How To Solve Today's Connections, Solution #540

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....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 214 words · Lauren Lawrence

How To Start All Side Quests In Ys Memoire: The Oath In Felghana

Outside of the many regions and dungeons you will naturally explore as part of the central story ofYs Memoire: The Oath in Felghana, there are also many side quests for you to tackle that offer a wide range of rewards, making them well worth your time and effort to seek out and complete. While there aren’t a boatload of side quests as you might expect from a JRPG, there are enough that you can completely miss some of them, which won’t be acceptable again until subsequent playthroughs, making them all the more crucial to grab as soon as possible and finish!...

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 258 words · Isaac Moore

How To Transfer Save Data Between Devices For Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete

Quick Links With the launch ofAnimal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, you likely won’t want to start from scratch if you’ve already been playing the original version. Fortunately, there is a way to transfer over your progress from Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp to the new Complete edition. Be warned there is only a limited time to transfer your original Pocket Camp data, so don’t forget or you’ll lose out on your past progress forever....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 422 words · Jennifer Moore

How To Win Battles For The Pokemon TCG Pocket Genetic Apex Emblem Event 1

Quick Links While some players have expressed concern that there’s little to do after burning through your initial bonuses,Pokemon TCG Pocketseems to be focused on providing a steady stream of events to keep players engaged. Only a week after the worldwide release, a third event is now active. The Genetic Apex Emblem Event 1 is the first competition against other players, and it rewards you with emblems that can be displayed on your player profile....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 599 words · Kelsey Morris

Lords Of The Fallen Dev Is Wrong About Politics, And Elden Ring Proves It

Lords of the Fallendeveloper CI Games recently pledged thatit won’t include “social and political elements” in its gamesgoing forward, because “players do not appreciate this”. It’s a flimsy argument that caters to a very angry but vocal minority of players, and looking at its inspirations proves how little weight this narrative has. Social and political undertones are at the root of every Soulslike. Dark Soulsis incredibly overt in its critique of classism....

June 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1181 words · Christopher Wade

Marvel Rivals Fans Want Cyclops And Ms. Marvel To Be Added Next

Marvel Rivalshas a pretty massive number of characters to try out, given it’s a game that launched not even a month ago. Sure, most of them are Duelists, which iscausing some headaches regarding team composition, but it’s still great that the game has so many options right off the bat, and not all of them are Marvel mainstays. Gamers are always looking forward though, and even though we can’t possibly have gone through and mastered each character we’ve been given so far, there are already calls from some for certain characters to be added next....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 649 words · James Tucker

Minecraft Discord Server Becomes Hotspot For Military Secret Leaks

War Thunder, the military vehicle MMO, is popular for two things. Firstly, for the accuracy of the military vehicles in the game, and for being the causeofnumerousmilitarysecretleaks. It’s just ridiculous how many times it’s happened, but it looks like they’ve got a handle on it now. However, it looks like the leaks are popping up elsewhere now. A 22-year old former US Air National Guard member named Jack Teixeira has reportedly been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing military secrets and sharing them on a Minecraft Discord server with his friends....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 386 words · Cynthia Simmons

Minecraft Movie Fans Aren't Too Happy With The Animated Mobs

Summary TheMinecraftMovie is currently regarded by many with cautious curiosity. Though the property is an exceedingly popular one, and there are beloved actors in the cast, everything we’ve seen from the movie so far is puzzling, from the lighting, the dialogue and the overall design choice, which is a weird mash-up of surreal CGI and live-action. Ahead of a trailer tomorrow, the official Minecraft account released a behind-the-scenes look at the production, including our first look at the zombie, skeleton and creeper....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Amanda Jones

PlayStation Is Cutting The Price Of PS Plus For Black Friday

Summary Black Friday is fast approaching and with just nine days to go, some of the bigger players in the video game industry are starting to confirm their plans for the biggest sale event of the year. That now includesPlayStationwhich has confirmed it will be discounting DualSense controllers, putting some of its recent releases on sale, and most important of all, cutting the price ofPS Plusfor a limited time. PlayStation confirmed some of its Black Friday plansin a blog post published on Wednesday, confirming its sale will begin this Friday, November 22, a full week before Black Friday arrives....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 295 words · Paul Barr

Pokemon Fan Shows What Animal Crossing Crossover Game Would Look Like

Summary YouTuber and artist Beefu! posted an adorable video yesterday that shows what a retroPokemonxAnimal Crossingvideo game would look like, starring Mimikyu as a villager. “Um… hi there, kyu! I was just getting ready f- ACK! Oh no… is my face… again… I need a mirror, pronto! Or… You , could you fix it for me?” Mimikyu asks. They’re basically the Pokemon stand-in for Blanca, as the video shows the player drawing them a variety of new faces to choose from....

June 15, 2025 · 2 min · 356 words · Lauren Flynn

Pokemon Go's Reward Road Seemingly Costs $500 A Month To Complete

Summary Eight years on from its hugely successful launch,Pokemon Gocontinues to grow and change so that the mobile game can continue to keep players interested and potentially entice new fans to join the fun. It seems unlikely the app’s new Reward Road program will be all that appealing to most who play Pokemon Go whether they’re new or have been around from the start considering the amount they’ll be expected to spend to truly benefit from it....

June 15, 2025 · 3 min · 553 words · Kayla Soto

Should Dragon Age Use Modern Words Like 'Non-Binary'?

As anyone with the internet will have seen by now,Dragon Age: The Veilguardfeaturesa non-binary companion. More to the point, it uses that language specifically to describe them. This has been an intense topic of debate ever since the game launched, and even leaving aside those who simply do not wish to see non-binary people (or anyone who is diverse and yet not hot) in a video game, Taash remains a bone of contention....

June 15, 2025 · 6 min · 1098 words · Amanda Crawford

Split Fiction Shows That It Take Two's Dark Humor Wasn't An Accident

It Takes Twois an incredibly well-designed game. Every level in the 2021 co-op platformer follows an exciting progression of introducing ideas, developing them in fascinating ways, then dropping them entirely. In thefirst trailer for Split Fiction, the long-awaited follow-up from Hazelight Studios, that build-it-then-dump-it approach hasn’t changed. Narrating a bit of gameplay, director Josef Fares highlighted one level whereSplit Fiction’s dual protagonists find eggs which hatch into baby dragons that ride on the heroes’ backs, allowing them to glide and shoot fire....

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 732 words · Anna Moss