Gaming on macbook air 2012

Ive bought a mba at july and i started getting bored with it so i installed bootcamp windows 8 and also tried installing windows 7. I play games like fifa 13 and counterstrike:GO. When i play games, the fan turns quite fast, and it gets a bot hot. The weird thing is that when i play fifa, it becomes moderate hot but when i tried playing minecraft, it was burning. But my only concern is the battery, since the game drains my battery really fast, i have to charge it about 2-3 times a day since i always take the charger out when it is 100%. Should i just keep the charger on even if it us 100% or any other recommendations ? Thank you very much
Brian

Hi Brian,
You absolutely want to keep your machine plugged into the power adapter when you're playing games. There's no reason to rack up unnecessary charge cycles on your battery if it's going to be sitting on a desk or table while you're playing a game. You won't cause any harm to the machine or the battery keeping it plugged in, even at 100% battery charge, for extended periods while playing games.
Given how the MacBook Air is designed, it's going to get toasty, it's only got one fan and there's only so much heat it can pull of the CPU/GPU and push out of the machine. If you're not using the machine on a flat, hard surface with appropriate ventilation that's going to be step #1. A cooling pad won't hurt anything, if anything it'll help but it's far from necessary. I've spent countless hours on my MacBook Air playing Diablo III, World of Warcraft and Starcraft II without a cooling pad on A/C power without any issues.
Minecraft is going to run super hot because of Java, it absolutely cranks with the CPU/GPU and that's what is generating the heat.

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