Games can sometimes be related to people in the sense that they are dynamic, fun, and good looking. Or they are not so easy on the eyes, hard to grasp, and you often don’t get along. We all have a favourite game, and we all know, and have seen people – so why not mix the two together?

We’d like to know: If your favourite game could be any person, who would it be and why would it be that person? Name the game too.

There’s a chance that it would be a famous person, or it could be a close friend for any other reason that we’d like to know. Remember, try include pictures if possible – we love pictures.

Last week we queried: Question Of The Week: What Do You Hate About Your Gaming Device?

The winner is sage of the six paths.

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize a winner

We’re all fan-boys in some way. Each person has their own likes and they will forever fight about it, until death. But you know what, we never really hear about the dislikes. There’s never a compromise, or a truthful answer like: “Yes, the PS3 controller does suck” or “Yes Xbox doesn’t have Blu-Ray and that sucks”. Instead it’s all about mine is better than yours because I said so. And PC fans, let’s not get started, we know what kind of fighters you are.

In all honesty this week, let’s end the debate with pointing out the negatives instead of the positives. We all know the positives, we’ve all heard the positives time and time again. Tell us, and your fellow commenters, what do you hate about your gaming device? Or perhaps you hate something about another device, what is it? It can be anything.

Last week it was What’s Your Favourite Game Modification/DLC Pack/Expansion?

And we’re kind of ashamed, but Courtney has won. With Sims as the answer. We need a new randomizer.

But, we’re nice. So, congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize a winner

Most games can be improved with a little tweak here and there, but some games require a large modification for success. Over the years PC games have been flooded with modifications which have created new types of games from what was once a simple success. For example, Half-Life was a great single-player game with mediocre deathmatch multiplayer. And then came the Counter-Strike modification, creating one of the best competitive games ever. But maybe you like expansions over modifications?

Consoles, on the other hand, do not have the ability to enjoy such variable enhancements. So for this week’s question it’s going to be slightly adapted for each party: console and PC.

We want to know: What’s your favourite modification/expansion for which game? Or, if you can’t answer that, what’s your favourite downloadable content (DLC) for which game? If you don’t have a favourite, tell us why.

By the way, DotA isn’t a modification/expansion it’s a map – so that answer doesn’t count.

Last week we pondered: Which 2011 Title Are You Looking Forward To?

We’ve randomized the winner, as we always do. The winner for last week is: Michael

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize a winner

Thanks to Rich for the question!

Next year is expected to be busy, especially the first quarter. We’re expecting all kind of titles, good and bad. Perhaps a few more for Kinect and Move and perhaps a few in 3D. Maybe we’ll get real games for Kinect and Move. Who knows what the following year holds.

But, from what we do know, which 2011 title are you looking forward to?

Last week we asked What’s The Best Game For Multiplayer?

We said we’d give away two vouchers because we missed a week. So we’ll do just that.

The first winner was chosen at random, and it’s Winston Whitehead. Here’s the lucky comment.

The second winner we hand-picked. Don’t ask how, we just seemed to agree on this one. It’s NightStalker007. Congratulations!

If you’re unsure of a release date for a specific game, or you want to go through an entire game database – check out our Log Book. It could be helpful!

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize a winner

A few weeks ago we asked what’s the most intriguing box art, but this time round we want to know something quite the opposite. Obviously we liked everyone’s opinion on the previous question, and we’ll all opinions here too, so don’t be shy.

This being said, we’d like to know: What’s the lamest, most boring box art? And why?

Last week we asked: Has A Game Ever Made You Sick?

After enjoyable replies, we randomized to get a winner: CaViE

Congratulations, now go buy some bibs — just in case.

Here’s the comment.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize all entries for a winner

And we don’t mean Influenza. Because that would be almost impossible. Unless, of course, the cashier behind the counter at the shop spread the virus, which is actually your fault, because you went into the shop to buy the game which led to your exposure, which led to your infection, which led to you being sick, from the game.

So no, we don’t mean Influenza.

We mean: Motion sickness which led to vomiting, or excessive amounts of gore which led to vomiting, or exhaustion from playing which led to vomiting, or the game was so bad it led to vomiting.

So, has a game ever made you sick? If so, what happened? Why? Share the name of the game too.

Last week we queried: What’s The Biggest Motivation To Buy A New Game?

The winner is: seeM.

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za
- Our Competition T&C
- We’ll randomize all entries for a winner

Money. Excitement. Fanboyism. These are three, of many, reasons why we buy new games.

Keeping it relatively simple this week: What’s your biggest motivation to buy a new game?

Essentially this is part-two from last week,The Most Intriguing Box Art Belongs To?

Obviously it’s only fair to Randomize the winners. Therefore, the winner is: TheFallen

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

We’ll randomize to find a winner.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

What’s the secret behind box art? Is it to lure you into a purchase, play on emotion, or simply just show you what the game is about? Well, it can be all three of the above and that’s why we’re wanting to know how it plays on your emotion.

Each person will obviously have their own take on intriguing therefore we’re leaving it up to you to tell us about the art, or better yet, post a picture in the comments below.

Here are two examples which might help your decision:

What’s there to really say about this? Forza 3′s art shows a supercar from an enticing angle. You know you’re going to be racing and high-speed is involved. Furthermore, it’s a hot car which attracts attention too.

A speeding car around a track would have been perfect as well, but this just grips you (read: me) with “Oh my gosh – I must.”

It’s parked waiting to be driven. Just waiting..

This is Rockstar Table Tennis. It’s a box with a Ping-Pong ball. Need any other description? There’s not much luring going on here.

But could it be due to the fact that this is a word-of-mouth; try it, buy it kind of game? Every time we talk about Rockstar Table Tennis people start giggling, however once they play it they simply fall in-love.

Not so intriguing, is it?

So, to you: The most intriguing box art belongs to?

Last week we asked you: What’s The Most Annoying Thing Non-Gamers Say?

After reading all the comments and adding all the names to the Randomizer, we’ve got a winner: Jay

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

We’ll randomize to find a winner, only because we know that everyone finds different artwork interesting.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

Most of us meet and speak to non-gamers everyday, where sometimes we hear them drop a line like “For The Win” or “n00b”. Rarely do these folk even know what it means, or where it comes from. And it’s not that it’s a sacred language, it’s just younger kids were mocked for being gamers or nerds and now other people are using their words to sound more intriguing.

I’m sure most of you have come across these non-gamer-lingo-peeps, so: What’s the most annoying thing Non-Gamers say?

If you’ve never come across anyone like this, what would you hate to hear them say?

Last week we asked you: Which Game Would You Want To Be Famous For Developing?

We took the cloth off the randomizer, added the names, and it spewed out: Roxy

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment.

And reV, we were impressed with your Chinese witchcraft game as well. Wow, that was intense.

There’s a R200 eDreams voucher available to a random commenter. Any entry related to the Question above will count as an entry into the competition. Let us know what irks you enough to punch these fools in the face. Repeatedly.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

If you’ve read our eGameFame Exclusive you’d know that there are loads of guys who come up with random ideas to create games. These games then go onto sell millions of copies, making millions of dollars.

And don’t you wish you were involved in that process? Don’t you wish you were the one to think up the game that changed the industry, or the game that made billions, or perhaps the best seller of all time?

Well, now is your chance to tell us: Which game you would have loved to have developed, or been involved in?

If you like, you can motivate why you’d want to be involved in that project — be it money, girls, or fame.

Last week we asked you: How Many Hours Per Day Do You Spend Gaming?

Like we said, we’d Randomize the comments for a winner. So, Mr. C Thesen who games around 12 hours per day — You’ve won!

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment

Remember, there’s a R200 eDreams voucher up for grabs. And don’t worry, any game counts as an entry to the draw because we’ll once again randomize the comments. So, whatever the game and whatever the reason — love, hate, jealousy, money — we want to know.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

* Hat tip to Xeno for the Question.

Since the 9th of September we’ve been gathering entries for our PlayStation Move competition. And now, we’re finally ready to announce the winner.

For the competition we asked you to fill out a few details about our site, namely: What do you like, and how we can improve. We said we’d randomize the entries to keep it fair, else people would lie in their entry. We know your type.

So, without further ado.

The winner of the PlayStation Move Starter Pack is: Karl

If your name is Karl, and you received an email from us. You’re the winner. If your name is Karl and you didn’t receive an email from us, we’re sorry for the excitement about nothing.

Finally, thanks to everyone who entered – your feedback will be enjoyed. And stay tuned for more competitions!

This prize was supplied by eDreams.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and unfortunately many of us have other obligations which take preference over gaming. For example, there’s school; varsity; work; gym; arts and craft; extra-lessons; shopping; washing dishes; folding clothes; making your bed; eating; combing your hair; painting your horse, etc. Alongside this, some of you might have other obligations, but I’m getting at the fact that we all have important things to do in our day.

So, How many hours per day do you spend gaming?

If you want to be fancy, why not add how many hours you spend per week (for the mathematically challenged) and why you’re limited to those hours. You could even tell us which hours you like to play games — between 15:00 and 17:00 or perhaps you’re more of a night person who plays between 00:00 and 04:00?

Last week we asked you: What’s The Most Scantily Clad Game You’ve Ever Played?

Like we said, we’d Randomize the correct comments for a winner. And eXplicit, you’re the winner.

Congratulations!

Here’s the comment

In order to win this week’s R200 voucher from eDreams, post a comment with the amount of hours you game. Feel free to add anything extra as we might be inclined to throw a prize your way.. If you get what we mean..

We’ll randomize the entries because we know that 1) you’ll lie to have the most hours–28 hours a day, anyone?–; and 2) to keep it as fair as possible for those who cannot game 28 hours a day.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

Note:  Sorry for being late with QOTW, but last night Internet Solutions died and due to previous commitments it was only possible to publish this now.. Ironic, hey?

This month we’re giving away a PlayStation Move starter-pack in our competition.

Entering the competition is pretty easy. All you need to do is fill out the form below, and be honest. We’ll randomize the entrants so don’t worry about writing an essay for the answer — anything will do.

We’d really like some feedback about our site. Please let us know what type of articles you’d like to read on our site — and if you’re a new visitor, how can we win you over? While we don’t require a hefty answer, please just be really specific. For example, Featured Articles about Gamers Lanning On The Moon. Or something.

Also, we’d like to know how we can make our site better. What do we need to do to make it more intriguing, user-friendly and/or exciting?

Your input means a lot to us!

The PlayStation Move Starter-Pack includes:

• Playstation Move Motion Controller
• Playstation Move Eye Camera
• Playstation Move Starter Disc

We’ve unboxed the Review PlayStation Move – if you’d like to see what it’s all about. Just so you know – the one being unboxed is not the prize. The prize will be a brand new one we’ve never touched, or seen.

You don’t need to fill out the whole block, we’re just giving you space in case you want to. There have been a few requests to increase the size of the block.

Competition closes Monday 27 September, 2010. — Closed!

And the winner is..

Things to remember:
- Our Competition T&C
- Competition courtesy of eDreams
- Note: Win vouchers in our Question of the Week competition(s).

Also, if you’re not following us on Facebook — here’s your chance. Do it!

A couple of weeks back we asked what your most overrated game was. Now, we’re asking you the continuation of that question: the most underrated game is?

Now, keep in mind that underrated doesn’t just have to mean by critics. It can also be that the game was rated highly by critics, but never became very popular or wasn’t appreciated enough. Perhaps it was a game which wasn’t marketed enough by the publishers themselves.

Last week we asked you: Which Game Should Be Killed With Fire?

After a lengthy chat between bus driver and cricket, we decided that Strega would be the winner this time round. And it’s all thanks to Gershal Bibbs and Grayham Smythe.

Congratulations!

Read the comment here.

Same as before, in order to win the R200 eDreams voucher, you’ll need to comment with enough reason as to why you think the game is underrated. Seriously, it can be any reason. The best, or most passionate/convincing/truthful answer will win.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

Let’s be honest, there are loads and loads of horrible games out there. Games which people pay good money to play, only to be disappointed.

We’ve reviewed at least one of said worthless games before, and we found that the only reason for its creation was to jump the money-makin’ wagon.

So, this week we want to know: Which game should be killed with fire, and why?

We don’t usually comment in the question – but this time we will. Prison Break: The Conspiracy — Kill it with Fire! The game was produced after the popular TV series and it was merely a way to make cash off innocent gamers who don’t know better. It’s a poor excuse for a game, and it’s horrible to play and even watch. When we had the rating system it scored a perfect 1/10. We’re not going to say much about the game here, but we’ve linked the review above.

Last week we asked you: If A Game Could Save Your Life, Which Game Would Be The Hero?

We’ve decided that man-a-tea deserves the prize. Not only will he save his own life, but he’ll also con others into bad situations. He could also quite possibly make a bit of money from his scenario. We love money.

It wasn’t about the picture. Honest.

Congratulations!

The Comment

The game that would save my life would be: Magic the gathering: duels of the planeswalkers. No one is truly a nerd until they are a MTG nerd. It requires a whole new level of nerd-dom. And i am not ashamed to admit it.

But how would it save my life? That one is easy.
I would be playing in the magic world tournament, and a bunch of mafia-types would have bet a bunch of money on me. I would have won my first game and lost the second, and take a break before the final tie-breaker in the form of match three. Then the mafia-types would threaten to kill me if I lost the final match (this would create the dramatic, life-threatening situation, most likely accompanied by tense music). I would sit down at the table and the situation would progress to the point that I had 2 creatures, my opponent had 1 creature to block with, and I only needed to attack with both my creatures to win, since he would be tapped out with no combat tricks. At this point, magic the gathering: duels of the planeswalkers would burst in with a tacky, cheap looking suit, saunter up to the table and physically stop me from attacking with my second creature. Just like it always does when I play online. It would also make a noise comparable to the sound of a thousand wheezing americans, just like the online play FORCED chat system does in MTG: DotP. Thankfully, my opponent would somehow lose his will to live after seeing me stall out in that final turn which I should have won, and would quit, preferably through the form of suicide in sheer frustration.

And that is how MTG: DotP would save my life, although admittedly it was also the cause of the situation, so it’s not a real hero. The real hero would be Sarkhan the mad, because he is mad. The end.

Just remember, it’s not about a game you hate — it’s about the game you think is really stupid, pointless, badly made, and/or horrible. The most believable answer will win the R200 eDreams voucher. And by believable, we mean — convince us that you’re right.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

Okay, that’s not really the Question — but it is very similar. The above was used for title purposes only.

The Question: If you found out that you could artificially keep yourself alive by inserting your brain into one of your favourite games — what game would it be and what character would you be?

It’s a bit of a tough question, but it’s an interesting concept.

Your answer should be honest. For example, you’d want to be able to make sure that you stay true to yourself, because we know that most of you aren’t Kratos from God of War.

Last week we asked you: The Most Overrated Game Is?

There were loads of interesting and good comments. A lot of us had feelings similar to those in the comments, but we felt the best and most truthful answer was from Strawb3rry.

Congratulations!

The Comment

The number one most overrated game (series) of recent history is no doubt “Mass Effect”. I’ve never been able to play that game for more a three or four hours. I mean come on, I’m a huge fan of sci-fi. I’ve watched every episode of Star Trek The Next Generation THREE TIMES! I’ve played every Star Wars game (on PC). Played Star Craft every year since its release up till this year.

Maybe I only like sci-fi with the word ‘Star’ in its title. But like many trekkies, I’m also an avid role-player. I know the rules to AD&D, spent 67 hours in Dragon Age: Origins, I’ve played Diablo 2 for an ungodly amount of time (with Pwn-Movie for that matter). I’ve finished Neverwinter Nights one and its expansions, Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansions TWICE. I’m unashamedly a tremendous nerd. I can unequivocally say that Mass Effect is NOT an RPG.

Sure, you play a role in a balanced combat squad, and you play the role of the squads leader, but you don’t get to make the character what you want in as precise a way, with as much divergent character options as do any of the afore mentioned games that have drained so many hours from my life.

In short Mass Effect sucks big hairy donkey balls dipped in sour cream.

The most original, and best motivated answer will win a R200 eDreams voucher. Remember, you don’t need to be the hero to get the girl voucher!

Thanks to Hannes Toerien for the question. Even though we altered it a bit, deep down inside we know that it was your idea..

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

There are so many games out there – some are unique, some are carbon-copies; some are good, some are bad. But what game do you think is the most overrated?

We’d love to talk about it in this post – but we’ll keep it for the comments instead. Each and every one of us have our own idea of an overrated game, so what’s yours?

Last week we asked you Why Do You Like Gaming?

There were loads and loads of good answers as to why y’all like gaming — but in the post we said we’d randomize it. So for those that commented with good answers, we appreciate it!

The winner for last week is SairenSA.

This week, to win the R200 eDreams voucher, you’ll need to comment with enough reason as to why you think the game is overrated. Seriously, it can be any reason. The best, or most passionate/convincing/truthful answer will win.

Oh, and just so you know – Heroes of Newerth isn’t a good answer to this question. We already know it’s overrated..

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

This has been our most popular competition, by far. And it’s only popular because the prize is a copy of StarCraft 2 and a R200 eDreams voucher.

Unfortunately there can only be one winner, and just so you know — loads of people entered the competition. So, in an attempt to stay true to you — and ourselves — we decided to take all of the names and slot them into our favourite Randomizer, similar to previous competitions.

Now, we’re happy to announce that David Harding has won the prize for August — a copy of StarCraft 2 and a R200 voucher.

Congratulations, we hope you enjoy playing against Asians with crazy skills.

This prize is courtesy of eDreams.

Everyone has their own reason as to why they like gaming, and we want to know yours.

So, why do you like gaming?

We’ll leave our personalised replies in the comment section below, in case you’re interested in what we have to say.

Last week we asked you how many of your friends game, where it seemed as if most of your groupies are gamers. With a question like that we couldn’t choose a winner, so we decided to radomise it — offering everyone who commented a fair shot at the prize.

The winner is: Neon

Congratulations!

The R200 voucher winner will be randomised.

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

We’re giving away a copy of StarCraft II and a R200 eDreams voucher.

If you’d like to know more about StarCraft II be sure to read the SixiS Hands-On, or visit our archive.

Competition closes Tuesday 17 August, 2010.

Things to remember:
- Our Competition T&C
- Competition courtesy of eDreams
- Note: Win more vouchers in our Question of the Week competition(s).

Sorry, but the competition is over! Find the winner here.

Here’s a quick idea: if you win the prize take the game for yourself and share the voucher with a friend. If you add the voucher to this purchase you’ll be able to get another copy of StarCraft II for R200 less. They’ll owe you forever! Remember, this is only a suggestion — you’re free to use the voucher on whatever you like.

Many people have friends in different social circles, and we know that not everyone is a gamer. By using our infinite knowledge on people, and what they do, we’re asking you: how many of your friends are gamers, and are they any good?

And by gamers, we mean: own a PC/Console and play on it at least twice a week.

My friends do not own consoles, and their PC knowledge is limited to Facebook. Therefore they aren’t gamers. And when they do play games, they aren’t very good. In fact, they get quite annoying. Don’t you just hate it when you’re playing a fighting game and someone spams right punch over and over again? Story of my life..

There’s a R200 eDreams voucher up for grabs, once again!

Last week we asked about 3D Gaming – Is it the way of the future?

We’re happy to announce that OneLargePrawn is the winner. We liked the picture.

Picture

The rules:

- You must comment with a valid email address else you cannot win!
- This competition is sponsored by eDreams.co.za.
- Our Competition T&C

Dear Reader,

Over the past month we’ve been relatively inactive with regards to news and reviews. From the start of the World Cup until now we’ve been flooded with soccer-hooliganism.

This being said, we’ve had major problems finding time to update with news as we’ve always been out and about trying to watch as many games as possible — after all, the local Fifa Cup will only happen once in our life time.

We’re using this space to apologize to each and every one of you for our fail over the past month, and especially the last week.

Once the World Cup Final is over we’ll be back, updating as much as possible.

Hope you forgive us, and I hope you’ll stick around to read what we have to say.

Yours Sincerely,
– eGamer Editorial