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The Super Bowl is going to be chock full of ads and movie trailers, but if you stay tuned after the game you’ll get an extra treat. Disney Pixar has teased in a short clip that a sneak peek of Toy Story 4 will follow the big game.

The clip features the new characters Ducky and Bunny, who debuted in their own teaser in November. That could signal that the sneak peek will revolve around them, though we’d expect to see at least an appearance from more well-known characters like Woody and Buzz.

Just recently, a separate teaser announced the return of Bo Peep, Woody’s love interest who went missing in the third movie. We’ve also met a new character named Forky, who is exactly what he sounds like: a plastic fork with a make-shift face. Pixar has said that this movie is about the gang discovering how big the world is for a toy.

Several companies have already started debuting or even just teasing their own ads that will air during the Super Bowl, so check out all the ones we’ve seen so far. We also expect to see some surprise movie trailers, especially for blockbusters like the Marvel cinematic universe. As you wait and stock up for the big game, check out some of the best commercials in Super Bowl history, or study up on everything we know about Toy Story 4.

Super Bowl 53 airs on CBS, whose parent company also owns GameSpot.

Challenges for Season 7, Week 9 of Fortnite are now live, and for one of them, you’ll have to embark on a dancing pilgrimage around the island. Specifically, the challenge requires you to locate three key landmarks, hop on top of them and then do a little dance to earn the precious Battle Stars. Those with good knowledge of the map will probably be able to get this done real quick, but if you need a guiding hand, we’re here to offer one. Below you’ll find a breakdown of the challenge, as well as exactly where you should go to complete it.

So, the three landmarks you need to find are a sundial, an oversized cup of coffee, and a giant metal dog head. All there are spread out across the map, so it may be easier to find one, drop out of the game, and then fly out of the Battle Bus to the next and so on. The sundial can be found in the bottom right of the island in the desert area. Head to grid reference G9 and look for a hill north of the gas station. You’ll see a bunch of cars stacked in a very strange way–that’s your sundial.

Next up is the oversized cup of coffee, which you’ll need to drop into grid reference F5 to find. Head to the Dusty Divot diner, specifically the parking lot, and you’ll see the caffeinated beast there. If you’re approaching it from the front, it’s on the left of the car park area. And finally, the giant metal dog head is all the way up in the top left of the island at Junk Junction. Hop over to grid reference B2 and look for the crane on the left of the entrance, which has a little dog face on it. Get to the very top of the crane–the head as it were–and bust a move. Take a look at the map below for a visual representation, and there are also screenshots showing the exact locations.

Fortnite Sundial, Oversized Cup of Coffee, Giant Metal Dog Head Locations

• Sundial: Southwest of Paradise Palms at grid reference G9
• Oversized Coffee Cup: Dusty Divot diner at grid reference F5
• Giant Metal Dog Head: Junk Junction at the top of the crane; grid reference B2

The rest of the challenges for the week are fairly straightforward, and you can get a breakdown of them all here. Of course, the wintry event in Fortnite is ongoing and, as part of that, a new weapon called the Chiller Grenade has been added to the game. It arrived in update 7.30, which also introduced the Solid Gold limited-time mode. You can read about both of those, as well as the various other tweaks and changes, in the full Fortnite update 7.30 patch notes.

Release dates for video games have becoming increasingly murky in recent years for a variety of reasons. Often a game comes out on one day but can be accessed a few days early if you pre-order, and different regions sometimes get new releases on different days. With Anthem, the upcoming RPG shooter from BioWare, things are even more complicated even without regional differences, prompting publisher EA to release a chart to both help you figure out when you can play and illustrating just how unusual the situation is.

The problem is that you can obtain Anthem in multiple ways, including some options that don’t involve directly purchasing it. Those on PC can get into the full game as early as February 15, provided you subscribe to Origin Access Premier–EA’s pricey $15/£15 per month or $100/£90 per year service that gets you access to its new releases, among other things.

If you’re on Xbox One, you can also start playing Anthem on February 15, but only for 10 hours total; you can do this by subscribing to EA Access, letting you try a chunk of the game without buying it. If you’re on PC and are a subscriber to the platform’s EA Access equivalent, Origin Access, you also get 10 hours to play starting on February 15.

Those on PS4 don’t have the ability to subscribe to any Access-style service from EA, so you’ll have to wait until the actual release date–February 22–to play, at which time you can buy the full game. That’s also the day that buyers of the $80/£70 Legion of Dawn edition get in; this special edition does not come with any kind of early access. Pre-ordering any version of the game also does not get you in early. Here’s all of this information in chart form, courtesy of EA’s support Twitter account:

Figuring out when you can start playing is just a matter of finding your path to the game in that chart, but it’s nonetheless striking that a chart is needed for what should be a simple fact. Confusion aside, this might also prove frustrating for groups of friends looking to play together who are acquiring the full game at different times–or it might just drive users to subscribe to one of the Access services, which is likely what EA wants.

Following the recent issue-plagued VIP demo, a second Anthem demo runs this weekend, from February 1-3. It features a variety of fixes, and there’s a tease for some kind of special event toward the end of the demo on Sunday. For more, check out our experience with Anthem and what its endgame looks like.

If you’re planning to complete all the challenges for Week 9 of Fortnite‘s seventh season, you’ll need to hunt down some balloons and pop them. Sounds fun, right? It is! However, it can also be a bit frustrating since the island is very big, and those pesky balloons can be a bit inconspicuous. The challenge requires you to pop “10 golden balloons,” which is slightly misleading as they’re closer to silver than golden. To make it easier for you, we’ve put together a guide for where they can be found.

All you’ve got to do is head to the locations below, locate the balloons, and fire off a shot to pop it. Then, move to the next one, rinse, and repeat until you’ve got all 10. It’s a good idea to pack a weapon with some range as, now and then, you may find people waiting nearby to take you out, so being able to pop them from safety is certainly handy.

Fortnite Golden Balloon Locations

• Grid reference I2 on the roof of the brick house
• Grid reference B2 on the roof of the mausoleum
• Grid reference J5 on the tower at Lonely Lodge
• Grid reference I6 on the bear statue south of Retail Row
• Grid reference G4 in the area outside Tomato Temple
• Grid reference H5 attached to an electricity pylon
• Grid reference F6 on one of the structures in the middle of Dusty Divot
• Grid reference E4 on an abandoned boat in Loot Lake
• Grid reference D2 in the “O” of the destroyed motel sign
• Grid reference J3 next to the truck hanging off the edge of the cliff

The other tricky challenge for the week involves finding three specific objects on the island to dance on top of: a sundial, an oversized cup of coffee, and a metal dog head. Sound familiar? You’ve probably seen them dozens of times, but you can use our location guide to pinpoint exactly where they are and get the challenge done.

Microsoft announced its fiscal results for the quarter ending December 31, 2018, and it has some positive numbers almost across the board for its Xbox gaming division. The Xbox business went up year-over-year by almost every metric, except for hardware revenue, which decreased.

According to the company, gaming revenue increased by 8%, at a total of $4.23 billion. Xbox software and services revenue increased by the most at 31%, thanks to the strength of third-parties. Xbox Live monthly active users are also up 8%, totaling 64 million. That figure includes Gold and Silver members, as well as users on Windows 10 and smartphones.

Hardware didn’t fare quite so well. It was down 19%, which Microsoft credits largely to the year-over-year comparison putting it against the launch of the Xbox One X in 2017. Overall, company revenue was up 12% for a total of $32.5 billion.

Microsoft’s Xbox division has been making big moves as it prepares for the future. It has plans to expand Game Pass to PC, and has acquired a long list of studios to produce more first-party content. Those include Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Playground Games, Compulsion Games, and most recently, Obsidian and InXile. It has also announced a game-streaming service that will begin rolling out in beta this year, and it’s at work on the multiple new Xbox consoles.

The company recently teased “new Microsoft technologies” while touting its line-up for 2019. Recently Xbox head Phil Spencer said they’ll be “going big” at E3 this year, following Sony’s announcement that it’s dropping out altogether.