My Macbook Pro is out of storage space, what should I do?

I take tons of pictures and that is what's sucking up all of my memory. I currently have a 2011 Macbook Pro OS X Lion Version 10.7.4. 4 GB memory 2 GHz processor. Now that I look at the "About This Mac" it says all of my storage is "Other" with 0 KB in everything else like photos and apps which I know is false. Anyway, what should I do? Should I go to best buy and get a bigger memory? its currently 500 GB & 499.25 of that is filled up... What could I delete to free up space? Should I partition my photos onto an external hard drive? I have no idea how to do that but someone please help!

Silly question but have you emptied the Trash lately?
If it turns out the problem is really just too many photos and you are using iPhoto for your pictures, check out this article on how to use iPhoto with an external hard drive.
Best of luck.

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iFixit has disassembly photo's and instructions.
OtherWorld Computing has drives. (7,200 RPM will give more performance and snappy OS X behavior, but at a slightly less battery life)
00 micro philips screwdriver, plastic compartmentalized case for holding each screw and a dropped screw recovery mat.
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Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your boot drive to a external DiskUtility HFS+ Journaled formatted powered drive (Firewire 800preferred) it's hold option bootable, so you can reverse clone onto a new HFS+ Journaled formatted hard drive.
Warranty AppleCare isn't void as long as you don't break anything, strip the screw heads and other tinkering or signs of bad tampering.

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<Doh>!
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My laptop meets/exceeds the requirements to play it. It only uses little ram and hardrive space.
I installed it a few days ago, my laptop started to get really worked up 30-60 mins into playing the game. My laptop was making A LOT of noise and got pretty hot, I could hear that it was making a lot of effort to ventilate the heat out and to keep my laptop cool.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
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