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On Xbox Live Region Locking

By Geoffrey Tim
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
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Some of you using UK or US Xbox live accounts were horrified to discover that even though south Africa is now an officially recognised region, there still appears to be region locking of sorts. this has become especially apparent for purchasers of the Call of Duty : Black Ops Hardened and Prestige editions, which feature a token to download extra …

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Black Ops Hardened Edition so NOT for women

By Miklós Szecsei
November 10, 2010
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10

And that’s not because it’s called “Hardened Edition” or because we’re being totally sexist or anything. It’s because Activision is being totally sexist, or totally stupid; take your pick. Although many would argue that those two adjectives are not mutually exclusive. You would have thought that a game release as MASSIVE as Black Ops’ would have been orchestrated down to …

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Kinect Available in Stores

By Geoffrey Tim
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
26

In all the excitement for the local launch of Xbox Live, another piece of Microsoft’s entertainment pie seems to have gone a little unnoticed. Yes, that would be Kinect, Microsoft’s revolutionary controller-free motion-sensing peripheral. It’s in stores right now, for the somewhat unreasonable R1999 – or the much more reasonable R4299 when bundled with a brand new 250 Gb Xbox …

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Why the Local Xbox Marketplace is Empty

By Geoffrey Tim
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
40

Today is the first day that Xbox Live is officially available from South Africa. The migration process has been pretty smooth for most – except for the jarring realisation that beyond a handful of arcade titles and add-ons, the ZA store is pretty barren. Yesterday, we had a brief chat with Head of Product Marketing for Xbox Live in the …

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Heavy Rain deleted scenes video – Spoiler heavy

By Gavin Mannion
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
0

Apparently Quantic Dreams posted a bunch of behind the scenes footage onto the PSN last week for Heavy Rain fans to watch if they wanted to see some of the scenes that never made it into the final title. Unfortunately that is now offline but Joystiq were able to use their AOL charged super powers to get the scenes into …

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No Indie Games for new Xbox Live members

By Gavin Mannion
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
12

While we are following up about the lack of Arcade and DLC content on our newly supported Xbox Live marketplace I also asked why there aren’t any Indie Games listed. Unfortunately the answer is simply that the Indie Game channel is not supported in South Africa and Xbox are currently investigating bringing these to the country. It also looks like …

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Feature: We Cover The Xbox Live SA / Kinect Launch, Dress As Princesses And Get Saved By A COD: Black Ops Jeep

By Nick De Bruyne
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
8

Yesterday, Microsoft hosted an event to celebrate the launch of both the new Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360 as well as the official arrival of Xbox Live in South Africa. Being the fine, upstanding and not to mention completely professional chaps that we are (they promised free food), we were there to cover the whole event and stayed until …

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GT5 Intro Video… this isn’t making it onto any top 10 lists

By Gavin Mannion
November 10, 2010
in :  Gaming
59

We’re seeing enough packshots and video’s of GT5 in the wild to now know that the game is done, in retailers and just waiting for the rest of the distribution line to catch up before going on sale. I have asked our local reps for more information but there isn’t any at the moment, it’s all stop until Sony tells …

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