Smackdown Women’s Championship)
• Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Sasha Banks (Raw Women’s Championship)
• Women’s Royal Rumble
• Men’s Royal Rumble
• Daniel Bryan (c) vs. AJ Styles (WWE Championship)
• Brock Lesnar (c) vs. Braun Strowman (Universal Championship)

Confirmed Rumble Participants: Men

• John Cena
• Dean Ambrose
• Seth Rollins
• Samoa Joe
• Finn Bálor
• Drew McIntyre
• Kofi Kingston
• Big E
• Xavier Woods
• Apollo Crews
• Baron Corbin
• Elias
• Jinder Mahal
• Jeff Hardy
• Bobby Lashley
• Andrade “Cien” Almas
• Rey Mysterio
• Mustafa Ali
• R-Truth (No. 30 Spot)

Confirmed Rumble Participants: Women

• Natalya
• Bayley
• Sasha Banks
• Ember Moon
• Ruby Riott
• Sarah Logan
• Liv Morgan
• Alicia Fox
• Mandy Rose
• Sonya Deville
• Zelina Vega
• Carmella (No. 30 spot)

Make sure to come back to GameSpot on Sunday, January 27 for live coverage of the event and a review of the PPV to follow.

Pokemon Go‘s ongoing Adventure Sync Hatchathon may be coming to an end soon, but a new event is set to kick off immediately afterward. Beginning January 15, Niantic will hold a two-week-long celebration of the Hoenn region, featuring a ton of Pokemon originally from Ruby and Sapphire.

Throughout the event, Gen 3 Pokemon such as Numel, Zigzagoon, and Taillow will spawn much more frequently in the wild. On top of that, players will have a chance to encounter Shiny forms of Zigzagoon and Taillow, while any Shroomish that evolve into Breloom during the event will know the Grass-type attack Grass Knot.

Raid Battles will also feature Gen 3 Pokemon, including the Legendaries Groudon and Kyogre. Gen 3 Pokemon will be much more likely to hatch from 7 km Eggs during the event as well. There will also be new Field Research tasks themed around Gen 3 Pokemon.

Rounding out the celebration, Niantic will offer new avatar items based on Team Aqua and Team Magma–the villainous teams from Ruby and Sapphire–in the game’s Style Shop. The Hoenn event is scheduled to end on January 29. You can read more details on the Pokemon Go website.

On top of the Hoenn celebration, Niantic is hosting a new Limited Research event this Saturday, January 19. Much like a Community Day, it will only run in each region for three hours. During this time, players will be able to get special Limited Research tasks from PokeStops, each of which ends with an encounter with Feebas.

Valve has announced its plans for Steam in 2019 and beyond. The PC game store isn’t ready to reveal the exact details behind each upcoming change, but it has announced enough to give us a basic idea of what to expect in the future.

The biggest planned change seems to be for game discoverability on the Steam Store. “We’re working on a new recommendation engine powered by machine-learning, that can match players to games based on their individual tastes,” Steam revealed in a blog post. The post went on to add that discovery algorithms would only be a part of the new process for recommending games to players. New “broadcasting and curating features” are under development as well.

Steam also announced plans for upgrading its events system, so that players would be able to more easily discover “interesting activities” associated to the games they play, such as tournaments or streams. Expansions and changes to both Steam Library and Steam TV are in the works as well.

In terms of brand-new content, Steam is planning on shipping Steam Chat, a mobile app that will allow you to “share your favorite GIFs with your friends while on the go.” Counter-Strike: Global Offensive‘s Trusted Matchmaking is also being expanded to all other games with the new Steam Trust. Steam has revealed plans for opening “hundreds of thousands” of PC cafes around the world too, and the PC store is partnering with Perfect World to help bring Steam to China.

The latter half of 2018 saw Steam face new competition with the emergence of the Epic Games Store. Epic promised a more lucrative cut for developers that launched their games on its store, especially for titles made with Unreal Engine. To entice players, Epic secured several exclusive games, including titles that were originally scheduled to launch on Steam like The Division 2. Going into 2019, Epic Games didn’t let up the pressure on its competitor, offering a free game every two weeks for anyone using its store and also changing its refund policy to match Steam’s.

Super Bowl LIII is coming up soon, and now CBS–which is GameSpot’s parent company–has announced some of the technological advancements it is planning to broadcast this year’s big game.

Perhaps the most exciting advancement is the use of “augmented reality graphics.” In a first for a live sporting event broadcast, Super Bowl LIII will have camera operators working with a “live, wireless handheld camera” that will show augmented reality graphics, as well as “up-close camera tracking” on the field.

This promises to deliver new perspectives and angles, as well as field-level views.

In total, CBS will use 115 different camera for the Super Bowl LIII broadcast, including 14 dedicated to virtual graphics. This includes four featuring augmented reality, one of which is the “SkyCam” that flies overhead. The other 10 are being deployed to support “trackable first-down-line technology.”

The Super Bowl LIII broadcast on CBS will also make use of multiple 8K camera that promise a better look a pivotal plays. There will also be 16 4K cameras and nine Sony 4800 cameras placed around the stadium to provide even more unique camera angles. These cameras are also capable of “super slow-motion,” while they can also zoom in with only minimal affect on resolution, which could come in handy for close calls.

What’s more, CBS is putting more than 25 camera on each endzone, including 14 inside the endzone pylons on each side of the field for a total of 28.

In other Super Bowl LIII news, it was recently confirmed that Maroon 5 will headline the halftime show, with Big Boi and Travis Scott also set to appearing as supporting acts.

Super Bowl LIII takes place on Sunday, February 3, from Atlanta, Georgia. You can watch the game on TV or stream it through CBSSports.com.

For more on Super Bowl LIII, check out CBS Sports’ Super Bowl hub. You can also stream more CBS content through the new CBS All Access streaming package.