Be safe and stay cool!

like stay cool today and drink lots of liquids!

And stay indoors if it’s possible for you to - it’s absolutely baking outside.

A bleak winter’s day and wolves prowl around an isolated farm in this screen from Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves

Mario 64 - Cool, Cool Mountain

Is this video games' greatest icy mountain?

It’s certainly the only one where you might race a penguin through its innards.

Each day you chop wood and earn money to buy and place traps.

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This is winter at its most impenetrable - and euphoric.

In Animal Crossing, though, winter has that surprising brightness.

One day, you walk out of your house and snow has transformed the landscape.

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So what do you do?

Make snowmen, collect snowflakes, and revel in the chilly wonder of it all.

Failure means frozen death, and even success sees your people trudging through knee-deep wastes.

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This is something special.

You know it’s going to be cool when it has a name like that, right?

Again, excuse the pun.

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This place is central to the story, as you know.

It really amplifies the feeling of cold in an already frozen land.

Few games are as horribly suited to playing on a warm summer’s evening.

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The chill remains palpable.

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Animal Crossing snow - a winter scene with snow in the trees.

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Lords of Midnight

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