I upgraded to a new compaq laptop last year with windows 7 installed, and now i'm unable to play my old dos games and its giving me this error message when i try to play : The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system informa...

I just bought and downloaded the most recent Humble Indie Bundle, and I downloaded a .run file for one of the games. I set the file to executable with chmod +x Trine.64.run and then tried installing it with sh Trine.64.run I am getting the following error: Trine.64.run: 1: Syntax error: "(" unex...

In Minecraft, biomes are (supposedly) decided by an area's calculated temperature and moisture. A very "dry" area may be a desert, a "cold" area may be a tundra, etc. This also affects things like grass color. In my experience, forests tend to have darker grass than plains. If I, for example,...

Hi, I'm not so sure i understand how to get into hand to hand combat in RE5; it seems that occasionally i get a hint to press F and make hooks, but other than that and the machete, i don't see a way to just punch or kick an enemy. am i missing something here?

I would like to get to island 8 and I'm wondering, does the sun just tick down at a constant time chasing you as you fly (therefore you want to fly as fast as possible)? Or does it speed up as you get to later islands? Also, does it have a max where you can't get too far ahead of it? (i.e. if ...

I have a Dell Dimension E510. Its most important gaming specs are: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz CPU 1 GB of RAM (with a max of 4 GB) ATI Radeon X300 with 128 MB Typically I enjoy playing Counter Strike Source online, but find that it is often difficult to play due to delays. Other games I like to p...

When I try to start a match in Digital Paint: Paintball 2 I get a huge amount of error messages after I click 'Start Game'. The error message is: SZ_GetSpace: overflow WARNING: msg overflowed for x3m157 (x3m157 is my username). Any idea what is causing this? The map I'm trying to load is pbal...

What tricks and tips have you employed to keep building Supply Depots all game? I've tried keeping one SCV idle to remember, but I keep getting supply locked.

What are the differences in terms of story and gameplay between single player and co-op? A friend and me have just bought Magicka and we are wondering if we should start play in single first or if we can immediatly start play in 2.

I recently got my hands on the latest BlazBlue game and have been happily beating my way through the story mode. However, whenever I decide to give the arcade mode a try, never seem to be able to beat the final encounter, the Unlimited Hazama. From what I've gathered in my searches, there is no ...

Hello everybody... The game works perfectly except many graphical glitches with textures (mainly those in the background). any hints?

Hi, I want to ask if by chance someone knows an one old game. I can not remember name of this game. I remember only the game itself. It was a sci-fi strategy played out in postapocalyptic Earth in the future. Nothing will not building, just buy troops, vehicles and ammunition box. Fighting there ...

Hi all The missus just got Sims3 on WP7, apparently it's driving her nuts and is very slow paced (?). Anyway, is anyone aware of cheats for this phone? iPhone ones don't seem to work.

Given free use of the console to increase skills and attributes and objects/other effects held, used, obtained or invoked (e.g. a Fortify Attribute from a spell or birthsign) is there a maximum level that is practically used in-game for skills or attributes? In this context I mean "practically" ...

Hello, I was wondering if y'all could help me with identifying an old action/adventure game. I used to play it around the mid-to-late 90s. I know it was in a post-apocalyptic setting, where the world had reverted to an almost medieval technology level. You would fight mainly with melee weapons, ...

Hello, There's an old(ish) sort of strategy game that I played a while back. It's not exactly a strategy like StarCraft is, it's... well, it's pretty difficult to put into words. My memory is also pretty sketchy when it comes to the details. I know that it was a side scroller and you controlled ...

Portal 2 comes out April 19. Will it be available for digital download in the Xbox Marketplace?

Are all Xbox games compatible with Xbox 360? For example, I want to play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Would there be any kind of problem?

Assuming an N by N square playing space, with both towers and enemies taking up a 1x1 area, what is the optimum mazing setup to force enemies to spend the most overall distance pathing within the N by N square maze?

when i watch starcraft 2 people leave at the end that werent even playing, i think they are viewers, how can watch a game like that?

How can I use the PS3 Navigator on PC? I want to substitute WASD by the Navigator to play FPS. I think it can be more ergonomic.

I want to buy a Borderlands game but which edition do I choose, normal or GOTY edition? What would give me more value for money? I see the normal price for just the game is $20 and the GOTY edition is $30.

In Minecraft 1.4_01 if I have a vertical wall standing on dirt with a water source block placed where the wall and ground meet (see below) can spiders (or any mob for that matter) even reach the wall? C = Cobblestone D = Dirt W = Water Source C C C C CW DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD For the ...