Having trouble rescuing hostages and serving those high-risk arrest warrants? This guide to SWAT 4 offers a full walkthrough, cheat codes, and general strategies that will help you get those armed suspects to respect your authoritaw!

Driving hundreds of miles to E3 without a pass, or a plan? Check. Dueling on a Game Boy with a total stranger in a Japanese arcade? Check. Playing X-Com for two days straight? Check. Sure, games haven't driven us to kill anyone, but they sure have gotten us GameSpot editors to do some wacky things.

One of the more bizarre games to launch with the PSP, Metal Gear Acid pits Solid Snake against a base full of soldiers with only one weapon: a...deck of cards? That's right; in this card-game, turn-based strategy game, you'll need to construct a deck drawn from over 200 cards based on events and characters in previous Metal Gear games, and use it to defeat numerous soldiers, robots, security cameras, and a few bosses. GameSpot's Walkthrough to Acid gives you a full walkthrough and plenty of deck construction tips to help you out!

Jade Empire puts you in the shoes of a humble student of martial arts in a small academy on the fringes of the massive area ruled over by Emperor Sun Hai. When disaster and strife falls upon your tiny village one day, you'll have to embark on a quest to discover the source of the corruption that's rotting the Empire from the inside out. In this Walkthrough, we'll give you a complete walkthrough for Jade Empire, as well as tips on combat, using your followers, and the many styles of martial arts available to you.

This week's column is chock-full of PSP-related questions, ponderings on the future of the MMO genre, and the ultimate burning question that all people should ask themselves at one point or another: Do our lives have meaning?

This walkthrough includes a full walkthrough, videos, and general tips on helping Kratos exact his revenge.

This week, we discuss the joys of region-free gaming, wonder out loud about the future of UMDs, and discover that deep down we're all a bunch of lousy communists.

Nintendo-related questions come flying in: What's going on with DS games like Meteos and Another Code? Is the upcoming battle between the DS and the PSP the true handheld war? Is there a DS dead-pixel epidemic?

Learn how to get movies from your PC to play on the Sony PSP!

Five of gaming's greatest storytellers share their thoughts on their industry, their work, and their medium of choice.

Willkommen to another exciting, riveting, and thrilling edition of Burning Questions.

AMD's Jonathan Seckler explains how AMD is approaching 64-bit desktop computing and the upcoming multicore processor revolution.

We got our hands on three recently announced Sony Ericsson models bound for the US market. Read on for our impressions of the hot new hardware.

It's March. That means college basketball teams around the country are fighting for their lives and bringing their A-game in order to get to the big dance.

This feature includes the games of the month, our monthly buyers' guide, and a link to the newest Let's GameSpot.

Learn more about the finalists for the 2005 Independent Games Festival in this feature, which includes downloadable demos and streaming movies.

The premiere episode of Burning Questions, a mailbag feature hosted by GameSpot's Alex Navarro.

Month in Sports Gaming - March 2005

In the latest Star Wars-themed first-person shooter, you take on the role of an elite Republic commando, tasked with going behind enemy lines and causing a whole bunch of mayhem. GameSpot's Walkthrough will give you a full walkthrough, tips for controlling your squad, and detailed looks at all of the game's many weapons and enemies.

Find out what racing wheel is best for Gran Turismo 4 in our PlayStation 2 wheel roundup.

We welcome the virtual boys of summer to spring training in our look at the 2005 baseball titles.

This feature highlights some of our favorite romantic moments in gaming's recent years.

Let's be honest: Trek has been going downhill since the end of Deep Space Nine. The same can be said of the gaming franchise, which has never really had a golden moment. So how do we turn things around for Star Trek games?

You know his clothing line. But what business does Marc Ecko have making games? Watch our exclusive video interview and you'll soon find out. This man may be new to making games, but we think he knows his stuff.

War is hell, but luckily, it's also pretty damn profitable. GameSpot's Walkthrough to Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction will help you nab all of cards in the Deck of 52, give you tips on completing the game's many missions, help you maneuver the political minefield of factional combat in North Korea, and supply you with maps for all of the game's hidden bounty items.