Many of today's popular games are about a co-operative experience. Shooters (both third-person and first-person) require at least a moderate amount of teamwork from their players, if those players expect to be successful. Squad-based shooters and tactical shooters require even more coordination and planning from players. Success in these games isn't the work of one person, it is the work of many moving parts reacting to situations as they unfold. Each person brings their own skillset, and each person is required to react dynamically as new needs arise.

MMOs such as World of Warcraft have expended this idea as well. The whole idea of a "raid group" is to design a much larger cooperative team, from a much larger pool of possible players and characters. The nature of an MMO means that your players are more variable in nature, and the characters (with all of the choices for race, class, skills, spells, armor, weapons, items, etc.) are infinitely more variable. But, even with the greater variances, many of these groups run like clockwork as they run through the end-game content over and over.

It may go without saying (and it often does), but it needs to be said - running a successful gaming website requires the same kind of teamwork. And I am lucky to have a great team. Our volunteer staff of Editors/Mods do a great job in the day-to-day running of the site, but I want to take a moment to really thank the Admin Team that works behind the scenes.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is a racing game from Criterion, the game is a sort of hybrid between Burnout Paradise and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. It has pretty good multi-monitor support, I didn't need to mess about with the resolution, renders horizontal plus by default, the HUD is by default located to fit to a 16:9 aspect ratio, however there is an option to change the HUD scale, and this can be used to move it to 16:10 or 4:3. The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, feel free to like or dislike my video and comment are always welcome too.

While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.

Some screenshots can be found here.

Monster Hunters Tri is an action game that sees you taking the roll of a monster hunter who's main purpose it to hunt and kill or trap the biggest and baddest monsters around. The game is actually a Wii game, a 2 year old one at that, and to get it running on a multi-monitor system I've been using the dolphin emulator as well as a few other tools that let me create an image from the original game on my Wii. The video itself is part analysis, part walkthough and part waffle, and I largely made it just to see if I could get it working, in my opinion Monster Hunters Tri was/is one of the best games out for the Wii. Feel free to like or dislike my video and comment are always welcome too.

While this video can be watched on any screen it has been encoded to look best on a multi-monitor system, so if your running such a system, then select original quality from the drop down box and watch in fullscreen.

Some screenshots can be found here.