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Eurogamer.net •

How to get a job in inZOI

Most Zois will need to get a job in order to make money and pay for things - and to achieve their ambitions and to work towards their desired life in inZOI.
There are lots of careers available in inZOI and the ability to get promoted, too.
In this guide we’ll explain how jobs work in inZOI, including how to get a job, what jobs are available, and how to advance your Zoi’s career.
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How to get a job in inZOI
Jobs are controlled through the smartphone, which you can access from the ba...
Eurogamer.net •

Dragon Age The Veilguard best Slayer build

Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers a range of specialisations for each class. The Slayer is a Warrior specialisation that emphasises dealing massive damage at close range.
It also makes good use of the Stagger mechanics and Rage generation in Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
To learn how to become an effective Slayer, check out this guide to the Dragon Age: The Veilguard Slayer build, which will give some tips on how to play the Slayer as well as including the best skills, equipment, and enchantments t...
Polygon •

Eastern Temple and ‘Let’s Play a Game’ quest walkthrough for Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The Eastern Temple is a mini dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom that’s home to the “Let’s Play a Game” side quest. You’ll need to defeat the monster in the temple for the archeologist Sago, who wants to continue his work there. In this Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom guide, we’ll show you how to get through the Eastern Temple and complete the “Let’s Play a Game” quest, including letting you know how to beat the temple boss, Smog. Head to the Eastern Temple, which is, fittingly, to th...

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Unwinnable •

Can You Kill the Dog? - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #176. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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[This article contains spoilers for Hades II’s early access]

Hades’ Cerberus began life as a sweet, pettable little guy who had never done anything wrong in his life.

When the original game was in early access, there was no reason for the hound of hell to be a real e...
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Supergiant’s Scrappier, Better Underworld - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #175. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Hades and Hades II both take place in mythological underworlds. In the original, Zagreus flees the House of Hades, fights through Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium and the Temple of Styx, all based on the underworld of Greek mythology filtered through thousands of years of h...
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A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #174. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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“No signs, no rules,” insists Snufkin in Melody of Moominvalley. A park keeper has come and turned the wilderness into a handful of neatly gated, orderly gardens. Police orders enforce the prohibitions written on signs: no camping, no touching, no stopping to smell the...
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Some Questions I Personally Find Interesting About Paint - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #173. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Is Cloud Strife guided by the hand of God?

I’m playing a game of Dungeon World right now as a cleric, and clerics get two guidance spells right off the bat, with the opportunity to acquire more as they level up. My cleric is also (perhaps unsurprisingly) a very devout...
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Seasonal Space - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #172. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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One of the few TikTok accounts I miss, after successfully extricating the app from my day to day, is Frankie Simmons. I don’t remember when I discovered her, but I do remember that it was before last winter. Several videos from that time stick in my brain: her talking...
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The Call is Coming from Inside the Courtroom - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #171. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Courtrooms, especially in the UK, are spaces where ritual is given great weight. Rise for the judge, take an oath, stay quiet and respectful at all times.

They’re also spaces of the truly absurd. The robes and wigs worn by barristers and judges are, quite literally, o...
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Space at Sea - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #170. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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When I say that space is socially constructed, I usually think of the green places. Maybe this is a personal bias. The first time I encountered the concept was in anthropologist and archaeologist Barbara Bender’s case study of the train poster showing open English coun...
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Open World Vampires - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #168. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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“Places are increasingly being restructured as centres for consumption,” and “places themselves are in a sense consumed,” and “places can be literally consumed . . . depleted, devoured, and exhausted by use,” and “it is possible for localities to consume one’s identity...
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Space in Translation - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #167. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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If I were playing Baldur’s Gate 3 as a D&D game, I’m absolutely convinced that I’d be the most annoying player at the table.

“I’m going to push them off the edge.” “Okay, roll an athletics check.”

“I’m going to push them off the edge.” “Roll athletics.”

“I’m going t...
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Space in Space - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #165. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Mars First Logistics might be the first truly successful open world game I’ve ever played.

I’m not an open world hater. I remain an Assassin’s Creed girlie no matter how bloated they get. But almost every open world game struggles with the point A to point B journey....
Unwinnable •

All’s Well in the Kingdom - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #164. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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I feel like I should be a bigger fan of the Koroks in the latest two Legend of Zelda games.

The idea of having a funny little guy pop up as a reward for exploration and curiosity about the smaller corners of Hyrule’s vast open world is a good one. But soon into Breath...
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Flooded Memories - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #163. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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The flood myth is one of the oldest and most widespread stories humanity has. Cultures from around the globe and across time have told similar tales: deluges, water rising uncontrollably and sweeping away land and lives.

Some scholars speculate that many of these myth...
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Moving Sitting Still - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #161. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Octopath Traveller 2’s 2.5D world is undeniably gorgeous. I chose the beastling hunter Ochette as my starting character and spent the first chapter luxuriating in the forests of her island home. Every new screen gave a chance to dawdle and take in the way the sunlight...
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"The Abundant Nature" - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #159. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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I wanted to clown on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet from the second I saw the “abundant nature” trailer.

Obviously, that’s not actually what the trailer is called, but it lodged in my brain like that. In fact, I thought that it was my first impression of the game because...
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Plorts Are Poop - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #157. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Slime Rancher 2 is a game about selling poop.

The cheerful work simulator is constantly grappling with its own identity. The main task of the game is rounding up slime and corralling them into pens so that they can turn a profit. But it’s self-aware of that and covere...
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Contested Landscapes - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #156. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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In her book Stonehenge: Making Space, anthropologist and geographer Barbara Bender invites us to think of landscapes as something contested. Meanings are made by combining its inherent qualities with the subjective viewpoint of the observer. To English Heritage, Stoneh...
Unwinnable •

Forward to Where? - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #192. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Okomotive make games about moving forward. In both Far: Lone Sails and Far: Changing Tides, you play as the driver of a huge, rickety vehicle; in Herdling you play as the driver of a herd of goat-like Calicorns. In all three games, you constantly go, until you can’t an...
Unwinnable •

Take My Hand - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #189. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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The group chat has taken to calling it Horror June. Almost all of you are having a rough time, and it helps to give it a name. An easy way of saying, yeah, we’re all in this together.

For you, it is primarily a crisis of confidence. Everything you do seems to let some...
Unwinnable •

Leaving, Staying - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #188. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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In Citizen Sleeper you begin by arriving on the Eye. You have escaped Essen-Arp, the corporation that built your body, although they will come and find you soon enough. But there’s nothing you can do about that. Leaving the Eye is almost impossible. You’re just going t...
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Space Without Story - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #187. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Split Fiction is the worst written game I have played this year. It is also the game that got me back on board with the medium.

Split Fiction is a co-op platformer in which you and a friend each play as one of two novel writers who are trapped in their own books. Exce...
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Ka-Boom - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #185. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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There’s a bit right near the end of Avowed where you’re moving through a dungeon but the path ahead is blocked. “There must be another way nearby,” says one companion. Turning very slightly to the left, you see a big cracked wall with two conspicuously placed red barre...
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Worldbuilding - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #184. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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I keep wondering if, in several years, when I look back on my trip to Argentina, I’m going to remember that I spent a huge percentage of the time mentally inhabiting a TTRPG setting.

At the end of 2022, I said that I was going to put a pause on travelling, because I h...
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Language Roots - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #183. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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[This piece contains spoilers for Chants of Sennaar.]

Chants of Sennaar is a language-based puzzle game set on a brightly-colored Tower of Babel, with dramatic architecture, views over unearthly vistas and five separate cultures that need to be understood in order to...
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The Local Horror of Dark Academia - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #180. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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[This piece contains spoilers for R. F. Kuang’s Babel, or the Necessity of Violence]

When dark academia blew up during the lockdown era, it felt more like a rerun for me. Not only was I hooked into the Tumblr trend in the mid-2010s, I was also at university, living in...
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Molokhia - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #179. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Venba is a game about a family who moves from India to Canada, the ways that food connects them – and the ways it doesn’t. Throughout the game, Venba tries to use her mother’s recipes to get through to her son, Kavin. But Kavin wants to fit in. He wants to speak Englis...
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Signalled Space - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #178. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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Early in 2022, I visited the Rollright Stones in south England. It had been raining, and in front of the largest stone footfall and water had combined into a puddle that said people have been here. Thousands of people across thousands of years have stood in front of th...
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The Play Space - Unwinnable

This column is a reprint from Unwinnable Monthly #177. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.

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After writing my feature this week, I didn’t want to go back to writing in space in games right away. Let this column serve as a coda to that piece instead: about what it is to live in space and where games fit into the space of a life.

I played a game as soon as I wo...