Guides For Gamers

Some people want to make their own video games. Maybe they think they can do better than the big companies can. Maybe they believe that originality is dead in the video game industry and they want to try and change that. Maybe they just have this idea that’s itching to be made and they’re convinced they can do it. There are probably as many reasons for developing one’s own video game as there are

Those track cars are for sissies. They have wide, gently sloping raceways that let them chase each other around track. The concrete walls are lined with rubber barriers, softening the impact of a 140-mph crash. Heck, even the asphalt is dusted and ground weekly, to ensure the racers get only the smoothest possible road. Then you have rally cars. Unpaved and uneven terrain. 100-foot drops. Muddy tracks that punish t

Every now and then, a game comes along that changes the landscape. Among gods eye view games, among the trendsetters were the first Sim City and later Sim City 3000, the Civilizations series, and The Sims, yet another fantastic creation by Will Wright. And then there’s Tropico. When the game first debuted back in the early part of the 2000s, I stayed up late countless nights trying to transform a sleepy backw

There’s nothing quite like the adrenaline of driving Pagani’s latest creation, the Huayra. From the banshee scream of its massive engine to the blackout-inducing acceleration rate, it takes a very special kind of driver to tame this beast. Thank God we’re doing the driving virtually, lest we end up with a $500,000 wreck on our hands. Need For Speed’s latest title, Shift 2: Unleashed, allows

Okay, so you’re the hotshot. The king of the hill. You’ve scored the highest killstreaks in CoD. You’ve finished the campaign for GTA… including the side missions. And you even managed win it big in the Sims 3, buying the giant mansion on the hill and decking out the front yard with three import cars and a limo. That may be fine for your sim, but what about you? It’s an old joke that t

Ah, killstreaks. No Call of Duty experience is complete without acquiring some nifty killstreak ability and raining death down upon the enemy. With the latest Black Ops game (latest only until COD 3 comes out around September to November), Treyarch stayed with the formula of keeping the best bits from the previous game while adding in a few new ones to keep things interesting as far as multiplayer and online games

If you have ever attempted to play a video game that you could not seem to master you probably tried to look for advice on how to beat that game. This means that you went online, guide a quick google search, and read articles written by random people all over the globe. This also means that you could not any consistent answers and you had no way of knowing if the person’s advice was actually good or not unti