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These are sites dedicated to providing help in playing (and completing) games. This refers to cheat codes, strategy guides, walkthroughs and secrets or easter eggs. Most of these sites accept user submissions that are added to the “knowledge base. Perhaps the most popular site is gamefaqs.com which has codes and links from other sites as well.

Typical Services/Sections:
Cheat codes, strategy guides, reviews, FAQs, webboards, game saves (other peoples saved games that you can download), search engine

http://www.gamefaqs.com
http://www.a2zcheats.com
http://www.cheatcc.com
http://www.gamewinners.com
http://www.cheatplanet.com
http://www.gamegenie.com


Others

http://www.gameshark.com (Gameshark)
http://us.codejunkies.com ( Action Replay)

These sites specialize in cheats that involve direct manipulation of the game in runtime. In other words, the code involves manipulating the memory address where, for example, the variable of how many lives you have is stored. These “codes” require a special peripheral that must be purchased separately.