Hot PC Games How-Tos
How To: Use the console commands for Call of Duty: Black Ops
If you're having some problems playing Call of Duty: Black Ops because your computer can't quite handle everything, you can use the console commands to scale everything back a bit. This is a great stopgap to use until the patch comes out.
How To: Rob the Silver Rush casino in Fallout: New Vegas
Want to get a pantload of energy and silver in about half a minute, with no damage to your karma or reputation meters? You can raid the Silver Rush casino by sneaking around and stealing the various caches from the store.
How To: Install the mod manager for Fallout: New Vegas
Want to dress up your Fallout: New Vegas game with mods, customizations and other user created content? You'll need the mod manager first! This tutorial shows you how to find and install the New Vegas Mod Manager (NVMM), found on the Nexus website.
How To: Acquire the "This Machine" unique weapon in Fallout New Vegas
"This Machine" is a powerful rifle designed to look like an M1 Garand! There are two options to acquiring this fantastic rifle, one way is against the NCR and one way is for the NCR, which path do you choose? Check out this video for more details on location and how to get the rifle!
How To: Acquire the Cram Opener rare weapon in Fallout New Vegas
In Fallout New Vegas, Obsidian decided to spread and equal amount of unique weapons all across the Mojave wasteland! Ranging from deadly axes, rifles, pistols, submachine guns and more! In this video you'll learn the three ways of acquiring the Cram Opener weapon, a unique version of the Bladed Gauntlet, from Little Buster!
How To: Glitch your companion to regain health in Fallout: New Vegas
Gltiches and bugs are riddles in the release of Fallout New Vegas, and as Obsidian rushes to put out patches for these problems, that leaves us free to abuse them! If you're in combat and are noticing that your companions are taking quite the beating, you can actually glitch their companion wheel to heal them without even worrying about using up your stimpaks! Check out this video for details on the gltich!
How To: Find all the secret items in the game Trine
This video shows you how you can earn the Treasure Hunter Achievement for the game Trine by finding all the secret locations for the treasures. There are about two per level, and this video shows you how to get even the trickiest ones.
How To: Beat the Neptune's Net mission on Medal of Honor
Neptune's Net is one of the first missions on Day 2 of Medal of Honor. This tutorial has Neptune's Net on Hard Difficulty, and shows you the best way for you to get through the map, find the achievements and beat the level!
How To: Beat the Friends From Afar level of Medal of Honor on Hard Difficulty
Getting stuck at some places in the Medal of Honor mission, Friends From Afar? This tutorial walks you through the whole map and shows you what to avoid and strategies to use in order to beat the entire mission on Hard Difficulty.
How To: Get to the end of the Gunfighters mission Medal of Honor
Find out how to beat the Gunfighters mission when you play Medal of Honor! You get your own gun ship for this mission, how cool is that? This tutorial shows you how to make it through the mission on Hard Difficulty.
How To: Be a dangerously good sniper on Call of Duty: Black Ops
Want to maximize the potential for your sniper when you're playing Call of Duty: Black Ops? This video shows you how to execute a proper snipe - the trick is not to use Quick Scoping when you're on sniping missions.
How To: Create a basement for your house in Sims 3
Want to create some extra space for your sims to live happily in? You can very easily create a basement when you're designing your houses in Sims 3. This tutorial takes you step by step and shows you how to construct a stable basement.
How To: Find the hidden Brotherhood of Steel bunker in Fallout: New Vegas
The blistering suns of the Mojave Wasteland beat down on your brow, wouldn't you love it to be in a big hulking suit of Power Armor instead? It's off to find the Brotherhood of Steel then! Joining their ranks is the only way to learn how to wear it! In this video you'll get the location of Hidden Valley and where
How To: Make Obsidian and a Gateway to get into Hell in Minecraft
The Halloween update from Notch added many amazing features to the game including Biomes, and more! One of the more prominent, game changing additions were Gateways that lead you straight into Hell. Every step you take in Hell is equal to 16 steps in the outside world. The way you make it is through creating a gateway of Obsidian and igniting the center of it. In this video you will get a tutorial on how to make the Obsidian for the Gateway as well as how to create the Gateway and teleport in...
How To: Putt in World Golf Tour
In this video we learn how to putt in World Golf Tour. When putting, you need to determine where and how hard to hit your putt by reading the green. Click reverse to see the putt from behind the hole. The severity of the break is shown by the dots on the grid and how fast they are moving. Next, read the slope of the grid by looking at the colors on the green. The pointer will also tell you how much uphill or downhill there is on the putt. Then, adjust your pointer to where you want to hit it ...
How To: Accomplish the quest in the Dragon Age: Origins DLC Soldiers Peak
Curious about what to expect when you run through the Soldier's Peak DLC for Dragon Age: Origins? Restore both honor and good name to the family of a good friend of Duncan's! This series walks you through the whole quest, including all the extras.
How To: Get access to the mages' cache in Ostagar in Dragon Age: Origins
Is that locked chest next to the Tranquil mage in Ostagar driving you crazy? There's a way to unlock it! The man with the key is currently dangling in a cage elsewhere in camp. Convince the guard to share his dinner with the prisoner, and he'll give you the key. Sneak back after nightfall, and it's all yours!
How To: Get infinite money in Dragon Age: Awakening
Get unlimited money in Dragon Age: Awakening, without cheating! You can easily exploit this loophole with any merchant in the game. Just sell certain pieces of equipment back and forth until you have maxed out on how many sovereigns you have!
How To: Unlock the Blood Mage specialization in Dragon Age: Origins
You can get the Blood Mage specialization in Dragon Age: Origins from the demon who has possessed Connor. To get it, you need to be a mage, and volunteer to be the one to go into the Fade to confront the demon. Then negotiate with her, and she'll teach you how to be a Blood Mage.
How To: Solve the bridge puzzle at Andraste's Temple in Dragon Age: Origins
Apparently, only people who are good at solving puzzles are worthy to find the sacred ashes of Andraste... This is one of the few puzzles in the game, but it's very difficult to solve. Here's how you have each of your party members stand on the stones so you can get across the bridge.
How To: Get infinite money and XP in Dragon Age: Awakening
This is a small exploit of a glitch that can give you infinite xp and money when you play Dragon Age: Awakening. After you complete a certain mission, hold off on accepting the follow up mission. Just talk to the commander again and again, getting money and XP each time you do it.
How To: Take advantage of a glitch in Dragon Age: Origins to reassign your stats
Wish you could respec your character in Dragon Age: Origins? Actually, you can! There's a glitch you can use when you're leveling up your character that can let you respend already spent points by switching back and forth between the screens. See how!
How To: Get a pet mabari hound in Dragon Age: Origins
If you don't start with the Human Noble origin story, you'll need a different way to earn your friend for life. Find the white flower in the Korcari wilds, and then the hound will rejoin you later (with a +100 approval rating that never goes down!)
Get Sten's sword in Dragon Age: Origins
Morrigan's quest is definitely much easier. This tutorial shows you how to get Sten to tell you about his family's sword. Then you have to go to Lake Calenhad, and pick up the trail that leads all the way to Orzammar.
How To: Get the Imperium Crossbow in Dragon Age: Origins
The best crossbow in the game is without a doubt the Imperial Crossow, which you can find early in the game, in Lothering (before it gets overrun by darkspawn!) Find the merchant who is overcharging (across from the Chantry) and then pickpocket him after you run off the sisters.
How To: Get the helmet Duty in Dragon Age: Origins
Get one of the best (and coolest looking) helmets available in Dragon Age: Origins. You can find it in either Caridin's Cross or Ortan Thaig in the Deep Roads... just have your mabari hound find it for you! This is likelier to work if you have just given him a bone as a gift.
How To: Make Sten like you in Dragon Age: Origins
Once you get Sten's approval level to at least 25 (he likes paintings), he'll tell you more about why he was in the cage where you found him. He'll tell you about losing his family's sword. Now go talk to the scavenger at Lake Calenhad, and you can get it from him.
How To: Harden Alistair's personality in Dragon Age: Origins
A hardened Alistair makes it easier for you to achieve your goals - whether it's making him king, having him marry Anora or marrying him yourself. He also disapproves less of certain actions. Here's the right dialogue options to pick when you're meeting Goldanna.
How To: Solve the Gauntlet bridge puzzle in Dragon Age: Origins
Halfway through your search for the Sacred Ashes, you'll come across a chasm that can only be bridged by standing on certain stones in a certain pattern. Here's how you can finally make the bridge solid and solve the puzzle.
How To: Find Yusaris the Dragonslayer sword in Dragon Age: Origns
To get ahold of Yusaris (a weapon that's desigined to kill dragons), you'll have to complete the Watchguard of the Reaching quest in the Circle Tower. First find all the notes (and this video shows you where they are), and then follow the notes to summon a demon. Kill it, and collect Yusaris!
How To: Turn one of your sims into a zombie in Sims 3
Here's how to zombify your sims in Sims 3 without cheating! Kill off one of your sims, and then give another one a job working with the paranormal. Once they've been promoted high enough, you can find the special resurrection phone... a direct line to the Grim Reaper. Buy back your dead sim, and he'll return as a zombie!
How To: Solve the stone prisoner sliding puzzle in in Dragon Age: Origins
You will need to have received the DLC "The Stone Prisoner" to access this content. If you have it, you will run across a sliding stone puzzle. This video demonstrates one way for you to solve it and free the demon kitty.
How To: Become Alistair's mistress in Dragon Age: Origins
If you're in a romance with Alistair, but aren't a human noble, it can be nearly impossible to stay in a relationship with him if you decide to make him king. But, you can at least persuade him to keep you on as a mistress!
Get to level 20 in Dragon Age: Origins before you even become a Grey Warden
You can achieve level 20 in Dragon Age: Origins before completing the Joining ritual (or even leaving Ostagar!) When Duncan sends you into the wilds for darkspawn blood and treaties, only come back with the blood. Then talk to Duncan repeatedly for extra xp (set your difficulty level to Nightmare for even more xp!)
How To: Use the Cheat Engine program to cheat at games
Cheat Engine is a program you can use to cheat at many different games, especially online, browser based or Facebook games. This tutorial shows you how to use Cheat Engine to cheat at the onilne game Mother Lode, but you can use it for many games.
How To: Free the demon kitty in Dragon Age: Origins
You can encounter a demon trapped in the body of a cat when you play the DLC for Dragon Age: Origins, The Stone Prisoner. To free the demon, you will encounter a sliding stone puzzle. Here's how you can solve it!
How To: Buy experience points with gold in Dragon Age: Origins
Here's a fun glitch you can take advantage of in Dragon Age: Origins to get some extra experience for your whole party. Buy some elfroot from the merchant in the Brecilian Forest, put it in your box at the camp, and then return to the Brecilian Forest!
How To: Get unlimited gold in Dragon Age Origins from Lloyd the Bartender
You can get as much money as you want from Lloyd the Bartender in Redcliffe when you play Dragon Age: Origins. After you convince Lloyd to defend the village from the impending invasion of undead, you can use this glitch to get unlimited gold!
How To: Power level your character in Dragon Age: Origins
This guide shows you how to powerlevel your character early on in Dragon Age: Origins. When Duncan sends you out to find vials of darkspawn blood and the old Grey Warden treaties, bring back the blood but not the treaties. Rinse and repeat and continue accruing xp!
How To: Enable the console to get unlimited cash and XP in Dragon Age: Origins
By enabling the console, you can give yourself as much gold and XP as you want. You can even make yourself unkillable, no matter how many darkspawn, rage demons or reavers you face down! This video demonstrates how you can enable the console and a few useful commands.