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Portal 2: Display FPS

contributed by David Kirk on April 19, 2011 under Games

When tweaking your Portal 2 graphics settings, it is essential to have an estimation of what your current frames per second are.

Nintendo 3DS: Setup Parental Controls and Limit Games by ESRB Rating

contributed by Jimmy Selix on April 14, 2011 under Games

This tech-recipe will explain how to setup Parental Controls on the Nintendo 3DS. These controls can allow a parent to limit the rating of games that can be played and limit play times.

Adding Non-Steam Games to Steam

contributed by Chris Luongo on under Games

If someone does not buy a game through Steam, he misses out on all the cool features Steam gives. Using shift-tab to pull up your friends list, communicate, join games–all of these are awesome but are only available through Steam. Luckily, the folks at Steam make it super easy to add a non-Steam game to your Steam library to give you those features.

Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age II for Mac: Display FPS

contributed by David Kirk on April 6, 2011 under Games

Displaying your frames per second in Dragon Age helps to optimize your video settings. These directions describe how to display fps in Dragon Age Origins and Dragon Age II.

Dragon Age II for Mac: Benchmarks and Graphics Settings

contributed by David Kirk on April 5, 2011 under Games

The Dragon Age series has been a real joy to the mac gaming community. Tweaking the anti-alias, resolution, v-sync, and detail settings can radically change your FPS. Hopefully, these benchmarks will help users tweak their DA2 settings to obtain the perfect balance between visual candy and performance.

Nintendo 3DS: Create QR Code Image of Mii for Sharing

contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 28, 2011 under Games

You can export a QR Code image of your Mii that can be used to import your Mii on any other 3DS. Just by taking a picture of this exported QR Code image, your Mii will be imported onto another device!

Nintendo 3DS: Finding Your 3DS Friend Code

contributed by Jimmy Selix on under Games

Nintendo has still not moved towards using a name or avatar based online system yet. Thankfully they have made it so that you will only need ONE friend code for your 3DS versus each game using a unique code. This tech-recipe will explain where to find your Friend Code once you have a Mii setup on your new Nintendo 3DS.

Nintendo 3DS: How to find the MAC Address

contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 27, 2011 under Games

This tech-recipe will explain how to locate your Nintendo 3DS WiFi MAC Address. Some of us that have wireless networks that use MAC Address filtering to add another level of security. This will allow you to add your new device to that list.

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