These life hacks can level up your video game experience. Find new ways to use your old consoles. Make your hardware last longer. Work through that backlog. Quite literally up your game. These tips and tricks won't magically solve all of the complexities of modern gaming (sorry, but day-one patches are just the way things go) but they will make your gaming life significantly better by cutting back on stress, saving you a few bucks, and making it easier to do what you love to do: play video game.
Gaming is complicated. It wasn't always. You bought a console. Plugged in a game. If it worked, great! If not, you blew on the cartridge, then mashed the power button until it did. Simple, right? But now, there are patches to download, hardware revisions to keep track of, metas to research, confusing pre-order bonuses to look up, and more. Everything is more complicated, and nothing seems to work straight out of the box.
