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How To: Download and install new texture packs for your Minecraft game

Want to personalize your Minecraft game? This tutorial shows you how you can find custom skins and texture packs on Minecraft fan sites, and then import them to your game. This method will only work for machines running either Windows Vista or 7.

How To: Find and collect diamonds safely in Minecraft

For this tutorial, you will need over one hundred torches, a few weapons of your choice, iron and diamond picks, iron shovels, a bucket of water (to extinguish lava or yourself), and some wood and food. If you have all these, then you're ready to go diamond mining!

How To: Build a house to survive your first night in Minecraft

Your first night in Minecraft is the most perilous one, and you don't have to build just a simple shelter. There's enough time to build a complete house out of twenty-three logs, twenty-three blocks of sand, four blocks of coal and eighty-one blocks of stone.

How To: Set up five different traps in Minecraft to kill zombies

From the simplicity of the landmine to complicated Rube Goldberg traps, this video shows you five different traps you can build in Minecraft to destroy zombies. Why bother fighting them when you can just lure them into death traps instead?

How To: Create portals and mine obsidian in the game Minecraft

To start with, this tutorial shows you how to make a compass in Minecraft that will always point towards your spawn location. It also demonstrates how you can safely mine for obsidian from lava pits, and how to build portals into the Nether.

How To: Set up an obsidian farm in the game Minecraft

Want to find a way to get nearly unlimited obsidian? This tutorial shows you how to build your own underground obsidian farm in the popular new game Minecraft. Avoid the dangers of lava while harvesting all the obsidian you can find!

How To: Build a factory for unlimited cobblestones in Minecraft

You can have an infinitely regenerating cobblestone factory in MineCraft! You will need two buckets of lava, four buckets of water and eighty four blocks of dirt to make this factory that will then start producing unlimited cobblestones for you.

How To: Create and edit custom textures and skins for Minecraft

You've seen the custom skins and textures on Minecraft fansites, but how can you make your own? You'll need Minecraft, WinRAR and an art program like Photoshop or Paint.net (as long as it supports transparency) to create your own custom skins and textures.

How To: Get absurd amounts of TNT for your Minecraft game

Want to stock up on your TNT and its components? Of course you do! This tutorial shows you how to build an monster spawner and item collection machine so you can accumulate huge amounts of TNT in Minecraft. You'll need diamond picks to start!

How To: Locate where your Minecraft save files are kept on your computer

If you want to port mods or other items into your games, you need to know first where Minecraft stores the save files. It's in a hidden folder, and here's how you can uncover it in either Windows XP or Vista.

How To: Find caves and lava in Minecraft by exploiting a glitch

This is a clever little exploit that you can use in Minecraft that shows you how to use correctly positioned gravel to take advantage of a glitch in the programming. Use this to be able to tell where there are caves and lava!

How To: Use INVedit to edit your Minecraft inventory on a Mac

Technically, INVedit is a program used to edit your inventory when playing MineCraft, and it only works on Windows machines. However, this tutorial shows you a good workaround for you to be able to install and run INVedit on your Mac.

How To: Change your Minecraft textures when using a Mac

All you need to pull this off is to have Minecraft already downloaded, and the texture you want. Then, this video shows you how you can add these textures to your Minecraft game when you're playing the agme using a Mac.

How To: Use Cheat Engine to get more health and mana in DragonFable

This tutorial shows you how to use the most current version of Cheat Engine to hack into the online game DragonFable and give yourself more health and mana. Make sure that you open the game in Firefox or Internet Explorer.

How To: Get the Mysterious Magnum weapon in Fallout: New Vegas

Where did it come from? No one knows! This video shows you where to find the Mysterious Magnum, which makes the Mysterious Stranger sound every time to take it out of the holster. You will need to start the Talent Pool quest to get this weapon.

How To: Make lots and lots of money in the online game RuneScape

Looking for easy ways to make money in the online game RuneScape? This quick and dirty guide gives you a few good ideas on how you can easy and quickly make several thousand per hour using these strategies and tips.

How To: Add texture packs and skins for your character in MineCraft

Why stay with only what you've been given by the basic game? Make your MineCraft game more exciting by giving your character a different skin, and downloading new texture packs for your game. This is an incredibly easy mod for your game.

How To: Complete the Talent Pool quest in Fallout: New Vegas

This video starts off by showing you how to complete this quest. Start in one of the casinos, and distribute four cards to different NPCs you can find on the Strip. The benefit of thsi quest is that it gets you more money!

How To: Make a water elevator in MineCraft

Looking for more cool ideas for your MineCraft game? This tutorial shows you how to build a water elevator that you can launch your boat from. This is a fun and easy tutorial that works whether you're in your boat or not.

How To: Set up a multiplayer Windows server for MineCraft

Want to set up your own multiplayer server so you can play MineCraft with your friends? From the initial download to your first logon, this tutorial shows you how you can build and set up your own server for multiplayer Minecraft!

How To: Level up your World of Warcraft Cataclysm character in Stonetalon

Cataclysm is finally almost here, after what seems like aeons of waiting, and that means WoW is about to take over your life once again. It means power levelling is once again going to be your job, and fortunately this video contains an excellent guide for doing so in Stonetalon, ensuring your character is flush with experience and loot to facilitate enjoying all the beautiful expansion content Blizzard has given you.

How To: Use redstone to make doors, buildings, walls and other structures in MineCraft

Redstone is versatile and can be put to a myriad of uses when constructing things on your island in MineCraft. This tutorial shows you a couple basic ways to start building with redstone, such as wired doors and solid walls.

How To: Make flashing strobe 'rave lights' in MineCraft

You can throw your own rave right in MineCraft! No one has figured out how to make E yet, and you'll have to bring your own music. But when it comes to the flashing strobe lights, this is how you build them in MineCraft.

How To: Make a Cacti spawner and collector in MineCraft

This tutorial shows you how to build a small cactus farm in MineCraft, from which you can collect various items. Make sure you build this near a source of unlimited water, and that have you have enough sand to build the farm.

How To: Make perfect circles when building in MineCraft

This technique is a simple way to get easy, perfect circles when trying to build in MineCraft. You can make a good template or stencil just by using the circle tool available in MS Paint. Then transfer the pixel data from Paint to MineCraft!

How To: Change your scores in any game using Cheat Engine (11/23/2010)

You can use the free software program Cheat Engine to hack nearly any game, whether online or off, to alter your scores, inventory and experience points. Always make sure you are using the most current and up to date version of Cheat Engine!

How To: Get the Enclave Power Armor in Fallout: New Vegas on a PC

You will need to be playing Fallout: New Vegas on the PC, and make sure that you have enabled the console. This is not a mod, but you will need to enter a few console commands in order to get the enclave power armor.

How To: Find the YCS/186 Gauss rifle in Fallout: New Vegas

This gun is one of the unique weapons you can find in the game Fallout: New Vegas, and is a more than respectable rifle. Follow along with this walkthrough, and you can discover where this rifle is hidden within the desert.

How To: Find and install mods for Fallout: New Vegas

These mods will only work for people who play the game on PC (including Steam). Go to the Fallout: New Vegas Nexus and browse their files. Download the ones you like, and then use the Mod Manager to incorporate them into your game.

How To: Kill or inactivate Mr. House at the end of Fallout: New Vegas

Mr. House is a character at the end of Fallout: New Vegas, about whom your character will have to make several choices. If you decide to kill or deactivate Mr. House, it will be challenging - but here is how you can.

How To: Get the same artillery as Liberty Prime in Fallout 3

Use the same bomb that Liberty Prime does in Fallout 3! This cheat only works for the PC, since you will need to open the dev console in order to hack the game and give yourself all the weapons and bombs.

How To: Fix the Oh My Papa Melissa bug in Fallout: New Vegas with the console

Some players might encounter a few bugs when playing the Oh My Papa Melissa mission in Fallout: New Vegas. If you are playing on a PC, you can open up the dev console and manually enter a few commands to fix this bug.

How To: Warp to the secret item testing area in Fallout 3

This will only work for PC versions of the game. If you have enabled your dev console, you can warp to a secret room, called the testing room, which gives you access to every item and weapon findable in the game.

How To: Find the secret room with all the items in Fallout 3

This only works for the PC version of the game, since you will need to enable the dev console to be able to get it. Once you do, you can use a console command to get access to a room that gives you all the items in the game.

How To: Get the Ranger Combat Armor in Fallout: New Vegas

The Ranger Combat Armor is the suit featured on the cover of Fallout: New Vegas, and this easy tutorial shows you how to get this armor for yourself without having to use any glitches or console commands to obtain it.

How To: Use the console commands when playing Fallout 3

By enabling the dev console in Fallout 3, you can give yourself exactly the same kind of superuser game access that the developers have when they are working on the game. Here's an extensive list of console commands you can use to get all sorts of great stuff.