It used to be that when you were upgrading a gun in a game, the most you could do would be to take it from a level 1 to a level 2, and all the stats would go up accordingly. Sometimes, you might be able to determine just what stats get upgraded, but in the end you’d end up with the same gun as...

As great as a new console in November sounds, the fact is there are plenty of good games coming up before then. That leads to a dilemma: “do I buy a version of a game now for the Xbox 360, or do I wait until my Xbox One comes out?” Luckily, Microsoft, as well as other retailers, are letting you...

In many multiplayer FPS games, one of the most fun things you can do is to hop into a helicopter or jet engine and start flying around. The problem is, unless you happen to be unnaturally good, you’re going to suck and your team will hate you. You’re only option to train would be to make a new...

Last month some rumors were going around that the Xbox One’s release date was going to be a week earlier than the PS4’s. Indeed, it made sense: get an extra week or 2 to sell the console before the competition, and you’ll be likely to pick up a few folks who are planning on getting a new...

Fact is, sometimes people can suck, especially when you get stuck playing against them online. They might be trash talkers, spamming the chat room with their assertions about how they’re going to have their way with your mother, or they might just be backstabbers, being a hindrance (on purpose) to the...

If you plan on filling up the Xbox One’s 500 GB hard drive at launch, well I might have some bad news for you. It turns out one of the Xbox One’s features, the ability to use an external hard drive for downloads and installations, won’t be available for use at launch. Microsoft’s...

Star Citizen is a game being develop unlike any way we’ve ever seen before. Instead of going through investors and publishers to get the money to be developed, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has instead turned to the people to get funding. By doing this crowdsourcing route instead of using the usual...

You have to admit, despite the security concerns of putting camera in your living room that’s always watching, always waiting to hear a command from you, the Kinect is an impressive piece of hardware. After all, it’s able to differentiate between different people, and can remember who is who to...