In Puzzle Agent, you can use pieces of ABC gum to receive hints to help you solve puzzles. Is there any in-game penalty for this? Is it better for me to use a hint and get the correct answer on the first try, or to guess even when I'm unsure and risk getting the puzzle wrong? Will it negatively a...

I have seen several games that have a video display mode that is windowed with no borders, at the same resolution as the desktop. It's sometimes called "Borderless Windowed" mode, or "Maximized Fullscreen" mode. It seems to balance the tradeoff between running in fullscreen, and running a game in...

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/global-network-auto-login/ How does SO's new auto-login feature work? Something about having to deal with this feels really clunky. Am I the only one who feels this way? Is there anything that can be done to improve this user experience? Said another w...

"Last Train from Explosion Town" I'm up to the point where the flying enemies start coming at you, and I just get cut down every time. I can't find somewhere to cover during this sequence and I've tried it half a dozen times at least. Is there a good strategy I should be aware of? I'm playing o...

In the odd occasion I find myself having to get involved in a fight I always end up getting my ass handed too me. I find switching from the normal motion and action controls to responding to fast quick time prompts very tricky. Can anyone offer any tips on how to react better? Any sort of pattern...

I hope I find some help here... I'm playing Fallout New Vegas on a descent machine, the game normally runs with 70-90 FPS on highest settings when not using vsync. But I hate playing without vsync because the video tearing is unbearable. So I enabled it, the FPS is stable at 60 FPS but the game s...

There are two expansion packs for Civilization IV, Warlords and Beyond the Sword. Are these two separate expansion packs with unique features not found in either, or is the second (Beyond the Sword) a further expansion of the first (Warlords)? Put differently, if you're new to the game, is there ...

Hi guys, this has been bothering me for quite some time. I really want to revisit the game, but I forgot the name. It's a space colonization game with AI opponents, you collect resources from planets (sometimes sucking them dry), colonizing planets with your race. Sorry I'm not more specific, I ...

Recently I saw some statistics about how many people are in each league (bronze / silver / gold / platinum / diamond / master). That is 6 leagues, and Bronze was something like 40% of the entire ladder. To me that seems pretty rough. Top bronze players are not stellar, but they are good enough t...

I noticed this today on my user page: 20117 reputation 556 views flag weight 180 What is flag weight? I mean, I have an understanding of what it should be, but why would certain flags be more meaningful than others?

How to pause in Dragon Age 2 Demo during combat? it say it can be done somehow.

Now that Riot has implemented a queue system at login, I spend even 30 minutes in the intro screen. I would like to mute the music there, so that I can play other games, see videos, etc. while waiting. Is it possible in some way?

I see that in King's Retreat there is a Rare Planarite Goods vendor. I can afford the purple pants, it would use up my only purple 'planarite' (forgot what it was called, received from an invasion). Would it be better to just save it for the next zone? Currently level 17.

All of these events in Rift have a contribution meter. How exactly is contribution calculated for these? Furthermore, what might be the best way to maximize contribution per event? Some rifts I noticed I don't contribute as much as other rifts but I feel like i'm doing the same thing.

Is it possible to throw caged animals into a pit without connecting each cage to a lever? When I try to assign the animals to a pit, they break loose from their cages as soon as a dwarf start dragging.