EA has just announced a new free base game update for The Sims 4 that massively overhauls the way infants and toddlers work in-game and introduces a new type of clothing item: the Base Layer, which can be layered under other types of clothing items like tops and pants. The update also includes a multitude of new bug fixes and quality-of-life updates based on player feedback from the EA Forums and other social channels--including a fix for the issue causing photographs of Sims to display an all-black image rather than the actual photograph.

"Over the next few months, the team’s focus is on making that content even better by delivering improvements to the gameplay that matters most to Simmers," EA said in a press release announcing the update. "The goal is to make the game players already know and love feel smoother, more intuitive, and more consistent, based directly on feedback shared across EA Forums, The Sims Discord, and other community channels."

The update goes live next Tuesday, May 12, and will introduce the aforementioned Base Layer clothing items, which include camisoles, bras, binders, and other underclothes. There are a total of 14 base layer items (eight for adults, four for children, and two for toddlers) with over 380 color swatches and variants.

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Alan Wake and Control developer Remedy has vowed to keep FBC: Firebreak online, despite the company planning to release no further updates to the game.

As part of Remedy's latest earnings briefing, the company said, "FBC: Firebreak will remain live and playable." The studio said the infrastructure costs related to this will not be "significant."

On Steam, FBC has seven people in the game right now. The game is also available on console through Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus, in addition to being available to buy outright. The game may not have been the success that Remedy hoped for, but fans who are playing it will be able to keep doing so, and that's good news for them.

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May 4 may have come and gone, but Star Wars celebrations are just getting started. With The Mandalorian & Grogu coming out in theaters May 22, fans have plenty to look forward to--and there's no shortage of limited edition collections and sales to check out while you wait. BaubleBar's 20% off Big Summer Kickoff sale is one of them, and it includes the full Star Wars line, featuring earrings, necklaces, rings, bracelets, pins, bag and phone charms, and storage pouches. If you've been meaning to pick up some of these items for your collection, it's a great time to buy.

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BaubleBar's Star Wars necklaces have a charm bracelet feel, which is a fun touch as you can customize the charm order to your liking. You can also strip charms off and wear any of them as single pendant necklaces. Whether you favor heroes or villains, this collection has something for every fan's tastes.

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• Darth Vader Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)
• Grogu Charm Necklace -- $30.40 ($38)
• Grogu Cluster Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Heroes Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Villains Charm Necklace -- $38.40 ($48)
• Yoda Charm Necklace -- $46.40 ($58)

Star Wars Bracelets

BaubleBar has some great discounts running right now, but the best deal by far is on its Repeating Bracelets and specific styles of the Pisa Charm Bracelet. Both are on sale for just $10 in every style. That includes Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Yoda, Grogu, and C-3PO. The 20% off deal doesn't apply for these items, but they're already so reasonably priced you may as well build yourself a stack. Find all the other Star Wars bracelets on sale listed below.

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It's been kind of a long time since we had a proper new Batman action game–more than a decade, in fact, since 2015's Arkham Knight was the most recent one. But that's going to change on May 22, when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight hits digital storefronts. I had the chance recently to get about two hours of hands-on time with the newest Lego Batman epic, and it feels as much like a new Arkham game as it does a new Lego Batman game.

It didn't take long for the parallels to become obvious. My session began with a battle against Carmine Falcone's thugs at the Iceberg Lounge, and I felt immediately at home with the familiar control scheme--square to attack, triangle to counter, X to evade or jump over an enemy's head. As you play, you'll unlock gadgets and additional moves that will make each brawl more dynamic and fun, though the battles certainly aren't as difficult as they were in the Arkham games--Lego games are not generally intended to be challenging in that way, after all.

The feeling of familiarity didn't fade once I got out into the open world of Gotham City, gliding around and using Batman's grappler to zip all over the place with ease, or drifting around corners in a Lego version of Robert Pattinson's Batmobile. But it's not the aesthetic similarities between Rocksteady's games and this new Lego Batman that matter, since it's not as though there are a lot of different ways for Gotham City to look. What really matters is that Legacy of the Dark Knight sports the same sort of smooth gameplay that the Arkham games had. If you played any of the Arkham games, Legacy of the Dark Knight will fit you like a glove.

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We've had a lot of Batman stories over the past century or so, whether it be in comic books, theatrical serials, TV shows, movies, video games, or any other method people use to tell stories. It doesn't matter the form--Batman has been all over it. So when Jonathan Smith, head of production at TT Games, said that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight will feature the "definitive Batman story," my ears definitely perked up a little bit.

Smith made that comment at the start of a press event in Los Angeles for the newest Lego Batman game, where those of us in attendance had the chance to play Legacy of the Dark Knight for about two hours. We sampled several main story missions, including one that came straight from the big screen--Robin's origin story from Batman & Robin--and also had some time to explore the open world of Gotham City. It seems as though this game will be enormous, because it's drawing on so many different things from the sprawling source material.

But this kind of thing isn't new for the folks at TT Games, which has been making Lego games for two decades, going all the way back to the original Lego Star Wars in 2005. Their most recent big game, for example, was Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which included nine movies' worth of plot. Even so, Batman has way more material than that to wade through, since the character's nine feature-length theatrical movies are just the tip of the iceberg--Batman's also got years of comics and piles of other notable adaptations to draw from.

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The next playtest for the upcoming Horizon multiplayer game Horizon Hunters Gathering is coming up pretty soon, and the test is technically open to anyone, though you have to get lucky to actually get in.

The second closed playtest runs May 22-25, and just like the first test in February, this will be playable on PS5 and PC via Steam. You can sign up for the test on the PlayStation Beta Program website and then cross your fingers and hope you get chosen.

The second test features more content than the first one, including two new characters--Ensa and Shadow. Characters from the first test--Rem, Sun, and Axle--are in the second test as well. What's more, players can look forward to a "playable episode" in the second test. This is the narrative part of the multiplayer game where players will learn new story details as they fight the machines.

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Journey through a handcrafted, non-linear story of reunion, revenge, and redemption. For the first time in 10 years, the living members of the legendary band, Dead as Disco, are reuniting -- for a concert honoring their dead drummer, Charlie Disco. You are Charlie Disco, and for one night only, you can have your revenge. Confront your ex-bandmates, now the larger-than-life Idols, and uncover the secrets of the past to find out the truth of who really killed Disco.