Here are a few web sites I’d like to recommend:
- Eurogamer - My favourite video games news and reviews website.
- GameFAQs - Hints, tips, full walkthroughs, and cheats too if you are that way inclined for every video game ever released. Well, for a lot of them anyway.
- GamerWiki - A video game encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to. It currently lists over 18,000 games.
- Hattrick - Free online football management game.
- iSketch - Online Pictionary!
- Joypod Podcast - Home of the totally bonkers and painfully funny games podcast by Elmo and Michael from www.rllmukforum.com.
- Microsoft Points Converter - Where you can find out the cost of a 400 point XBLA game, or 150 picture pack in real monetary terms.
- My Boring Ass Life - The blog of writer/director Kevin Smith of Clerks fame.
- PortableApps.com - A free suite of programs such as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and GIMP configured to run with install from a remove storage device such as a flash drive.
- SpeedTest.net - How fast is your internet connection?
- Tronix - Excellent supplier of NTSC video games based in New York.
- ugvm - Home of the uk.games.video.misc video games PDF fanzine.
- Video Games Plus - Another highly recommended overseas supplier of video games, this time based in Canada. Exceptional service and parcels are marked to be as customs friendly as possible.
- Video Games Plus News Blog - News about items listed at the above site such as prices cuts, special offers and which titles are region-free.
- Virtual Console Archive - A reviews database for Virtual Console games on the Nintendo Wii.
- WiiTag - Xbox 360 style gamercard creation for Wii users.