Gaming on MBA 2012 13"

Hi, I bought a 13" MBA 2012 4gb RAM last july and I was quite protective about my laptop. After about 2 months I added windows 8 with bootcamp and added some games like fifa 13 and starcraft. I've been playin fifa 13 for about a week and I can see that my laptop is getting very hot. the fan turns quite fast and the battery seems to be draining fast. I've actually played TF2 right after I bought this laptop but I didnt want my laptop ruined so I stopped. Now Im playing fifa 13 and I became worried about my laptop....
Will the battery life be affected a lot?
Will playing games damage or have any negative effects on my macbook air?
I play games on the highest end while my charger plugged in... Is this fine?
Please give me reccommendations... Thanks
Brian

Brian,
Welcome to Apple Support Forums
MacBook Air's are designed to be a notebook thats used on the move, light weight, long battery life and minimal spec, Although you can play games on it i wouldn't reccomend it, the processors aren't the fastest in the mac range and also air flow is limited due to its sleek design, hence the reason it gets very hot,
so you can continue playing your games but you will soon burn something out, most likely the processor or another vital component,
also with regards to playing them on battery power, the batteries are rated in cycles, from every time you charge it and it reaches 100%, Thats another cycle, so i would recommend leaving it plugged in during game play, but at the same time i can't help but question the fact you are using your macbook air to run windows 8, if your main aim is to play games, graphicially demanding or not, that are only avaliable on windows i would reccomend buying a PC.
I hope this helps

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