Hot PC Games How-Tos
How To: Walkthrough & beat Spore's Space Stage
Watch a 41 part series on Spore's Space Stage. How will you create the universe? With Spore you can nurture your creature through five stages of evolution: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Or if you prefer, spend as much time as you like making creatures, vehicles, buildings and spaceships with Spore’s unique Creator tools.
How To: Beat World of Goo free puzzle PC game
This is the PC video game tutorial walkthrough of the greatest game ever: World of Goo. World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
How To: Script a light switch in Second Life
Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University shows you how to create a light switch in Second Life with scripting. Part 1 demonstrates how to create a prim switch which turns on (brightens) a prim in Second Life. Part 2 goes through the Light Switch code line-by-line and adds a rotor to the light switch. The code is provided for free distribution on Google Code at
How To: Build a jet band in Second Life
Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University demonstrates how to build a jet band using Jeff Heaton's jet pack code. What is a jet band? Well, it's like a jet pack but smaller and allows you to go higher than 200 meters when flying in Second Life. Part one shows you how to create the code for the jet band. In part 2, the code is modified to remove the altitude reading below 70 meters.
How To: Use the Rotation Trick in Second Life
This is a tutorial on the Rotation Trick in Second Life. The Rotation Trick can be used to create large circular structures fast. A scaled down version of a 70 Meter learning center is built in Second Life to demonstrate the Rotation Trick procedure.
How To: Build large structures fast in Second Life
This is a basic tutorial which teaches how to get free stuff in Second Life and use it to build large structures fast. It is for beginner Second Life users and teaches linking, unlinking, and duplicating commands. If you are new to Second Life, watch and learn how to build big buildings fast with stuff that's already there.
How To: Create a flexible tail in Second Life
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a flexible tail in Second Life. It uses a simple cone primitive and blue plasma texture. Second Life is much fun to draw in as this tutorial will show you.
How To: Perform a butterfly flip in Gunz: The Duel
Take a look at this tutorial and learn how to perform a butterfly flip with your player in the PC game Gunz The Duel. First you jump with the space bar and dash by pressing the "W" twice. Then slash with the left click button on the mouse or the control button. Lastly, execute a block and you'll be able to perform this impressive looking trick on this 3rd person shooter game.
How To: Safely defeat the Midgar Zolom in Final Fantasy VII
In Final Fantasy VII, crossing the marsh without a chocobo is much easier than you think, even though the Midgar Zolom is a big challenge upon first doing so. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to do so. You do need at least 600 HP to be safe for each of your characters, though 1000 is recommended. It does do about 430 or so damage per action so you'll certainly need to have cure spells at the ready. Plenty of MP is also recommended along with a few phoenix downs in case th...
How To: Max the strength stat in Final Fantasy VII
So you beat the final boss in Final Fantasy VII and it seemed way too easy considering the amount of time you've invested into this epic game. There are two additional hidden bosses in the US version of Final Fantasy VII: Emerald and Ruby Weapon, both of which are substantially more powerful than the final boss. In order to even contend with the game's hidden bosses, your characters will need to be maxed out. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to max out your party's streng...
How To: Get the "beta" enemy skill in Final Fantasy VII
Toward the beginning of Final Fantasy VII well into the first disc, the "Beta" enemy skill is first introduced as a trump card by the Midgar Zolom boss which decimates the entire party. Take a look at this tutorial and learn how to acquire this powerful skill from the boss.
How To: Max the vitality stat in Final Fantasy VII
In Final Fantasy VII, it's possible to max out vitality without any store-related progress needed if your strength stat has already been maxed. Take a look at this video and learn how to max out vitality simply by targeting an enemy called "spiral".
How To: Get gil extremely fast in Final Fantasy VII
Saving the world an be costly and in Final Fantasy VII, a part of leveling up is to get the funds you need to buy weapons, potions, and materia in your quest to defeat the villain Sephiroth. In this now classic Final Fantasy game, selling mastered materia can be extremely lucrative, particularly All materia. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to get quick gil by defeating rare Magic Pots in a specific area of the game.
How To: Make 1000 gold a day in World of Warcraft
This how-to shows how to make gold in World of Warcraft. With this technique you can easily make 500-1000g a day in your spare time. This completely depends on the economy of your server, but it is amazing how you can make so much money.
How To: Make 200 Gold An Hour in World of Warcraft
This how-to video shows how to get 200 gold every hour in WOW. This is a glitch in the game, and could prove to be very useful. World of Warcraft is a PC game and uses online play.
How To: Stream audio and video in Second Life
This how-to video shows how to enable the ability to stream audio and video through Second Life. This is very self explanatory, but for those that don't know, this how-to video should help. Stream audio and video in Second Life.
How To: Set up voice chat in Second Life
This how-to video explains how to set up voice communications in Second Life. This can be helpful to anyone who is confused on how to enable voice chat for this game. Set up voice chat in Second Life.
How To: Drift in Need For Speed Pro Street
This how-to video shows how to drift in NFS Pro Street. The care used is called a Silvia, and it is a great car for beginners.
How To: Drift in Need For Speed Pro Street: Silvia Ryo
This is a tutorial on NFS Pro Street. This how-to video shows how to drift on the car Silvia Ryo.
How To: Increase World of Warcraft's (WoW) graphics
No one can deny that World of Warcraft is the biggest, most popular game to come out since, well, ever. Boasting 12 million players and still going strong since its premiere in 2004, a combination of incredible, intense gameplay, comraderie building with guilds, and awesome-looking environments has made this game super successful.
How To: Use an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive on the Asus EEE PC
This instructional video will show you how to use an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive on the Asus EEE PC. This tutorial will teach yo to play movies and CDs with the cheap Xbox 360 HD-DVD player.
How To: Mod Cars in Grand Theft Auto 3 Vice City (GTA3:VC)
Heres a video that teaches you how to mod cars in Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City for the PC.
How To: Cheating/hack 3D Pinball
Heres is a video that shows you how to cheat in 3D Pinball
How To: Import and use a new player for Unreal Engine 3.0
In this video Jason Welsh imports and plays a new character step by step in Unreal Engine 3.0. for Unreal Tournament (UT3).
How To: Crate dynamic lighitng in Unreal Engine 3.0
Learn how to create dynamic lighting, constraints on moveable lights, and dynamic shadows in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War.
How To: Create a sky box in Unreal Engine 3.0
This video covers creating terrain layers, Ground cover, foliage, factories, Speed Trees and sky using the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
How To: Export a Maya character into Unreal Engine 3.0
This tutorial shows you how to export a character out of Maya and into the generic browser to animate it in Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War.
How To: Use dynamics and event triggers in Unreal Engine 3
Learn how to put Kismet Strings together with dynamics, a trigger, and much more to create a very unique effect in the Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War.
How To: Attach a mesh to a player in Unreal Engine 3
See how to attach a mesh to a player in the Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War. This is great for banners / helmets / bunny slippers etc.
How To: Make it rain in your Gears of War map in Unreal Engine
Learn how to breakdown a game level for assets for you maps in Gears of War using the Unreal Engine 3. This example will show you how to create rain.
How To: Path your AI monsters in Unreal Engine 3
This tutorial shows you how to path Artificial Intelligence monsters in Unreal Engine 3 for Gears of War. This allows them to move around and get them to attack players.
How To: Spawn stuff in Unreal Engine 3.0
This Unreal Engine tutorial is a newbs guide to spawning stuff like Emergence Holes, Weapons, Actor Factories for Gears of War.
How To: Constrain rigid bodies in Unreal Engine 3.0
This video deals with Constraints on Rigid Bodys within the engine and how to set them up in the Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
How To: Create an outdoor terrain in Unreal Engine 3
Jason Welsh makes a terrain layer setup and show you how to add materials and edit the terrain ... to make an outside environment.. SAVE OFTEN!!!!! when working with terrains in Unreal Engine for Gears of War.
How To: Create environments & sky spheres in Unreal Engine 3
This Unreal Engine 3.0 Gears of War lesson deals with creating outside environments and sky spheres.
How To: Import a mesh and create a material in Unreal Engine 3
This time Jason Welsh imports a mesh into the Unreal Engine 3.0 for Gears of War and makes a special material for the object. The Material editor is huge in unreal editor so don't get lost!
How To: Import a Maya mesh into the Unreal engine 3.0
This Gears of War lesson will be taking a simple mesh from Maya and exporting it into the Unreal engine and applying a collision mesh to it so that it will move when you shoot it.
How To: Reach secret rooftops in CoD4 Ambush map
A video tutorial showing some secret rooftops in Call of Duty 4, on the Ambush map. Great sniping positions. Reach secret rooftops in CoD4 Ambush map.
How To: How to use FRAPS to record video games
This tutorial details how you can use a program known as FRAPS to record your video games. The second video in the sequence details questions not addressed in the first video.
How To: Output information to a log in Unreal Script for UT3
This video shows you how to output information from Unreal Tournament 3 into a log using Unreal Script.