There it is – the soft disdain in their voices. “Games?”. It makes me think about one time someone bought me a shirt – and I liked the shirt, really, until I found out the one who bought it had seen it in an advert in “Vogue?”. But I’m not discouraged, and spin another tale about princesses and dragons, and how many of them I took care of in the last sitting. Then it’s the educational value, of course, in learning about fictional Orc battle songs (you won’t do that in school). Or in the post- throwing balls at the wall- era: the eye- hand coordination....

It’s a controversial thing, the console war. Many a life has been lost in this epic battle we all know and love. One of the main battlegrounds has been on the subject of online play. Xbox users argue to justify the $60 price tag for Xbox Live, while PSN players say that free is as good as it gets. Let’s take a proper look at this, keeping in mind that I will try to be as non biased as possible. Imagine that I am currently an Xbox Fanboy (not an “Xbot” per se, rather a moderately biased individual), fuelled by the recent Halo Wars demo and chomping at the bit to slam Killzone...

I’ve been waiting for several moments now, balancing a soda and a bucket of popcorn on the laptop. But finally the lights go down, and the main feature is about to open. Some lucky bugger (other than me) is going to play Killzone 2 on the big screen in the local movie theatre. But I see a glitch in the sky, as usual. And I’m sure that out on the edge of the map somewhere I can see the lights reflect on thin air, while gravity takes a miss on a spark that drops off the grid. Somewhere, a boot from a corpse is sticking through the ground, no doubt. But no one will notice, and the game-...

This is ‘Part 2′ of our Q&A summary, this article focuses more on the online and multiplayer aspects. Check out ‘Part 1‘ for the offline and singleplayer focused questions. Seb Downie (aka motherh) is the QA manager at Guerilla Games. Over the last few days, he has been replying to questions from the Killzone community over at the SCEA forums. At the time of writing, there are just under 900 posts, spread out between around 90 pages. However, we have trawled through it all to bring you some of the more interesting questions and answers. If balancing issues occur,...

This is ‘Part 1′ of our Q&A summary, this article focuses more on the offline and singleplayer aspects. Check out ‘Part 2‘ for the online and multiplayer focused questions. Seb Downie (aka motherh) is the QA manager at Guerilla Games. Over the last few days, he has been replying to questions from the Killzone community over at the SCEA forums. At the time of writing, there are just under 900 posts, spread out between around 90 pages. However, we have trawled through it all to bring you some of the more interesting questions and answers. Will there be an option to...

The Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II beta give-away is now closed, to read more about it check out the original article here. We had a staggering amount of entries, but only 25 of you guys can be one of the winners. The correct answer to the question was 399. So here is the list of winners; Chris Autwell D P Det Elliot Ayling J Drivett John McKrae Josh Torres Julio Garza Kamanashi Kyle Wright Luke F Max Dominguez Mbmcgee Mike Covington Remy Heimbach Timmy Nguyen Tomek Rospondek Vulpix The other seven winners mentioned that they did not want...

Another week full of gaming news, and another Gamer’s Digest to catch you up on the week’s hottest topics. Demos The Resident Evil 5 demo’s were dated this week, it is due to hit the XBL tomorrow (26th Jan) and the PSN a week later (2nd Feb). The demo includes two different levels from the game, Shanty Town and Assembly Palace, and will also include a taste of the online co-op action. For full details, check out our article. The F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin demo was released on Thursday on the XBL, PC and PSN, it features “several locations” from the game. The game is set to...

The Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II multiplayer beta is scheduled to open to everyone on the 28th of January, as reported by us in one of our previous articles. GamersDigest is proud to announce that we have 25 early access beta keys for the Dawn of War II beta, courtesy of THQ. If you want a chance to win one of the 25 keys, then read on; I am going to give you a sentence, and you will need to ‘add’ up the values of the letters and give me the number that you believe they all sum up to. Here is how it works, each letter in the alphabet is given a value according to it’s position,...

Another week full of gaming news, and another Gamer’s Digest to catch you up on the week’s hottest topics. Killzone 2 Killzone 2 (PS3), this game has certainly been in the lime light recently, and it is only going to get worse as we edge closer to release. Many sites and journalists have been posting their thoughts on the game, and one thing that keeps popping up is how damn good the game looks, but is it the best looking FPS? The guys over at Split-Screen try and answer the question, pitting Killzone 2 against one arguably of the best looking games ever, Crysis. There was also a couple...