It's a controversial headline, I know, but bear with me and I'll explain in due course. Disclaimer: I was once a child, and I played lots of video games. I didn't look anything like this child.
Text adventure games, such as the well-known Zork series, were some of the first computer games ever made, second only to the likes of Spacewar! and the better-known Pong. So let's travel back in time for a moment, to a time that never was.
I can definitely say that my MacBook is one of my best friends, but I was still very disappointed when I realized that the only game my laptop came with was chess. For starters, I'm not very good at chess. I haven't even beat the computer once, which really grinds my gears. But, it has come to my attention that chess isn't the only pre-installed game on my Mac—there seems to be some hidden gems that I simply wasn't cool enough to know about. For some of you, this may be old news, but for me, ...
The biggest problem with having a lot of gaming systems lying around the house is the clutter. Each device has several cables and adapters that need to be plugged in somewhere and it could leave your gaming area look something like this... Not a pretty sight, huh?
Featuring intensely competitive multiplayer action, Offensive Combat enables players to harness their skills and use their creativity and ingenuity to win the ultimate mash-up of first-person shooters. The browser version and the mobile/tablet versions of the game are interconnected, and work together unlike any game before.
Google Play has no shortage of Nintendo emulators: SuperGNES (Super Nintendo)
No matter how advanced technology gets, there will always be room for classic video games in the hearts of nerds everywhere. Mini arcades became very popular, as they allowed users to take arcade games on the go. As Game Boys and other mobile gaming devices appeared, the mini arcade slowly disappeared. Well, believe it or not you can combine the best of both worlds! Metku user Japala wanted to make his old Game Boy Advance SP "look cool again," so he turned it into a mini arcade cabinet.
I can imagine you sitting there thinking to yourself, "I've played a lot of games! I bet he won't have any that I don't know about!" Well, that's entirely possible. I'm only drawing from my own personal experience here, so you may, in fact, know of all these games.
Over the past few years, indie game developers have gathered together to release their products in the widely popular Humble Indie Bundle, a collection that gamers can purchase for whatever price they want. It's a win-win for both. Developers get more exposure for their games, and customers get tons of games for whatever they could afford. Heck, charities even get a little piece of the pie.
While the PlayStation and Xbox models may rule the current world of gaming, there are still those who love to keep it old school. The grittiness, toughness and nostalgia that is laced throughout old gaming consoles appeals to many people. Every time I play Donkey Kong 64 (with the expansion pack of course!), I revert back to the days of Sunday morning cartoons and only worrying about homework.
You've had your Xbox 360 for a few years now and your game collection is pretty extensive. Maybe it's not that extensive, but it's still substantial. Now imagine that you live in Europe and you're moving to the United States. I don't know why—maybe your dad got a job offer. Don't ask me, ask your parents. They're the ones that are making you move. Anyways, as most Xbox users know, games are coded by region. Games that work in Europe might not work in the United States. Does this mean you shou...
Warhammer 40,000 is one of the most popular and most derided games on the planet. Very few games are so fun, so harmless, and so beloved, and yet people who play are often labeled nerds and it has never caught in in mainstream America (different story in Europe and Australia, where it's HUGE). If you've been considering playing, you've come to the perfect place. Warhammer 40k is a complex game, but this video series will teach you everything you need to know to start playing. It uses the basi...
After 12 years Starcraft 2 is finally here to blow your mind. If you're looking for help with the game, you've come to the right place. We have tons of videos about how to do just about everything in the game. We have strategies for winning campaign and multiplayer games. We have guides to using the immensely powerful level editor. We'll even teach you how to build a Terran Barracks out of Legos. This video for beginners will teach you everything you need to know to get started playing the ga...
After 12 years Starcraft 2 is finally here to blow your mind. If you're looking for help with the game, you've come to the right place. We have tons of videos about how to do just about everything in the game. We have strategies for winning campaign and multiplayer games. We have guides to using the immensely powerful level editor. We'll even teach you how to build a Terran Barracks out of Legos. This video will show you how to use some basic build orders for Protoss and Zerg to improve you o...
The cold time of Christmas is upon us, and Icy Town is a winter-ific game you can play… and hack. With Cheat Engine and a little patience, you can hack and unlock floors in the game easily.
It's Christmastime, so what better of a game to play than the winterized Icy Tower? And what better game to hack with Cheat Engine?
This week: a rigged game of skill & a simple sucker bet! Check out this video if you want to learn how to beat anyone in a simple game that can be played anywhere with coins and a napkin. Some might call it magic, others call it skill.
Find out how everything in a chemistry lab works, from pipettes to burners to recrystallization to storage. You'll get precise instructions on how to work and perform certain scientific duties in the chem lab, whether it's chemical or just ordinary high school science.
Learn how to animate sprites (like characters from video games) that you can download using Adobe Flash
Want to get an absurdly high score on the Mindjolt game, Cube Crash? Of course you do, and that's precisely what this video tutorial is going to show you. You will first need the free game hacking program Cheat Engine, as well as a Cheat Engine compatible browser (such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox - this won't work if you're using Google Chrome). If you have both programs, open up Cube Crash in your browser, then open up Cheat Engine and just follow the outlined instructions to hac...
If you're looking to expand the storage capacity of your Xbox 360, you should look no further than a USB memory stick. And, this video will show you how to do it. You can store games, profiles, basically anything that's stored on your Xbox 360 game system. Microsoft recently added a patch to the game system to make this process really simple and easy to do. So, get a memory stick and start bulking up today! Oh, all that video game glory!
Yu-Gi-Oh! represented the third wave of collectible card gaming, taking the mantel from Pokemon and Magic and bringing the style of game to a new generation of kids. This video will teach you how to build three awesome decks for one of the video game versions of the game, Yu-Gi-Oh-Gx! Tag Force 2! They are called Cyber End, God, and Blue Eyes respectively.
CityVille is the newest Facebook game from Zynga, the same people who make FarmVille and FrontierVille. Starting from scratch, this tutorial shows you how to start and build your own city. Make sure you have the most efficient and profitable city of all your friends!
Everyone is excited for the newest addition to the TRON franchise, Evolution! This tutorial shows you everything that you need to know in order to get through the first level, Reboot, when playing this game. Best of all? You get your own light cycle!
Just buying the main disc-based games for the Nintendo Wii is actually limiting yourself quite a bit! There's a ton of classic arcade titles, Nintendo games, and old Sega games for you to choose from among many other titles all in the Wii Shop Channel! But to play them, you will need to purchase them with Wii Points which is your currency transferred into points. If you're scratching your head as to how to do this, you will get a chance to find out in this video.
Malzahar can certainly be a viable champion to play on the Fields of Justice. This video shows you how to build up Malzahar by using the correct abilities, items and summoner spells to increase his strength in battle.
Vladimir the Crimson Reaper is the closest thing to a vampire you can bring onto the Fields of Justice. His abilities are focused on taking health from his enemies to build himself up, and this tutorial shows you the best build with spells, runes, abilities and items to take advantage of his unique talents.
Vortex is a puzzle-platformer in the Braid / Limbo vein, except with the somewhat selfish mission of getting yourself into a sauna. This video will show you how to beat all of the game's many levels, ensuring maximum sauna enjoyment.
If you can get past it's somewhat unappetizing name, the you'll find a fun free puzzler in Blockage. This video will show you how to beat levels 1-20 of the game.
Satanorium is a Flash old-school point-and-click horror adventure game (say that three times fast) hosted on PlayHub. This video will walk you through the entire thing, which looks pretty darn cool for a free game.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a Call of Duty 4 working server. First, go into your game and go to "start new server". Next, name it whatever you want and put internet into the dedicated section. After this, save the information and a console will pop up. Don't close this, minimize it. Next, open up your game and go to "join game" and search for your server. When you find it, click on the information and write down the IP address it has inside of it. Now, go to XFire and type in the I...
If you're a fan of the original Hydro Thunder, that came out for the Playstation and Sega Dreamcast, you'll be happy to hear that it's back! Hydro Thunder Hurricane is a sequel/remake of the original game and is being sold as an Xbox Live Arcade game.
Mirror's Edge was an okay game, but the demo was one of the best ever made. It would have made a worthwhile budget game purchase by itself! If you, like many, got the demo but not the full game, this video will show you how to extend the life of said demo by teaching you how to escape the confines of the map using a glitch. A lot of the fun of this game is exploration, and now you can do more of it!
In this Games video tutorial you will learn how to play the Pente (Pentagon) marble game. It's a game of skill and strategy played on a 14" square hardwood game board. It can be comfortably played by 2 people or two teams. Teams do not have to be balanced (two against one, three against two, any combination). The board is divided into 3/4" squares. The unique feature of this board is the four holding trays for the playing gems. First decide who will start. The starting player places a gem at ...
In one of the most celebrated soccer tournaments, the World Cup is back! And with it comes an assortment of different merchandise, inlcuding its own video game; 2010 FIFA World Cup. This game puts you in the shoes of some of the world's most talented and electric soccer players out there. Teams like Argentina, Spain, U.S.A, and many others are at your disposal. So sit back and find out how to do all the new skills in the game. Enjoy!
In this tutorial, learn how to bypass Nintendo's copyright protection and burn Wii games to share with your friends. This video will show you exactly what you need to know to outsmart the system and copy your games to another disc.
In this how to video, you will learn how to play Borderlands LAN online using Tunngle. You will need Borderlands and Tunngle in order to do this. First, open Tunngle and then log in to Borderlands. Go to LAN game and select your character. From here, join a game. You are now ready to play. If your friend is not showing up, press E to refresh the list and make sure the port 11155 is being forwarded by the host. To get the in game mic to work, you must go to online game and make sure you log in...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to add custom music in the game, WWE Smack Down vs. Raw 2009. Users will need a blank recordable CD and cannot use MP3s or any other audio format. Begin by recording all the music files into the CD and the insert it into the Xbox360. In the Xbox360 dashboard, go to My Xbox and select Play CD. Click on Rip CD and name the information of the CD. Now select the song that you want and add in into a play-list. Now to select the song in the game, select use...
Backgammon is played on a board with 24 triangles called points, the board it's divided in 4 quadrants and it's separate, 2 for one player and 2 for another player. At the beginning of the game each player have 15 checkers that is placed on the quadrant the player owns, each player have the checkers with different colors. And each player uses two dices to start the game. The objective of the game is to bears all your checkers off before you hold it, you cannot do this until all tour checkers ...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to hack the Flash game "Defend Your Honor" using Cheat Engine. Users will need Cheat Engine version 5.5. Begin by starting the first level of the game. Open Cheat Engine, click on the computer icon and select the internet icon. In the game, start a battle and kill an enemy. Type in the money you receive in the Cheat Engine "Value" bar. Continue doing until there is one or two addresses in Cheat Engine. Then, check both boxes and change the value to nu...
