Adrenaline Vault A useful enough gaming site, with the usual mix of news, downloads, cheats and patches. Covers both PC games and consoles. A fantastic idea - this site reviews games from the parents' perspective, letting you know just how much blood, guts and sex your kids are being exposed to.
Reviews are discriminating, online gaming is simple and the communities are busy.
There's also the opportunity to shop. The spiritual home of spotty adolescents, GameSpot covers everything related to console and PC gaming, and offers software and hardware reviews as well as solutions to games. A pretty successful attempt to create a site for the twenty-something gamer but it can't quite compete with the sheer size of GameSpot. Happy Puppy One of the biggest games sites, with an independent voice, if a formulaic design. Covers all major platforms.