I've been playing Nintendo for my whole life, so I have no idea on Sega (other than they were the sworn enemy back in the console wars). I'm collecting old videogames and have decided to buy a Mega Drive since the console and lots of games are found for pretty good prices. Now, I've read the Meg...

Pokemon Black and White has all new pokemon, and honestly, I'm not familiar enough with the game yet to tell you where you can find which pokemon. This is a problem, because I'm looking for a fast way to calculate Hidden Power in-game (I am aware that you can use IV calculators to determine what ...

My Fender Squier Rock Band 3 Guitar and Controller often doesn't register when I pluck the thinner strings, especially the thinnest one (at the bottom of the guitar, but which produces the highest notes). I can't use my pick to pluck them, I have to do it by hand, and pluck very hard indeed. Is ...

I've recently picked up a copy of BF2142 and I've played a few games online. I've learnt a lot by watching the other people play but one thing still alludes me. When the shield on an enemy titan fails and there is a mad rush to knock out it's reactor. I don't seem to have the equipment to knock o...

I miss so much X-COM: UFO Defense. I played UFO:Aftermatch, Afterlight, Afterwhatever, Extraterrestrials, but to me they are all unsuccessful imitations. Do you know any really good similar recent games? If its so good than it doesn't have to be alien-themed. Anything really good that has the s...

Recently, I picked Diablo 2 back up and have been playing lots of hardcore online. Once I get past the normal difficulty, I get extremely wary of other players and for some reason I think everyone is out to TK me. I really enjoy playing with others but the constant thought looming in the back of ...

I've been playing King's Bounty for a while now and have picked myself up a wife. I was very surprised when she asked me to have a child, but since I did not want to upset her (luckily I don't apply this game-logic in the real world) I went along with it. So after a while I embraced a new virtua...

Recently all my global add-on data is being ignored when I log in to any of my characters. I noticed since all my UI and add-on settings were as default. I initially thought that I may have lost all the data due to a crash, but I can see all the files are there in the global SavedVariables direc...

I have the Steam "edition" of Undercover and it has the quite annoying feature of not playing very nice with screenshotting. Since Steam actually launches some sort of launcher (sigh) that then quits, the overlay doesn't work (and so doesn't F12); also, when I try and press PrtScr, what I get in...

Hi there, I got a PS3 of craigslist from a guy in my area (about 25 miles). It is an original 60GB piano black model with a card reader. Anyhow, after the 3.55 system update it will not play Blu-Rays anymore. According to what I read online from searching, there was a problem with something lik...

Could you list "recent" (less than 10 years old) games that resembles the X-COM series? I've seen the UFO series and I know of some X-COM opensource reimplementations. I'm looking for games with the same mechanics, doesn't need necessarily to be alien-themed. Please note that this is not a game ...

The top answer to this question contains several references to "mid-battle leveling". I think this has to do with leveling up as a way of healing while fighting a difficult monster, but does someone want to clarify what this is?

If I've played for about an hour or two directly before going to bed I have trouble getting to sleep. Images of the game are still in my head and it takes some time before I can find some sleep. However, this doesn't happen with all types of games - adventure and racing games seem ok whereas firs...

Are they any arrangements of water around wood that can prevent it from catching fire? I'm mostly interested in these three configurations: ≋ Water ≋██≋ .██. .██. █ Wood ≋≋≋≋ ≋≋≋≋ .≋≋. Air

As pointed out by badp, we now have the ability as moderators to revert Community Wiki posts! We won't do this often (in essence, it needs to be convincing to allow reversion), but right now we've got a backlog of "maybes" that I think can be addressed. I'm putting to review a selected bunch of...

Do materials get used when you start a construction in Die2Nite? Or, do they get used when you finish a construction?

I dunno if someone has ever thought of this before, at least googling about it turned up jack sh*t. I'd like to be able to use my Logitech Momo Racing wheel pedals as extra buttons in some games. Namely, bind some panic abilities to them in a MMO game, and in general, just have something accessib...

I just saw this Stack Exchange site proposal, which is for Portuguese physics discussions. Up to now, it feels like everything not English has been kind of taboo here. There is a strong will to keep Stack Overflow English only, as every discussion on the matter has proven. Obviously, for non-Eng...

Anyone have any idea's on what this actually is? I'm not fussed, but it's been on my account for years and I've no idea what it is. Login to your account, http://store.steampowered.com/ , Then in the top right, click the drop-down and hit 'Account Details'

Trying to plan my ability trees and stats, including points received from books and any other source I don't know, how many points can be obtained without modding the game?

In the early version of SC2 (when Rax was able to be built before supply) EARLY reaper rush was very effective. In current days ... as far as I read few times on gaming.se and teamliquid - reaper rush is not used too often... And I never played against it on ladder (till yesterday). I was played...

I wanted to ask a question regarding fair use of IP(How much text,data can be quoted from a copyrighted website/textbook under fairuse?). The topic is not related to programming. Is there a place on SE where I an ask the question?

In Desktop Dungeon is it possible to beat Frank the Zombie with a Tier 1 Character? With 200+hp and a high attack I don't think I can beat him even with a lv 10 fighter with a save.

In Dragon Age 2, there is a glitch where if you unequip and re-equip a shield, then it permanently increases your character's armor by 34 each time. Is there a way to fix or avoid this glitch? (The glitch occurs even if you just replace one shield with another shield, so you can't avoid the glitc...

I have DOOM 1.9 [the shareware version] on a Windows 95 computer and I just beat Knee-Deep In The Dead. I know of a couple places to get other .wad files for DOOM, and I was wondering if all .wad files are compatible with all versions of DOOM, or would I need to get special ones, and if so, where...