It's been 12 years since Bruno Mars performed at the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show, but the musician has found a new big venue where he can sing without even leaving his home. This weekend, the hit Roblox game Steal a Brainrot is going to host a pop up performance by Bruno Mars that's a one-time only appearance.

The official announcement went out on Roblox's social media channels. Mars' performance will be held on Saturday, January 17 at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET.

Steal a Brainrot x @BrunoMars. One day only. Tomorrow at 12 PM PST. https://t.co/Ekt2Z72dM9 pic.twitter.com/32skDveIES

— Roblox (@Roblox) January 16, 2026

Although musical acts like Stray Kids have performed in Roblox before, Mars will be the first to do so for Steal a Brainrot, which launched in May 2025. He's expected to sing his new single, I Just Might, as well as an older song, Locked Out of Heaven.

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Earlier this week, Battlefield 6's Season 2 launch was pushed back to February 17 to give the development team more time to implement some needed changes. But that doesn't mean there won't be some improvements ahead of time. Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield 6 Update 1.1.3.5 will arrive on Tuesday, January 20, and it's bringing some good news for anyone who wanted the jet combat to be more refined.

Going forward, jet cannon damage against flying vehicles has been greatly reduced, and it will take "approximately 40% more hits" to blow targets out of the sky. However, the air radar that was previously announced will not be included in this update.

Melee combat was also a priority for this update, which aims to improve "responsiveness, consistency, and sprint behavior for melee attacks, including knives and the sledgehammer." The Assault Ladder should also be more functional after this update, and the patch notes indicate that it has resolved some issues with the user interface and heads-up display in Redsec and Multiplayer, in addition to better stability for the Battle Royale and Gauntlet modes.

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It’s a bad time to be in the Animal Crossing hotel business. New Horizons’ 3.0 update introduced a wave of new features, but one addition stands out above the rest: a fully fledged hotel that appears on the pier of every island. Overnight, that official beachfront resort has effectively put countless player-made hotels out of business.

That might matter more if anyone besides Tom Nook--and the long-suffering players paying off his loans--actually exchanged money in New Horizons. Still, the arrival of an island-sanctioned hotel has made the decision to tear down pre-update resorts an easy one for many players who suddenly found their handmade creations obsolete.

"The fateful day has come for the new update, and the local resident-run hotel has fallen on hard times thanks to the illegally constructed hotel on the pier," wrote Redditor ll_LoneWolfe_ll in a post. "These are truly troubling times for the residents of my island!"

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Ryan Hurst was just recently announced as the actor who will play Kratos in the upcoming God of War live-action TV series. The Sons of Anarchy actor has now reacted to the announcement, saying he feels "grateful to pick up the axe."

Posting on Instagram, Hurst wrote, "Used to play as him. Now I get to be him."

He added: "Grateful to pick up the axe, and honored by the fans who made this story legendary."

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This Sunday's NFL playoffs divisional round matchup between the New England Patriots and the Houston Texans will feature a World of Warcraft-themed attraction for tailgaters, and it's because Blizzard's data shows that its players love sports.

The World of Warcraft: Welcome Home Pre-Game Tavern, as it's called, is a marketing activation that's meant to promote WoW's upcoming Midnight expansion. Inside the tavern, people can get a drink and watch World of Warcraft livestreams. They can also meet cosplayers and influencers; the Orc cosplayers will be inside the stadium for the game itself.

The Midnight expansion adds player housing, which is something fans have been requesting for years. Blizzard is also partnering with real estate company Zillow on this branded partnership, according to Sports Business Journal.

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Jason Momoa will return in A Minecraft Movie 2, and now he's shared a few more details about it. Appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Momoa confirmed that production will begin at the end of April and that he's read the script and found it to be very funny.

"The script is even better. It's so good. I was laughing out loud," Momoa said. "I haven't laughed out loud in a very long time at a script."

Momoa went on to say he was "perplexed" by the script for the original A Minecraft Movie. But the sequel's script had him "laughing out loud."

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Earlier this month, some Monster Hunter Wilds players reported that the game actually performed better on Steam when it has more DLC installed. Word about that improvement spread quickly among the Monster Hunter Wilds community, but the real reason for the game's improvement isn't about whether the game has DLC. Instead, the problem arises when Monster Hunter Wilds checks for DLC.

Digital Foundry debunked the notion that more DLC was speeding up Monster Hunter Wilds. Instead, DF discovered that there's an automatic check for DLC that greatly impacts Wilds' performance. According to the report, when the option for DLC content was offered, the game itself "checked for DLC thousands upon thousands of times, adding to the CPU load of an already over-burdened processor" in less than a minute.

Essentially, this recurring issue in the hub area near a Support Desk Felynes has nothing to do with the DLC itself; it's happening because the game is constantly checking for DLC. That's slowing everything down, even if there isn't any DLC to be found.

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Arc Raiders was one of the big hits from 2025, and Embark isn't going to let that momentum wane in 2026. The studio has indicated that there are multiple new maps on the horizon, as well as an upcoming content roadmap.

"There are going to be multiple maps coming this year," said Arc Raiders design lead Virgil Watkins during an interview with GamesRadar. "And I think it's going to be across a spectrum of size to try to facilitate different types of gameplay. So you might see some that are smaller, and you might see some that are even grander than what we've got now."

Watkins didn't share specific details about what will be featured in the new maps, but he added that "the ambition is to try to pair it with some new type of experience, whether that's the map conditions or weather conditions we put in that make the play feel different, enemy types or compositions feeling different, or we're escalating the types of loot available there."

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The newest Nielsen ratings have arrived, showing a gigantic drop-off for Fallout Season 2 compared to Fallout Season 1. However, there is an obvious explanation for the dip.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fallout viewership reached 794 million minutes on Prime Video for the week of December 15-21, which covers when Season 2 debuted on December 16. Season 1 racked up 2.9 billion minutes of streaming time during its own opening week in April 2024. That's a 72% decrease, but the massive downturn was no doubt attributable to how the two seasons were released.

Season 1, many may recall, was released in a binge format with all episodes arriving at the same time. Season 2, meanwhile, is adopting a weekly release schedule. What's more, just one episode of Fallout Season 2 was released on December 16, compared to two or three that Prime Video does for some of its other shows.

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As part of a joke that is perhaps going too far, the markedly terrible Cory in the House game is not only closely trailing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in user ratings, but sealed copies of it are priced for hundreds of dollars online.

There are numerous listings for the Nintendo DS game on eBay, with prices ranging from $50 to $1,420.69 (har, har). One listing even has 44 bids and currently prices the game at $1,025.00.

This bizarre event appears to stem from the Best Games by User Score list of GameSpot sister site Metacritic, which currently has 2025 Game of the Year winner Clair Obscur sitting at the top with a 9.6 user score. But because the internet loves a good gag, Cory in the House has recently surfaced as the runner-up with a score of 9.3, tied with The Witcher 3, two versions of Metal Gear Solid 3, the original Silent Hill 2, and a couple of other classics.

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Following the recent announcement that Ryan Hurst will play Kratos in the upcoming God of War TV series at Prime Video, another casting detail has come to light.

Deadline reports that Teresa Palmer will star on the show as Phoebe/Sif, who is Thor's wife. The Australian actor and model is known for her work on the TV shows The Family Next Door and The Last Anniversary. She also had roles in the movies Warm Bodies and The Fall Guy.

The God of War TV show, which hails from Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore, has already been ordered for two seasons. Frederick E.O. Toye (The Boys, Fallout) is directing the first two episodes. There is no release date yet.

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Helldivers 2 prides itself on the concept of Managed Democracy, and in the latest example of crowdsourced decision-making, the game is asking players to choose a planet to blow up with a shiny new not-a-Death-Star superweapon. Fortunately, these planets aren't home to any brave Helldivers and are instead populated by the undemocratic factions that refuse to yield to Super Earth.

The latest twist in the Helldivers 2 saga kicked off last week when Super Earth announced that it was upgrading the Democracy Space Station with the Star of Peace weapon. The platform can now fire a "macro-scale laser" optimized for "mass Freedom dispensation" that collapses an entire planet into a black hole.

Helldivers players are now being asked to boot up the Democracy Space Station voting panel from their Galactic Map and choose one of three planets: Zagon Prime, Penta, or Valmox. These are held by the Terminids, Automatons, and Illuminate, respectively.

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Hytale is the long-in-development Minecraft competitor from the team at Hypixel. What was once a very popular Minecraft server is now its own standalone experience that rivals Mojang's massive survival game in some ways, with plans to challenge it a lot more over time, no doubt. If you're jumping into Hytale to see what all the hype is about, you'll benefit from our guides on the game, which tackle the burning questions players may have as the game is now in early access.

Starter guides

The guides we have on Hytale for now all comfortably fit under one category: starter guides. This is because the game has only just launched and, by the studio's own admission, there's plenty of work still to be done.

For now, you can jump into Hytale and enjoy an experience much like the early hours of Minecraft. You'll build a modest home, begin crafting objects, and probably wind up dead in a mine somewhere, only to respawn at your bed.

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There are few things more important in Hytale than the armor your character equips. Armor can save you from dying to a dangerous mob when you're exploring at night or in a dark cave. It also plays a large part in how your character looks, which does play a factor in your experience if you play in third person. While you might have already figured out how to craft the most basic armor in Hytale, there are several more advanced options that offer stronger protection from mobs.

The guide below shows you all of the current crafting recipes we have for armor in Hytale. As a note, some armor that you see in a Creative-mode world might not be available in Survival yet, similar to our guide on all Hytale weapons.

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• How to craft armor in Hytale

How to craft armor in HytaleA character donning some rare armor in Hytale

If you view your character from the inventory screen in Hytale, you'll see that you have four available slots to equip armor. These slots are for your Helm, Gauntlets, Cuirass, and Greaves. For some reason, there is no dedicated boot slot, but maybe that will be added in a future update. You also have a slot for a shield, but that's not necessarily armor, so we won't be covering those crafting recipes.

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Your starting inventory space in Hytale is likely all you need early on. You won't have access to a huge amount of resources or gear yet, so your inventory is plenty for what you need until you build a chest for extra storage. However, as you go along, you'll find more and more materials to pick up, which fills up your inventory quickly. While you might think you'll always be left with the default inventory size, that's not the case in Hytale.

How to unlock the backpack in Hytale

To increase the size of your inventory, you need to unlock and use the backpack in Hytale. The backpack is a separate item from the default inventory, but its sole goal is to give you more slots to put items.

Fortunately, the backpack is unlocked fairly early on in Hytale, as all you have to do is upgrade your workbench to tier two. You can read about all Hytale workbenches in our previous guide, but getting a workbench to tier two requires the following resources:

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One of the big highlights of Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 3.0 update is the new Slumber Islands feature. This feature lets you fully customize additional islands, providing you with more freedom to design than your standard home island. You can also enjoy customizing Slumber Islands with friends. In this guide, we'll explain how to access Slumber Islands and how to use this new sandbox-style feature.

The 3.0 update also includes a new Resort Hotel to unlock and a new way to tidy your island with Resetti's Reset Service. We have a complete Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub to help you with all of your island needs. The list includes starter tips, details surrounding timed seasonal events, how to complete all the upgrades, and more.

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Three masked suspects stormed a newly opened Pokemon store and stole over $100,000 worth of collectibles--including rare cards, $1,000 in cash, and a cell phone--according to reports, employees, and police.

As reported by Fox5NY, The Poke Court opened its doors in New York's Meatpacking District in November 2025. Specializing in Pokemon collectibles and trading cards, the store was hosting its first-ever arts and crafts community event on January 14 when three masked men--wearing anime backpacks and hoodies, according to the New York Post--rushed the shop around 6:45 P.M. ET with hammers and a handgun to commit the crime.

Video surveillance of the incident obtained by ABC7NY showed the armed suspects threatening the roughly 40 customers inside the store and smashing myriad display cases to gain access to the rare cards. According to the NYPost and the Poke Court's Instagram story, the masked individuals made off with cards (as old as 1999 and as new as 2016) featuring Charizard, Ho-Oh, Pikachu, and Treecko, totalling over $116,000 in value. They also snatched $1,000 and a 27-year-old's phone.

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Are you hoping to grow Money Trees in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? These plants can easily help you amass tons of cash, enough to buy a bunch of furniture and other items. That said, you need to spend a few days on the island until you can get your rewards.

Find all of our guides on Nintendo's beloved life sim, including those on the 3.0 update, in our Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides hub.

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• Where to find and plant Money Trees or Bell Trees

Where to find and plant Money Trees or Bell Trees

Money Trees, also known as Bell Trees, are far from natural fixtures on your island. Rather, they actually need to be planted, and you also need to wait until they're fully grown.

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Lego Ocarina of Time: The Final Battle (1,003 pieces)

$130 | Releases March 31

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Lego has officially revealed its next Legend of Zelda set, a massive 1,003-piece kit that recreates the epic showdown between Link, Princess Zelda, and Ganon from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Priced at $130, the set will be released on March 1, and preorders are now open at The Lego Store.

Lego Ocarina of Time: The Final Battle (1,003 pieces) $130 | Releases March 31

This Lego set comes with minifigures of Link, Zelda, and Ganon in his human form, but the main event here is Ganon in his final boss form. The villain towers over the minifigures, and he features several points of articulation, two swords, and a deadly tail. You'll also get all the pieces you need to construct Na'Vi and a diorama stage that replicates Ganon's castle from the classic N64 game.

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Lego has ventured to Hyrule before, with the first Legend of Zelda kit, The Great Deku Tree, a well-received set that gave fans all the pieces they needed to build the legendary sage. This is available on backorder through the Lego Store for $300, and the two-in-one set allows you build a display of the Deku Tree as depicted in Breath of the Wild and Ocarina of Time. Once fully assembled, it has interactive features, including an animated face that can be controlled with a lever on its back and an opening mouth that reveals a Skulltula monster.

Lego Nintendo sets

• Lego Ocarina of Time: The Final Battle (1,003 pieces) -- $130 | March 1
• Lego The Legend of Zelda: Great Deku Tree 2-in-1 (2,500 pieces) -- $300
• Lego Game Boy (421 Pieces) -- $60
• Lego Pokemon: Eevee (587 Pieces) -- $60 | February 27
• Lego Pokemon: Pikachu and Poke Ball (2,050 Pieces) -- $200 | February 27
• Lego Pokemon: Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise (6,838 Pieces) -- $650

The other big Lego Nintendo set released last year was the Lego Game Boy. An almost 1:1 scale replica of the original handheld, the completed model replicates the unit's working buttons, volume sliders, and a lenticular screen. You can grab one from Amazon right now for $60.

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The Sony Pictures live-action The Legend of Zelda movie will be exclusive to Netflix following its theatrical run, Netflix and Sony Pictures have announced as part of a larger deal.

The Netflix / Sony deal is a multi-year "Pay-1" agreement that begins this year. The Zelda movie was singled out in Netflix's announcement as some of the first SPE movies that will come to Netflix. Others include The Nightingale, Buds, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-verse, and the new Beatles movies from director Sam Mendes.

Deadline reported that Sony also considered making a deal with Amazon, but "Netflix stepped up." The report said the value of the deal is $7 billion, but neither Netflix nor Sony confirmed this.

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