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Destruction AllStars received its own State of Play today, detailing game modes, currency, hero abilities, the challenge series, and much more for this PlayStation exclusive launching on PlayStation Plus on February 2, 2021.

Destruction AllStars’ State of Play was revealed alongside the PlayStation Plus games for February 2021, a list that includes this new title from Lucid Games.

This 8-minute deep dive began by discussing the game’s three types of vehicles. The first is all about speed, which can drift and take corners like no other. The second is all about agility and was built specifically for giving the maximum amount of control. The third type are the heavy vehicles and can endure the most damage.

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These cars are disposable by design and you are meant to constantly be jumping in and out of vehicles to earn points and destroy your opponents.

When you are evading, wrecking enemies, and getting pick-ups, you will be charging both your hero vehicle ability and hero ability, each which are unique to the one of 16 characters you choose.

The State of Play revealed Lupita’s trail of fire abilities that damage all in their wake, while Shyft’s are more strategic as they can turn them invisible and allow them to disappear from the mini-map.

All heroes will be able to move faster and double jump while in hero mode. Inside or outside of hero mode, all heroes can wall-run, vault, vault-boost, ricochet off walls, dodge, and more.

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We also got a look at a few of Destruction AllStars’ modes, which were revealed last year. The three modes showcased were Carnado, Stockpile, and Gridfall.

Currency was also discussed, and it’s comprised of both All-Star Coins and Destruction Points. All-Star Coins are earned by playing online and earning XP, while Destruction Points can be purchased from the PlayStation Store.

Following launch, there will be daily and weekly challenges players can compete in to earn Destruction Points.

Lastly, the Challenge Series was teased, which focus on a single all-star and their rival. Besides getting a “little bit of backstory and motivation,” there will be unique challenges and gameplay and it will all culminate with a final showoff against their rival.

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

Nintendo is following Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ January update with another free content update in March. The company has shared very few details about that patch as of yet, other than confirming it will introduce some Mario content to the game, but here’s what we can generally expect.

Although Nintendo hasn’t shared much information about Animal Crossing’s March update, the company had previously announced that a line of Mario-themed furniture will be added to the game that month. We don’t know exactly how many pieces of furniture will be added or just what they’ll look like, but Mario items have been a staple of the Animal Crossing series since the beginning. Previous entries have featured wallpaper and flooring inspired by the original Super Mario Bros., as well as furniture based on the Super Mushroom, Super Star, fire bar, and other iconic Mario items. There were also Mario clothing and accessories, including the plumber’s signature cap and mustache.

Given that Nintendo has been redesigning many of Animal Crossing’s older furniture sets for New Horizons, it’s possible the developer could take the same approach with the Mario line and redesign existing items or even introduce completely new ones. In either case, it seems likely that some or even all of the aforementioned Mario items could be added as part of March’s update (the tease at the end of the game’s latest trailer featured the Super Mushroom and Super Star, so it seems safe to say furniture based on those power-ups will be added at the very least). How players will be able to obtain them remains to be seen, however; it’s possible that Nintendo could introduce the items as part of an in-game event, or implement them as DIY recipes and have players craft the items themselves.

Mario isn’t the only Nintendo series that has a history with Animal Crossing. Every main Animal Crossing to date aside from New Horizons has featured a variety of Nintendo-themed items and furniture, from replica Master Swords and Arwings to Pikmin hats and Metroid clothes. The original Animal Crossing even contained a handful of classic NES games (including Super Mario Bros.) that could be placed in players’ homes and played.

In the past, these Nintendo items were typically distributed through special means, primarily as part of events or promotions. In New Leaf for 3DS, however, players could acquire them through Fortune Cookies, which could be purchased at Timmy and Tommy’s shop using Play Coins accumulated while walking around with the system in sleep mode.

New Leaf took the Nintendo collaborations further than most other Animal Crossing games; following the title’s big Welcome Amiibo update, players could use Amiibo to invite a handful of Splatoon- and Zelda-themed villagers such as Epona and Ganon to live in their town. These villagers aren’t currently available in New Horizons, although it wouldn’t be surprising to see them re-introduced down the line.

In the meantime, Animal Crossing’s January update arrives this Thursday, January 28. It introduces the Festivale event, which takes place on February 15 and is hosted by Pave the dancing peacock. The update will also add an assortment of new seasonal items, as well as new reactions to go along with Festivale.

A mod that allowed players to sort of have sex with Keanu Reeves’ character Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 has already been disabled by CD Projekt Red.

The mod, created by modder Catmino and hosted on Nexus mods, allowed players to swap skin textures onto different models in the game. By swapping Johnny Silverhand’s skin texture onto one of the robot sex workers (joytoys) around Night City, players could have sex with what looked like Silverhand. Swapping textures would do nothing for the robots’ voices, and they remained clothed, so the mod wasn’t exactly a great replica, but it garnered enough attention to be reported on by Eurogamer earlier today. Soon after that post was published, the mod was removed from Nexus.

In a statement to PC Gamer on why the mod was removed, CD Projekt Red said: “Our most important rule regarding user-generated content, game mods in particular, is that it can’t be harmful towards others. In the case of model swaps, especially those that involve explicit situations, it can be perceived as such by the people who lent us their appearance for the purpose of creating characters in Cyberpunk 2077.” Basically, they don’t want modders putting Keanu into NSFW situations he didn’t sign on for.

CD Projekt Red went on to state: “Therefore, when making fan content, creators have to make sure they’ve got permission from all the concerned parties (which might be people other than CD PROJEKT RED). For the characters we’ve invented for the game, we broadly permit you to tweak the game at will and just have fun. When it comes to models of real people whom we’ve asked to participate in the game, we kindly ask you to refrain from using them in any situation that might be found offensive if you don’t have their explicit permission.”

After all the other controversies this game has faced, it’s probably not a bad move to keep players from messing with real likenesses too much.

Pokemon Go is following its ongoing Johto Celebration with a Team Rocket-themed event. The Team Go Rocket Celebration kicks off next Tuesday, February 2, and it features new Shadow Pokemon to catch, special Team Go Rocket-themed Research tasks to complete, and other in-game bonuses.

The event begins at 10 AM local time and runs until 8 PM local time on February 7. Throughout that time, the following Pokemon will be appearing more frequently in the wild than usual:

• Golbat
• Koffing
• Ariados
• Qwilfish
• Sneasel
• Houndour
• Nuzleaf
• Stunky
• Skorupi
• Venipede

In addition, a variety of new Pokemon will be hatching from the recently added Team Go Rocket eggs. These Pokemon will be available even after the event ends:

• Qwilfish
• Larvitar
• Corphish
• Absol
• Skorupi
• Sandile
• Scraggy
• Pawniard
• Deino

Beyond that, Team Go Rocket grunts you encounter will have new teams of Shadow Pokemon. Some new monsters will also be available in Shadow form for the first time, including Swinub, Nosepass, Aron, Spheal, Lileep, and Anorith. You’ll also receive a new Team Go Rocket gift sticker for defeating one of the team leaders during the event, and there will be new event-exclusive Field Research and Timed Research tasks to complete.

Finally, eggs that you place in Incubators during the event will hatch at half the distance they normally require, and certain Pokemon like Nidoqueen, Alolan Grimer, and Alolan Meowth will be appearing in Raids. You can read more details about the Team Go Rocket Celebration on the official Pokemon Go website.

In the meantime, the Johto Celebration event is running until January 31. Niantic is also hosting a Sneasel Limited Research event on January 30 that will give players a chance to catch Shiny Sneasel.

The original Guitar Hero team reportedly thought the guitar controller was a “stupid” idea. We gained this and other insights from Vice’s report on the game’s history.

RedOctane and Harmonix were the dynamic duo responsible for Guitar Hero. RedOctane started as a video game rental service in the vein of GameFly, but made the pivot to manufacturing peripherals, specifically DDR dance mats, after the dot com bubble burst. Harmonix was the brainchild of two MIT grads who wanted to create ways for anyone to make music, regardless of their talent or ability. The two companies came together to merge RedOctane’s peripheral manufacturing experience and capabilities with Harmonix’s game development skills to create a new kind of guitar game.

There were a litany of reasons why the partnership and ensuing game should have failed instead of rocketing to success. Both music games and games that used peripherals were not all that popular or commercially successful in the US at the time. Plus, the addition of the peripheral meant that any game using it would automatically have a fairly high price point. And RedOctane was not only a small publisher, but an extremely inexperienced one. Despite all these reasons to say no, Harmonix accepted because this was “the exact game, the game that we felt born to make,” according to co-founder and CEO Alex Rigopulos.

Most of the developers on the Harmonix team thought the idea of a guitar controller was stupid at first. “My initial thoughts around the controller were that it was goofy and it wouldn’t work,” said Harmonix artist and animator Jason Kendall. Many of his coworkers felt similarly. But an early build that was already functional made many change their minds. Meanwhile, RedOctane was impressed from the first prototype onward, though it also imposed several restrictions on the game to ensure it would be on store shelves for the 2005 holiday season. This gave Harmonix 9 months to ship a completed game. The number of venues, characters, and several other design choices we saw in the original Guitar Hero were influenced by this time constraint.

The team hit the mark, and Guitar Hero released November 8, 2005. Within two months it had made $45 million, an instant success. RedOctane and Harmonix made two more games under their contract together–Guitar Hero 2 and Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the 80’s. But both were being courted by other companies, and both eventually sold; RedOctane was acquired by Activision and Harmonix went to Viacom. The genre grew too large too quickly in the years after RedOctane and Harmonix parted ways though, and soon a game type that had shaken the industry began to fade away. By 2017 Rock Band was done, with Guitar Hero having already been dead for about seven years at that point. The dream was over, but the legacy lived on in all the people, including artists like Post Malone, who were exposed to new music thanks to Guitar Hero.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ free January update arrives tomorrow, January 28. In addition to adding the Festivale event to the game, the update will introduce a variety of new seasonal items, and Nintendo has now shared some screenshots of these on its Japanese website.

The items will appear in Nook Shopping’s Seasonal tab throughout February and include a football rug for the Super Bowl, a Mr. Resetti model for Groundhog Day, and a red envelope for the Lunar New Year. You will also be able to purchase a box of chocolates and a heart-shaped rose bouquet for Valentine’s Day. You can take a look at the items below.

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The biggest addition in New Horizons’ January update is the aforementioned Festivale event, which falls on February 15. As part of the event, Pave the dancing peacock will visit your town, and you’ll be able to catch different colored feathers and exchange them for rewards. Nintendo is also introducing new clothing items and reactions to go along with Festivale.

Animal Crossing’s next update is slated for March. Nintendo hasn’t shared many details about the update yet, but the company had previously said it will introduce Mario-themed furniture to the game, in honor of the Super Mario series’ 35th anniversary. Nintendo is also bringing the previously Japan-exclusive Animal Crossing Sanrio Collaboration Amiibo cards to the US in March.

In other Animal Crossing new, PowerA is releasing two new Animal Crossing Switch controllers featuring Tom Nook and Isabelle. The controllers launch on February 14 and retail for $25 USD each.

One of Fortnite‘s Season 5, Week 9 challenges is to find a hidden bunker. There are three hidden bunkers to choose from. Finding any of the three should check this challenge off your list. Below, we’ve rounded up the location of all three bunkers and how to unearth them.

These challenges don’t go live in Fortnite until Thursday, January 28. You can practice locating and uncovering the bunkers now, but you won’t be able to cross this quest off your list until challenges are active later this week.

Hidden bunker locations in Fortnite

The three hidden bunkers can be found in or nearby the following locations:

• Under the Unremarkable Shack on the island northwest of Craggy Cliffs
• Under the ocean near the stone statues south of Holly Hedges
• Under a bush near a cliffside campsite east of Retail Row

If you have fun discovering things on your own, these hints should give you a good starting place to start searching. If you want more detailed instructions on how to find each bunker, read on below.

Unremarkable Shack bunker

Head to the small island northwest of Craggy Cliffs, where you’ll find a landmark called the Unremarkable Shack. Behind the wooden shack, facing the beach, is a pile of wooden pallets and other debris.

Destroy the debris to unblock the hidden bunker beneath the shack.

Underwater bunker

The underwater bunker is a little trickier to find. It is located roughly south of Holly Hedges and northwest of Slurpy Swamp. If you zoom into the map, you’ll notice a piece of cliffside jutting out over the water. There, you’ll find the circle of stone statues, which another of Week 9’s challenges asks you to emote near.

The bunker is located underwater just off the shore of these cliffs. To find it, you’ll have to jump into the water and dive under using the jump button. Repeatedly tap the jump button as you swim around so your character dives under. You should see the bunker between two patches of coral. Approach the bunker to register it for your challenge.

Campsite bunker

The hidden campsite bunker is located east of Retail Row, up on the cliffs overlooking the water. The easiest way to find it is to look for the small campsite with the purple and white tents.

Face the water and turn away from the campsite, so the ocean is to your left. You should see a large bush between two trees.

Destroy the bush to reveal the hidden bunker underneath.’

For more Fortnite guides, check out the rest of the Season 5, Week 9 challenges.