Five Important Things You Must Have Setting Up Your Very Own Game System

It's the same when you want to enjoy the newest block-buster at home, you need a decent sound system and a considerable wide-screen. We call them the basic things. It goes the same way with gaming and other entertaining activities.

In gaming, there are basically 5 essential tools that can make or break the deal. What are they?

They are a good computer screen, a sensitive mouse, a gaming keyboard, a decent graphic card, and a sound system. We will go into details now.

Essential thing #1: The computer screen

This is perhaps the first impression for gamers when it comes to playing their games.

Of course it's not necessary to purchase a huge wide-screen like watching movies requires. In fact, it will go against you if you do so. All you need is a good screen that will help relaxing your eyes.

Because we all know that players will spend hours after hours in front of the screen. If it annoys you more than help you, it's tough to enjoy the time!

Essential thing #2: The gaming mouse

Fact is, your mouse is like your main weapon when it comes to virtual battlefields.

This can't be truer when your favorite games are FPS like Counter Strike or Call of Duty. I remember how tough and ridiculous it was when I tried to finish the hardest level in CoD with a normal mouse. I couldn't beat those snipers until I plugged in my Razer Death Adder.

No pushing here, you can pick up your favorite brand. But remember that gaming mouses are not designed equally. Some are for FPS games, others might be designed for strategy games. So make the decision wisely.

Essential thing #3: The keyboard

There are some minor discussions among my friends (my game partners). They want to know if the keyboard is that important to the quality of the game match.

To me, it's not that crucial. At least in comparison with the mouse. But if you are aiming for something like a combo of gaming gears you can make extra moves. Not only you can save some money when you buy combo but it will also provide extra effectiveness for your response.

Who knows, just a mistype or misclick can be a win or lose matter!

Essential thing #4: The graphic card

But don't pay attention to just the graphical hardware alone. What you want is good computer hardware like a decent processor, a monster hard disk driver, a good cooling system, and the graphic card. They form the heart of the system. Without it, you simply can't play today's games. Because their requirements are incredibly high!

So if you're serious about entertainment with computer games, it's time to take a look at the hardware.

Essential thing #5: The sound system

Have you ever watched a block buster with the sound muted? So boring and looks stupid right? It's the same truth when it comes to playing games.

Five Best Free Games for iPad

An iPad has become a wonderful gaming platform leaving other consoles merely toys. To tell you the truth, I have become a gamaholic with the release of Apple's tablet computer. This gadget has even changed my daily routine.

I used to get up early in the morning, check my email and spend half an hour reading news, hot stories and preparing for my classes. And now I start my morning searching for the new games for iPad. I launch the App Store and run through game reviews to download another free app or game and test it before sharing it with my friends.

This device has become an iconic for many people. It quickly replaces popular gaming consoles since more and more developers create iOS games that are not only cool and fun to play but also free to get.

Here are the best free games for iPad that I cannot stop playing. They are very addictive.

1. PIY 4 HD is a great free game for music fans. Its full name is PlayItYourself 4 HD. This game will not teach you how to play the piano, but you will feel what it is like to be a musician, and maybe you'll even consider learning to play the piano one day in the future.

You score by following the notes highlighted on your screen. The music is amazing, no matter how quick or slow you are. So your children should enjoy it as well as you.

You can play only one melody in the beginning of this game. It is Beethoven's Fur Elise. But you can unlock other tunes by scoring and spending your points on the new unlocks.

2. Angry Birds Free HD Rio: If you have ever played Angry Birds you should know how addictive this game is. It's one of the best iOS games ever developed.

The Rio version of Angry Birds includes 12 cool levels. The graphics are amazing. You get to "send your birds" flying in Rio de Janeiro and fight against monkeys. Your main goal is, surely, to free your friends.

If you ever get tired of fun levels, just play beach ball game instead.

3. Words With Friends HD Free: It is one of my favorite free games ever. It is the best version of a popular childhood game.

You can play it with millions of iPad users from all over the world. Build new words, score and challenge your family to bit you in this fun game of word building.

You can enjoy 20 games at one time and invite your Facebook friends to compete with you.

4. AD Jewels ShooterHD: This game is perfect for the fans of Zuma. Do you remember that bubble shooter? Well, AD Jewels ShooterHD is a great "zuma" game for the iPad.

You can choose one of the four modes available. It is easy to play. Simply connect at least three diamonds of one color and they will be destroyed. Your game will come to an end if the stack reaches the bottom.

Place your finger where you want the diamond to shoot, and then release it.

5. GT Racing: Motor Academy Free+ HD: It is difficult to find the best racing games among all the free games available. They are all cool and fun to play, but still I have found a couple of apps that I can't stop playing.

How About Jet Fighter Games?

This is a comprehensive and easy to read list of good jet fighter games. This list will appeal to the tastes of any fan who enjoy fighter jet games, or flying games in general.

Out of the many popular games for jet fighter fans, Ace Combat 6 is currently one of the most played. This game came out for the Xbox 360 several years ago, and still remains one of the most activity played fighter jet games with an online community. Some of the highlights of this game include fast paced, intense fighting, along with highly detailed and strategic game play. Ace Combat 6 will keep you busy dodging and ducking and at the same time trying to focus in on your target, all while watching your radar and screen for incoming missiles.

Ace Combat 6 also has an interesting story line that will keep most users interested in the single play mode for long periods of time, allowing you to enjoy your time spent in the game. Single player mode also allows you to unlock and buy new jets and weapons for use by you and your wing man.

Another highly popular game is Free Falcon 5, while this is a free fighter jet game, it has the game lay experience that a paid game would have. Free Falcon 5 is the free version of Falcon 4.0 Allied Force, it has upgraded features at the cost of system stability during play. This is a computer simulation game so it would help to have a medium cost computer if possible.

Free Falcon 5 offers a highly detailed level of game play that will make you feel very much like a real air force pilot. The actual game play experience will involve many actions a real pilot would take, such as operating the complex radar computer displays.

The Choices You Have and What They Can Do For You

Studies show that games, more particularly video games, can actually be used to treat certain health concerns such as depression, addiction, and anxiety. So if you feel some stress in your body, maybe you should play Sonic games and you will be free of them almost immediately. For those who don't know Sonic, he is the cute and cuddly hedgehog that had served as Sega's mascot for the longest time. Sonic is also the protagonist of several dozens of media offerings.

If you want to keep your mind off your worries even for a short period of time, try playing the classic Sonic the Hedgehog game. There's also Rad Mobile, the racing game where Sonic first appeared. Since the release of the first Sonic platform game, more than 50 titles hit the market with all of them following the same feel and strategies included as the original one. Play Sonic games now and compare it with how they did it in 1991. You'll be surprised there won't be much difference across the versions at all.

There are Sonic titles included in all other genres and they may appear in both 2D and 3D versions. Aside from Rad Mobile, other Sonic racing games include are Sonic Drift series, Sonic R, Sonic Riders, and Sonic Rivals. As for fighting games, the titles include Sonic the Fighter and Sonic Battle. Sonic has RPG's too and the most famous one is Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

With all the different types of Sonic titles available, the choices players have are pretty much varied. You can play Sonic as much as you want as well. The internet is filled with this character and you are sure to have a field day playing one game after the other. Sonic definitely knows how to capture the hearts of gaming aficionados.

However, the most interesting Sonic offering would be the one that featured its arch rival in terms of sales and market share, Super Mario. There's a party game called Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games and that is just one of the crossover appearances of this character into Nintendo's world and vice versa. There are many other versions like it and most of them are easily available over the internet.

Play Sonic games and you are definitely going to feel good right after. The adrenalin rush that they provide can put you in an excited state - a state where worries doesn't have to exist. These games can do so much more than just to entertain you. They can be used for therapy even. Doctors and psychologists would have to say that these games can help in one way or the other in the recovery of certain patients.

Five Deus Ex Lessons for Wannabe Super Agents

Like how crawling out from a ventilation shaft into someones office and reading their personal e-mails, while the inhabitant of said office is looking right at you, is perfectly fine behavior and will not cause any suspicion at all.

I have managed to narrow down the five points that I think are the most essential for any super agent in the making.

1. Breaking and entering:

When trying to gain access to a building don't just go for picking a lock or breaking open a window like an amateur.

Instead you should look for a ladder or a ventilation shaft. All high security buildings will inevitably have an entryway left inexplicably unguarded.

And since we all know that all ventilation shafts in high security buildings must be large enough to accommodate a grown man and be covered with easily removable grilles, this is the obvious means of entry for any classy super agent.

Doors are for newbies

2. Cracking the code:

As a super agent you will often be called on to crack computers on door keypads (no, you can't just break the door, that would be unsportsmanlike).

Should your hacking skills not be pro enough for the task, then you need not worry.
People, especially those working for top secret organizations, all have the memory and common sense of a gold fish.

Not only are they completely unable to remember any password they are given beyond the time it takes to boil an egg, but they also have no qualms about writing down that password in an e-mail or on a notepad lying a couple of feet from the protected asset.

3. In the line of fire:

Even a sneaky super agent needs to be able to handle himself in a firefight. Should you find yourself under attack from private security guards, then you just need to remember that private security has only been trained in shooting at targets out in the open.

Simply get in a ventilation shaft (it's a high security building, there is bound to be at least two within 20 yards) and hang out as the guards fire ineffectively into the wall above the vent, vexed by the situation of having to depress their angle of fire by 15-45 degrees.

Not only that, the guards will try to solve this complex conundrum of vectors by going right up to the ventilation shaft entrance, emptying clip after clip into the wall in frustration as they go.
All you need to do is sit back and wait, then blast off their kneecaps when the opportunity presents itself.

4. Up close and personal:

Not every combat situation will be one resolved with firearms. A good super agent must be ready to take down his opponent with his bare hands as well.

In cases like these it pays to know about the phenomenon known as "temporary paralysis by awesome", which all security guards suffer from.

You see, as long as you can take down an opponent in a sufficiently impressive manner, such as tapping him on the shoulder and then punching him unconscious with a single blow to the head, then any fellow guards nearby will simply be too impressed to react while you perform this feat.

They'll carry on doing whatever they are doing, blankly staring at you as you brutally induce severe head trauma to their friend.

This will give you time to make for the nearest vent and prepare to bust some caps.

5. Elbow blades:

If possible, get some. They are great.

I'm a passionate gamer and lover of science fiction.

With more than 25 years of gaming and consuming sci-fi in every media form, I consider myself something of an expert.

I write reviews, impressions, opinion pieces and things that are just meant to make you smile.