Resident Evil 5 has, amidst renewed claims of racism and complaints about archaic controls managed to do quite well in the UK. Not just well, mind you; that would a gross oversimplification. Resident Evil 5, you see, has debuted at number 1 on the UK charts. Even that is not it’s most heralded achievement to date; it’s managed to outsell …

The original Fable – Peter Molyneux’s over-hyped, under-delivered game for the Xbox was, despite its foibles, still a fantastic game. It’s also this week’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week, which should please Fable 2 fans who wish to explore a little of Albion’s history. Or at least it would, if Xbox Originals were available to us South African Xbox …

I’m a sucker for comparisons and especially when they come in video format so I can just sit back and be told what I need to know instead of reading it. Hey I don’t get called Lazy for nothing, so while we saw earlier last week that Eurogamer had given the Xbox 360 a resounding win in the comparison stakes …

Have you ever wondered what Sonic would look like if he was placed in Braids world? How about Donald Duck or Megaman… Well then your truly warped wonderings have been realised and you will be happy to know that Sony, Donald, Mr Mega and pretty much everyone else would look awesome when stylised in a surreal world. Abe over the …

The recent school shooting in Winnenden, Germany was nothing short of tragedy that left 16 people dead, including the killer – 17 Year old Tim Kretschmer. It was inevitable that somebody would try to draw a tenuous link between the shooter and videogames. This time, it’s the UK’s Times, who’ve given us some very “carefully thought out details.” Last Updated: …

So after years of infuriatingly pointless TV adverts Sony decided to go with the standard advertising platform for Killzone 2. Splash some gameplay footage and cut scenes across the TV and then plaster every non-moving structure with the box art of your game so that it becomes embedded in people’s skulls. Apparently though the box art of Killzone 2, which …

The Wits Wargames Club,  in conjunction with The Lair, will be hosting this year’s Gauteng eSports Championships. These are, according to Mind Sports South Africa, the only officially recognised LAN championships. The competition will take place on the weekend of March 21 (That’s this weekend for those of you who are calendrically challenged) at the Old Mutual Sports Hall in …

Some more news is leaking out about the upcoming Game Informer feature on Bioshock 2… Apparently in the upcoming sequel to the hit Bioshock you are going to get to play as the first ever Big Daddy, which makes absolutely no sense seeing that the sequel is also rumoured to be set 7 years after the last one. I can …