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How To Balance Video Games With Real Life

Growing up sucks. Jungle gyms are replaced by cubicles and healthy almonds replace gobs of Gushers. Or something like that. One of the worst things about growing up is that you never seem to have any time left over for yourself. For anything. Including video games, which are sometimes the first thing to go when it’s time to make compromises.



How To Play Games From The Japanese PSN On Your Non-Japanese Vita

Do you have a PlayStation Vita and a love of Japanese games, but feel the games you want to play take too long to get localised or — worse yet — will never leave Japan? Well, there is good news for you: the Vita is region free and can play any game from any region.


How To Make A Japanese PSN Account On The New PSN

Have you ever wanted to log on to the Japanese PlayStation Network to download some demos or buy a game or two but have given up on the idea because you don’t know how to read Japanese? No problem. Here’s a step-by-step guide that explains how to create a Japanese PSN account, add point card funds to your Japanese PSN wallet, and navigate the newly revamped PlayStation Store.


8 Tips For Surviving Longer Than Five Seconds In Super Hexagon

If you haven’t played Super Hexagon yet, you need to put everything down immediately and do so. Your boss, teacher and parents will understand. Unless you’re a brain surgeon. Please don’t put that scalpel down. It can wait.


How To Get Into Comics

With The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers posting record performances at cinemaplexes, it can be easy to forget that not everyone can rattle off the names of Bruce Wayne’s parents or the address of the X-Men’s school off the tops of their heads.


Here’s How To Get Your 3D Videos Off Your 3DS And Onto YouTube

So, you’ve got a 3DS and quickly availed yourself of its relatively new stereoscopic video recording capabilities. The work you’ve filmed with Nintendo’s little gaming handheld will melt faces.


An Owner’s Guide To Surviving Dark Souls

Some of the fun of playing Dark Souls, and Demon’s Souls before it, is the spectacle of the game and the sheer confusion you might feel when you first drop into the unforgiving world created by From Software.


How To Build Your Own Angry Birds Cake

Bakers have worked to capture the beauty of our favourite video games in cake form since the dawn of time. From amateur bakers to world famous chefs, video game cakes are a staple of any cook worth their weight in fondant. Now it’s your time to get your hands sticky and create your own masterpiece.


How To Hack Your Kinect

When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were (to put it charitably) a bit sceptical. Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator.


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