Quick Links While most Game Packs only add a few new mechanics,The Sims 4:Snowy Escape pack adds a pretty hefty amount of new content. Snowy escape has something for the thrill seekers, the vacationers, and the workaholics. Mixed in with the new festivals and outdoor adventures added in this pack, is the Salary Person Career. As a Salary Person, your Sims get to experience the exciting world of data analytics, spreadsheets, and corporate supervision!...

Quick Links The Fallout franchisefeels like an ideal pairing forMagic: The Gathering’sUniverses Beyondinitiative; Fallout has all the usual bombastic settings, deadly creatures, and eccentric characters you’d expect in a normal Magic set. The crossover feels organic, brought to life through the lens of fourpreconstructed Commander decks. Hail, Caesar in particular highlights one of the key features of the Fallout universe: the cruelty of some of its bloodthirsty inhabitants and the constant conflict at hand across the wastes....

Quick Links Helldivers 2has intense combat that puts divers against two notorious factions called Terminids and Automatons. While there is infinite chaos when you set foot on the planet, there is a total respite when you are back the Destroyer. If you are in a four-man squad, you can interact with your teammates using emotes. It is a fun way to elevate a mood, strengthen bonds with friends or strangers, and raise the morale of squadmates before jumping from the Hellpod onto the planet....

Quick Links Though P3 and its current remake,Persona 3 Reload, was the first game in the Persona series to offer social links, there aren’t many that you can spend time with at night. But, if you would like to give up a few evenings of going to Tartarus or building your social stats, consider befriending Mutatsu. The monk who hangs out at Club Escapade when he’s not doing religious duties is the Tower social link in P3R, and after you’re Courageous enough to introduce yourself, he’s got a wealth of life lessons to give so you don’t end up like him....

Quick Links There’s plenty of emphasis on time with your social links inPersona 3 Reload, but you won’t meet the character who represents the Star arcana – Mamoru Hayase – until the beginning of August. The good news there is that it gives you time to level up enough to bring a Star Persona with you when you hang out. Following a summer track meet, Hayase asks you to meet him at Iwatodai Strip Mall for a bite to eat from time to time, unfurling the story of an eldest brother doing his best to fill in the gaps his dad left behind....

Quick Links Several more characters await the Alliance’s invitation (and Nowa’s displays of prowess) upon reaching theEastern Desertregion inEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. A couple of them will join as part of the main story; in fact, you’re there specifically to recruit them. The rest will take some extra work. Some are in the town of Dabavin; others are in the capital of Impershi’arc. We’ll be going over how to snag each of them for service as well as what you can expect each of them to bring to the table when you’re planning out your party in the fights to come....

Quick Links Picture a suffocating darkness, deeper than thought, stretching endlessly above. No stars pierce the inky void, only a gnawing emptiness that follows you. A horrifying truth dawns: this boundless night isn’t a sky, but a colossal cave. This is the lot of the Underdark, and you, playingDungeons & Dragons, must now attempt to eke out an existence for your character beneath it. In a realm where the terrifying is mundane and horror is a way of life, the land of the drow may seem daunting to run on your own....

Quick Links It’s a new day and that means a new puzzle wall to solve in the New York Times’sConnectionsgame. If you’re looking to save your streak and only want to nail down that last pesky category, don’t worry - we have all the hints you could need. You’ll find everything you need below, from vague hints as to what you should be looking for to the outright answers. Whether you’re looking for a nudge in the right direction or a sneaky way to preserve your blemish-free record, you’ve come to the right place....

Quick Links Disney Lorcana’sInto the Inklands expansion brought us two new starter decks full of characters, action, items, and locations to help you kickstart your collection. The Amber/Emerald deck, Dogged and Dynamic, is a go-wide deck full of adorable pups, Neverland heroes, and a few fan-favorite TaleSpin characters to round things out. This deck already has a clear strategy, but there are a number of changes you can make tohelp it be more consistent and competitive....

Quick Links D&D Beyond is one of the most widely-used online resources forDungeons & Dragonsfans, both new and veteran. They provide access to a myriad of official resources and sourcebooks while also supplying the ability to integrate homebrew materials into a campaign, with pages upon pages of fellow players' creations available at the click of a button. Some Dungeon Masters have completely stopped purchasing hardcover copies from stores, preferring instead to buy all the content directly from D&D Beyond to build their characters or furnish their campaigns....

It’s always been a sore spot for me that almost every classic game that my peers and friends played as kids completely passed me by. As a little Asian kid who was, stereotypically, told that my academic success was more important than my interest in gaming, my access to video games was severely limited. Add to that the fact that all my friends at that age were equally dedicated to school over other hobbies, and you get someone with a severely stunted understanding of the video game canon....

Video game portrayals of sex workers have long been distasteful and discriminatory, in keeping with the stigma against them in real life. Lots of people hold violent, hateful attitudes towards them, and we see that reflected in the media we consume and the games we play. Editor in chief Stacey Henley wrotea great pieceabout the portrayal of sex workers several years ago, exploring how games like GTA, Red Dead Redemption and Saints Row even allow you to inflict violence on full service workers, and imply that violence is part of every sex worker’s life....

Like a lot of people, my love of theYakuzaseries started with the Western release ofYakuza 0back in 2017. I had been told it was this incredible, dense, sandbox adventure comparable toGTAin Japan (it really isn’t), so I gave it a shot out of curiosity. Obviously, with these misconceptions, I bounced off pretty hard the first time around. It was dark, slow, depressing, and didn’t feature a singlePokemon, so why would I have cared?...