Videogames in both the past and the present have had various methods of hacking. Some are malicious with the intent of ruining the game for other players, while others are indented to make the game easier or harder for single players, and some hacks are even used in speedruns. While it can be tempting to condemn all hacks as cheating by players who don’t want to play fair, that’s not always the case. Some hacks are even helpful to the game and its community as a whole, so here are…

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Speedrunners are part of gaming’s elite group, and the skill is actually pretty easy to learn but it’s difficult to master. Speedrunning is gaming in its craziest form, trying to complete a game during the fastest amount of time possible. It has a community, several events attached to it, and a dedicated fan base of video games and gamers who provide tips, comments and have even tried to break some tough records. Picking a game Almost any game can be speedrun, but some games are better for it than others.…

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While cheating has a very negative stigma, cheating in a video game can often lead to real-world hurt. Including making the experience less fun, outright theft of in-game items, and other problems. However, not all cheating is bad, and when the act of ‘cheating’ is split into its groups of how and why it is done, then it can even be acceptable in certain situations. Cheating, much like every other activity, has a line and various degrees of the action and definitions. The definitions of cheating It’s always wrong: These…

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I spend a whole lot of time playing mobile games, which some might argue isn’t very productive of me, but I really don’t care.  It’s something that is a great time-killer in my free time, and it’s great when I happen to be waiting on something. Most of the games that I play are online, and I often get frustrated by the fact that they often expect you to pay in order to be able to advance. Micro-transactions are one of the worst things about online mobile games, and so…

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One of the things that frustrates me more than anything else is when I download a game that’s advertised as “free to play” only to find that I’m expected to pay a bunch of money in micro-transactions. Generally, I’ll see a game in the app store that looks cool and is a free download.  Then, once I’ve started playing it, I’ll realize that I can only play the game so much before I end up having to pay in order to continue. I have, however, found a bunch of different…

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