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A demo for the highly anticipated, but long-awaited and delayed, Splinter Cell: Conviction will be releasing on Xbox Live during this week, finally giving players a chance to try out Ubisoft's latest in the Splinter Cell series. The demo will be released this Thursday, which is the 18th of March 2010. The demo will feature two playable levels from the game that won't be directly after one anoth... more.

The team from Britain's FiveFWD gadget show did something really awesome recently, that being creating a full-scale replica of the training mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, "The Pitt", one where you're able to use real guns and flashbangs in. Jason Bradbury, TV presenter, posted the following on his website: "In what has to be the ultimate homage to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - w... more.

We're way late with today's question! Anyway, to be as to the point as possible, there are games we hate. Regarding series' and franchises, there are sequels and there are seeeeeeeequels. The former is what we, as humans, know sequels to be. The latter, however, is the endless repetition of games with the same names that eventually results in you raging at the very sight of said games. In a les... more.

Harsh words, right there, from Gavin Cheshire, Vice President of Codemasters, the guys behind DiRT, Operation Flashpoint and upcoming Bodycount. Gavin Cheshire is an owner of a PlayStation Portable, and his experience with it caused him to rage at Sony's handheld in the latest issue of the Edge magazine. "Well, speaking as a person who bought a PSP, the problem was that I always thought - beca... more.

I thought in this week’s eGameFame we could pay tribute to someone whose hard work has made millions and millions of people’s lives easier. Who is this person and what did he do you may be thinking about right now? His name is Martin Cooper and he is the creator of the cell phone. Yes, you heard me right. He invented the device that makes our lives and our work so much easier. He truly had ... more.

My good friends at Asus gave Egamer a G60JX gaming laptop to test and review. Let’s start off and look at the specs of this laptop. Model:              G60JX CPU:                  i7 720QM Mem:                8 GIG ddr3 1066 MHz GFX:                  GTS 360 1GIG HDD:                 500GIG 7200rpm S-ata Optical:... more.

Suffice to say, nobody really cares where XBox's go when they die because, well, another one dies every couple of minutes. What is cool though is the way they get to where they go when they die. When most people's XBox's get plagued by the dreaded Red Ring of Death, they throw them away or use them as projectiles in some random battle but whatever happened to a proper, old-fashioned coffin? Well A... more.

A lot of games claim to have great karma systems or moral decisions for the player to experience but in most cases this is far from the truth. While many games are introducing us to the concept of being able to make a decision during a cut-scene that will influence the story and change people’s perceptions of the character. Mostly however, this is not true. InFamous, great as it was, made mor... more.

Today, Bethesda announced that they will be publishing an all-new game titled Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, which is a third-person co-op dark fantasy game. The game is currently set to release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox360 and is being developed by inXile Entertainment, the guys behind games like The Bard’s Tale, Baldur’s Gate, and Fallout. “We are thrilled to be working with Bethesda ... more.

Have you ever dreamt that you were in the world of Pokemon. Taking the place of Ash, with Pikachu running by your side going to save the day, only to wake up an realise it was just another dream... Well.. now its time for your dreams to come to life. Below are some pictures of how Pokemon would look if they had to be in the real world. Yes, that means chilling next to you whilst you browsing ... more.

I realise that the phrasing of the question is a little odd to say the least, but then again so is the question. Having recently been exploding my eyeballs and brain with tons of God of War III footage, in anticipation for the game, and watching Kratos brutality murder everything in his path, I've began thinking about the powers of the mind, so to speak. So today's Question Of The Day is: Have ... more.

As you might or might not know, world famous Hideo Kojima, the big guy known for the PlayStation's Metal Gear Solid, has fairly recently gotten himself on Twitter. A couple of days ago, he tweeted something pretty interesting regarding the upcoming ‘lightning bolt action’ Metal Gear Solid: Rising - the one featuring cyborg ninja Raiden as the main character. His tweet says that Rising will att... more.

Hey guys! We're way late with this one! Due to this, we're giving away as many as 20 HoN beta keys with this giveaway - so grab them here while you can :D In order to win a Heroes of Newerth beta key, simply post a comment and in it, supply your preferred email address (the one you would like us to send the beta key to) and give us one reason why you want to play HoN - it can be one line, a par... more.

In anticipation of one of the PlayStation's biggest and best titles, God of War III, we've decided to put together a retrospective of the series, to go back down memory lane and see where it all began. However, that's not all we'll be doing, as we're also going to be upping your excitement levels for God of War III (if that's even possible!), which is due in only a couple of days. Without further ... more.

This competition didn't receive as much attention as the previous ones, and this could be due to the prize. Many of you felt that a TV Card was not necessary. Not to worry though, we'll try get something more gaming related next time round. So, this prize was was sponsored by BuyComputers.co.za, and the winner is SixiS. Congratulations! * How did we choose the winner? Well, we ranked e... more.