These girls are sexy, they’re hot and they have an instant drooling effect on any human male, level 15-80, who is watching them. These are the same girls who made you love them the way only a game-geek can love: truly, madly, deeply. However, they have one big flaw: they are game characters. They are not real, they are just a bunch of sexy pixels hugging each other, with only one goal in mind: to be perfect. And, boy, they’re really successful on that matter!

And now, let’s face it: we know they’re as real as Jack Thompson’s love for video games or GTA: Vice City’s multiplayer mode, but it crossed our minds a few times already that it would’ve been the coolest thing on Earth if they had been made of flesh and blood. Hell, let’s be honest to the end: we would’ve loved it if these girls had been ours and only ours, so help us God!

However, there is still one problem nobody has ever thought about: if these beautiful game characters got a real life tomorrow, would they really be the perfect company for our poor, geeky souls? We’ve not-so-randomly picked six of the best known and appreciated game heroines and judged them from a real-life perspective. We were shocked and scared. Let the countdown begin!

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Some 9 years back my dad bought me a 386 system which required a floppy to help it come in running state. No windows and no GUI and after all these disadvantages once I used to play those DOS games (like dave) then it felt like heaven. But don’t you all think we have forgotten those DOS games since the advent of our high end gaming systems.

Few of my friends still prefer playing those games but it isn’t that easy to handle the autoexec.bat files these day with GUI being the de-facto of every system.

Good news for all the DOS lovers. DOSBox for Windows, Mac, Linux etc. is a great app which supports around 3000 DOS games. It recreates those sounds and graphics setup and lets you setup your own processor speed so that you face least problems. So let us all revert back to history and pay standing ovation to the roots of todays games, the DOS games.

Download DOSBox

Check your wine rack, select your best game and enjoy the legacy.

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Once you have completed all levels of a game and almost mastered them, what next? Junk it? Actually, you can still have hours of fun. Add modifications (mods) to your games and multiply the fun. Mod DB has a large database of game mods – 2000 to be specific.

The site has simple, well-classified content to browse through – read about, develop, and discuss mods. Check out galleries of in-game screenshots and details about the games as well as the mod used. Register if you want to download and be part of the growing community.

Loads of mods, skin, maps, models, other files for most popular games are available for download. If you’re bored of playing the same old maps for multiplayer games like Counter-Strike, then why not make a one on your own? There is a good number of tutorials (basic / intermediate / advanced) and help for creating mods, maps, skins, models, and various other gaming elements to feed your hunger for more fun. Also listed are the tools that were used for creating the mods.

If you want to develop mods along with an elite group of developers, join groups such as Source Developers or Valve – or start your own. And if you’ve made a mod on your own, submit it along with a tutorial. Discuss your mod-creation problem with other members … this is a very focused site!

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Finally, gamers, too, have embraced Web 2.0 and social networking and all new things new. Gamervision is a social networking site with an interesting tagline: “By Gamers, For Gamers.”

Gamers willing to share their thoughts with other gamers can create their own communities: register and create a profile – then start writing your own articles. All the rest is Web 2.0 – save drafts, publish whenever you want, create or browse blogs … you get the idea?

All content on the site is entirely gaming-related. Gaming news on the home page includes reviews by Gamervirsion as well as community-based reviews. Members can create groups for discussing anything they think about any game. Sort of lends a perspective … Join any gaming group – such as “Halo 3” – to learn and discuss ways and tricks from other members.

You’ll find everything that makes for a useful Web 2.0 site – commenting, rating, bookmarking, sharing, etc. of the content. For example, you can comment on news, articles, and even blogs.

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Everyone loves to cheat – it’s good, clean fun, of course, because not everybody if born a pro gamer.

Head to ultimate-cheat: this site is entirely for cheat codes, news, and tips and tricks on a huge number of games on different platforms. You get cheats for titles on the Atari 2600, Lynx, and Sega – all the way to Xbox 360. This site is updated daily so you can find cheats and hints even for the latest titles.

The coolest thing here is that you can leave your feedback (if a cheat doesn’t work, for example) at the end of the cheats and hints for any game across all platforms. Along with the cheats, you’ll find news related to the game platform and genre, and game titles similar to the one you are looking at.

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