What's the deal with trees in minecraft? Ever since the update they've been.. er... three-toned. Is this intentional behavior?

So with the latest patch spiders can climb walls. What can we do to secure our towns/castles/hovels against these new mobile menaces? Does adding a lip to the wall work? Or is there some block they won't climb?

I recently downloaded NetHack, and have begun to play on my laptop. However, I find the directional key bindings rather cumbersome. I do not have a Number Pad, and would rather not use the NumLock function on my laptop's keyboard. So, I'm currently left to deal with the default non-numerical b...

One thing I love about the stack exchange sites, is that I can quickly and easily sort any of the questions by the number of votes. What would be even better is if I could quickly and easily sort by views. That way I could see some good questions that did not receive as many votes, but are belo...

When you use Bone Meal as a dye on Wool, you just get Wool in return. Also, once Wool has been dyed another color, it cannot be dyed white again. What's the point of using Bone Meal if it doesn't change anything?

I have the limited edition of the game so already have the cop version of the Porsche Cayman S but I would like to know how to get the racing version. Has anyone unlocked this? thanks,

Recently I purchased a platinum package of Hearts of Iron II (includes Doomsday and Armageddon) at a real bargain price. However, I never played any Europa Universalis-based game before and now wonder if HoI2 with all expansions is the proper way to start with Paradox grand strategies. To be hone...

How do you approach the Khan scenario that comes with the basic Civ-5? Couple of ideas I'm working on, but always nice to hear from those who have tried and succeeded... 1) Send horsemen off in different directions to explore the map whilst growing/building new cities? After about 40 turns i fi...

Does dyeing your clothes/cape have any effect in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, or is it purely cosmetic?

I am playing Metal Gear 4 on PS3. I have not played any of the previous games in the series and the plot is full of old reverences. Can someone give a quick summary on what happened up series 3?

I know there are certain songs that cannot be imported from one version of Rock Band into another due to licensing issues. What songs from Rock Band and Rock Band 2 are restricted in this way?

I would like to try my hand at creating a custom map in Starcraft 2 that has a third-person camera follow an individual unit. There are a few custom maps that exist with this feature already, so I do know this is possible. What I'm having trouble wrapping my head around are the features that ar...

I was recently playing MW2 on PS3 and noticed that some of the players have the word "Unbound" where their clan tag should be on their player card. What exactly does this mean? Are they a punk glitcher/hacker playing on a modded PS3? Does this also occur on Xbox 360?

I have following problem - I play macedonia and I've conquered all Greece and nearly all Balkans. I've anexed Daci but one province is left uncolonised (it borders 5 of my provinces and 1 barbarian province) because it have 5 barbarian power. Unfortunatly the chance for horde is 0% (too much civ...

I got level 28 but never used rune before. I have now some points and can buy some Tier 3 runes. But how does the rune combiner work in League of Legends? Which Tier 3 runes should i put together? Are there any recipes to build better runes or combination result is random?

In order to find myself some nice lapis lazuli and get away from my current base, I'm building a little tunnel in the Nether to allow me to get into the midst of some fresh chunks fairly quickly. I have a nice little stone house, but as Ghasts and zombie pigmen can spawn at "any light level" in ...

How can I broadcast my desktop (like Windows Remote Desktop, VNC, etc.) while I'm playing a game, with enough speed that my gameplay will be somewhat smooth? Can anyone recommend some other software (Mac OS, Linux)? VNC framerate is just a little low. I can understand someone will say that the...

Hey guys... I am on a wirless network...trying to play CS 1.6 with my friends, they all are using winXP and can connect to the server( created by one of them), but I cannot connect to them using windows 7 64-bit. we all are using the same CS 1.6 game. I have turned off my firewall as well as clo...

I have been playing Warhammer 40k, Dawn of War for sometime now and I like the game. I have finally come up with a strategy that seems to work out fairly well. My Strategy: I am used to setting up my base in the beginning by creating a few units mainly for capturing flags. They cannot put up muc...

I have only recently started getting into the SE network of sites. As a new user it was a little confusing that I had to create a new account for each site, as I would have imagined that these would be combined into one account. I now understand why, Open ID requires new authorization for each si...

Case: Antec 1200 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R CPU: Intel i7 950 (stock cooler) GPU: EVGA GeForce 570 GTX RAM: 2x 2 GB (4 GB total) DDR3 dual-channel Corsair OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit This is my first build and it's brand new. I had no problems putting it all together in a few hours one ...

If I wanted to create a "tank" in DC Universe Online: that is, someone who bears the brunt of attacks and protects his/her allies, what power set and what abilities should I invest in? Are there specific abilities I should avoid?

I recently bought 1500 points fdrom microsoft with my credit card, I had 440 so I was at 1940 .. then spent 1600 on some dlc so I got to 340 as usual there was a charge on my card for X amount but today that I checked my bank balance I found that microsoft gave me back exaclty X amount of money ...

Is there any way to subscribe to receive emails about Steam games offered at 50% or higher discount?

I love to play games, but being married now and going to school I find myself falling into the pit of spending too much time gaming. What are some good techniques to limiting my game-play so that I don't have an angry misses and actually get some things done around the house while still enjoying...