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.

The beta client for PlayStation Home has been hacked, reports Engadget. Reputed PlayStation 3 hacker “StreetskaterFU” decrypted the code late last week, giving access to those curious or seeking exploits. Though it’s too early to say for sure, possible exploits could allow homebrew applications and game backups to be played off the hard drive without swapping. Of course, “game backups” …

LBP developers Media Molecule have announced that the servers for LittleBigPlanet are officially online. While this does mean that any lucky people who already have a copy can start using them, it also means that everyone can look forward to having instant access to the servers and not have to wait for them to go online or sort out there issues, which I find to be a problem with a lot of titles these days. It's great that with all the talk of these games crowding the internet all year, the time for gaming greatness has finally arrived and will continue for the next month and a bit.

Yesterday, we reported that Ubisoft was showing greater sales on the PS3 than the Xbox 360. Granted, the information was only for the United States. Today, According to the latest sales reports from Namco Bandai, Konami, Ubisoft and EA, the Playstation 3 is actually selling more titles than the Xbox 360 despite having a smaller install base. More after the jump. While the PS3 has been playing the catch up game to the Xbox 360 for quite some time since its later launch, it looks as if it's time is nigh. With Microsoft pushing the new 360 price drops as well as the releases of Fable 2 and the mighty Gears of War 2, one must wonder whether the PS3 will be able to keep up with LBP, Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 but a significantly higher price still. The truth will only really come out after the Christmas rush is over and to be honest, I have no idea who is going to be out in front when all is said and done. We will keep our eye on the stats and see how Christmas plays out.

MK vs. DCU 'Super Moves' trailer HD With news hitting that the game has been somewhat cleansed in order to meet a teen rating, I was wondering what was left for Mortal Kombat fans. Well here’s a trailer of all the supermoves in the game and how you can seamlessly link them to combos, looks like fun really. But with …

As if Burnout fans haven't already been spoiled rotten by Criterion Games with the mountain of free DLC that has already been released, it seems that they are planning even more. Criterion now have four more DLC packs planned and will be releasing info about them on each one a week after each other starting November 7. Criterion have apparently been working on an entire new island so fans should be able to enjoy a lot more of their game once the packs are released. Whether or not any of the packs will be free remains to be seen.

So... you have heard all these great things about Fallout 3, which is releasing at the end of this week. The game sounds really interesting but you really have absolutely no idea of what to expect. What happened in the first two games and why were they so popular? This awesome retrospective created by Gametrailers.com takes us back to the beginning and explains the whole deal. If you are interested in Fallout 3 but never had the chance to play any of the previous versions, check this out.