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It seems that very few people really realize the different between these three things. This post will tell you what each word means, as well as useful info and examples  about them.

First, There is a difference in the last three between consoles vs PC. This means I will have a category for each, Starting With

 PC

Cheats: These are added/made by the people who MADE the game.In the sims 3 for example you press ctrl+shift+c to open the cheat menu.  typing in kaching there gives you 1,000 simoleons. THIS WAS MADE BY THE DEVELOPERS OF THE GAME. Cheats are in no way illegal.

Mods: On a PC mods are LEGAL. They are often (though not always)  made by people who had nothing to do with the development of the game. In Minecraft (as with most games) there is a large variety of mod. Mods go from editing a single thing to making the game completely different.

Plugins: These are the LEGAL multiplayer mods. All mods changing multiplayer are classified as a plug-in. They vary from adding a working economy in Minecraft’s mutiplayer to adding a new game mode in a CoD game.

Hacks: These are ILLEGAL multiplayer modifications (mods). You know when you are playing on your favorite CoD server (pc) and someone comes in who is in god mode or has infinite ammo? This is not a mod or plug-in (pc only) but a hack. Same thing as someone hacking your youtube account, illegal.

CONSOLE 

Cheats: These used to be something like “Hold down L+R, then press Y, Y, X, X” (real cheat from simpsons hit and run), though now they often have you go to a special menu and type in something like “ABUNDANCE IS EVERYWHERE” (red dead redemption cheat). These are put in the game by the developers and perfectly legal, just like on PC.

Mods/Hacks: on console these are both the same thing, illegal. Play CoD:WaW and more than half of the servers will be modded. For multiplayer on console there are no legal modification, nor are there on singleplayer. The devs of World at War released a zombie map maker on PC but couldn’t on console because for even them, it would be illegal.

Plugins: These are LEGAL “mods” released only by makers of the games (devs). Normally this is DLC, which is paid for, but the devs of (for example) TES oblivion have been allowed to release a few plugins legally on the console. Plugins are not actually mods, like that map maker is classified as, because they only fix bugs, add a few extra features, and a few other things.

Minecraft 1.0 is now out! I haven’t played much of 1.0 yet but has been very fun to play. Minecraft is now $27.00 (i bought it at about $15.00 a while ago) but is worth every dollar and more. Minecraft may be fully released but 1st you should look at the “1.0″ then if you have seen posts by notch on tumblr and other sites you can see that they are still going to be updating it even after release.

Most people know about the games published by big companies like EA or Valve but how many people know about Indie Games? Many more people know about indie games than last year.In this short post i will talk about a few indie games, and give you one place to find even more indie games.

First on the list is Minecraft which is leaving beta and being released November 18th, 2011.Minecraft in beta is $20.00 though the price will increase when it is officially released. Minecraft is an open world sandbox game where the world is an unlimited size. each new world you create is randomly generated though each world has  a “seed” so you can regenerate and share every world in its starting state without having to download anything. Minecraft can be found at http://www.minecraft.net/

Next is Terraria, Minecraft was hard to describe but Terraria is even harder to describe. The only way i can describe it is that it is a open world sandbox game with a randomly generated terrain which can’t be compared to Minecraft as it is a 2d plat-former. Though it is hard to describe it is a great game and worth the $10.00. You can find it at http://www.terraria.org/

Third is Project Zomboid, an Isometric Zombie survival game which is unlike any before i know of.  To explain it below is a small part of one of their blogs.                                                                                                                                                                                       “FIRST OF ALL — YOU WILL DIE. You’re trapped in a quarantined city with a million zombies. There is no escape. There is no cure. The end is coming, so get used to it.Project Zomboid is about the choices you make, and how you choose to live your last days on Earth. As a hero who goes out in a moment of heroic self-sacrifice to save a defenseless family? Or a callous coward who saves his own skin and leaves his companions for dead?It’s these choices, and the story you weave in your adventure. That is what Project Zomboid is all about. Not saving the world with some pie in the sky cure, or flying away in a helicopter where everything will probably be okay. This is the apocalypse.”                                                                           You can find the game at http://projectzomboid.com/blog/

Lastly i will tell you one easy place to find many indie games. Not all indie games are sold here but there are quite a few which you can find. The place is http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Indie/.

Though it isnt a new game i have started making a play-through of Burnout: Revenge. Though it has no commentary it will be updated in the future with post-commentary. Part 1 is below.(note that the video is Blocked in Germany)

I just got Dead island on Steam for $20.00 on sale. Almost right away someone joined my game, 10 minutes later another person joined, and another 10 minutes after that, the first person left, right after we secured the lifeguard station. Me and the other person got through a lot of quests, and once we were at the lifeguard tower he gave me a revolver, though i had little to give him.Soon after that he quit, so i decided to look at the revolver and saw it would be a long time before i could use it, because i had to get to level 32 and had just started.I decided to take a break and wait for one of my other games to install. Dead Island Is a game that i would recommend to anyone who likes zombie games(or even most other types of games).