I had no interest in picking up Saints Row 2 mainly because I had heard all the claims of it being a GTA clone and my interest in GTA dropped off entirely when the game lost my save game progress. I am sure I did something wrong but I am a seriously lazygamer and if I have to think about …

According to DPadMagazine the demo for Mirrors Edge is leaping onto PSN today and onto Xbox Live tomorrow morning. However right now I am taking that with a pinch of salt as they reference the official Mirror’s Edge site which doesn’t say anything of the sort. I have been looking forward to this game for quite some time now and …

Rare and Microsoft have put a Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts demo up on Xbox Live. The demo weighs in at 1.07GB, and contains a small portion of the Showdown Town hub area to explore. There’s also a chance to try some multiplayer challenges and a chance to make your own contraptions and try out the awesome lego-like building mechanic in …

The Unfinished Swan Tech Demo The Unfinished Swan really looks like an interesting game, and definitely something I would play. As to weather it will live up to my praise though is another story. What do you think? Having a look at the video. Would you pay for this game, is it too abstract? Do you think it could hold …

Broken Pixels: Lifeline The guys from broken pixels do a little dirty talk in Konami’s Lifeline. Lifeline is a PS2 unique voice-controlled game where you lend operational support to the onscreen femme fatale. But after seeing this episode you realize that voice recognition in gaming has a long way to go. With Endwar almost upon us its amazing to see …

As many of you will already know, Fallout 3, created by acclaimed developers, Bethesda SoftWorks, will be hitting South African shelves this Friday. With the current line up of games this season, it has become increasingly tough to decide on which game/games to spend your money on. While Farcry 2 has been quite popular, Fable 2 has seen massive sales and popularity in most regions. So which one to chose? Fallout 3 reviews are pouring out onto the net this week and the game is pulling in a current aggregate of 93/100 on Xbox 360 and PC and 90/100 for the PS3 on Metacritic. Perfect scores (100/100) have been given by some of the major sites and magazines such as 1UP, Gamespy, GamePro, Official Xbox Magazine and EuroGamer which really surprises me considering that a lot of the seem to be unusually negative and cynical when it comes to their review scores. Scrolling down also revealed that the lowest score given for the game was an 80, meaning that even the ones who didn't really like it, still kinda liked it. Is Fallout 3 the (not completely) unexpected overall winner across all platforms of this seasons line-up? With all the rest of the Xbox 360 and PS3 exclusives yet to arrive, we can't really tell yet. What I can tell is that this game looks like it's going to be worth the money and should keep a lot of us happy for quite a long time to come.

Ok, I don't really know how to explain this one, but it's pretty awesome. The guy in this video has actually trained his parrots to play EndWar by teaching them the commands of the game. While he still needs to give them instructions on what to do, the mere fact that the game still has no problem recognising their commands is pretty amazing to say the least. It looks like the developers of EndWar have really done a great job with the system and as we all know, if they didn't, this entire game would be worth nothing.

A report has come in confirming that a new Xbox Live starter pack has been made official and is going to be arriving sometime next week for the US price of $99.00. The pack includes a 60GB HDD, a 3 month subscription to Xbox Live, a wired headset as well as an ethernet cable. A touch expensive? Maybe. With 20GB HDD's usually going for around a grand in South Africa, it may not actually be a bad deal. This all however depends on the price it will be when it hits local shelves, which also brings me onto my next point. When I say next week, I mean next week in the US as there are no indications to whether or not we will even be seeing it in South Africa, especially since we don't even have local Live support. We can only hope to see it someday soon and with all of the extra online functionality being pushed towards the casual gamer with the new dashboard update, it's about time that we start seeing some proper news about some local support.