We have breaking news in, for those who are fighting over the idea of migrating to a South African Xbox Live account. After some testing in an Xbox Live laboratory (like, seriously) we can confirm that Xbox Live South African accounts do in fact accept UK MS Points vouchers as well as Xbox Live Gold Memberships like the ones found …
[Update: We have added the steps you need to take to migrate your account over] This post marks the exact moment that Xbox Live is officially available in South Africa. It’s just hit midnight and as announced at the Xbox Live / Kinect Launch event, the services are now officially available to Xbox 360 owners. Owners who have Xbox 360’s …
DICE will be releasing VIP Map Pack 7, a brand new map pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The map pack takes the two favourite maps from the original Bad Company, as picked by the community and will be giving them the full 2.0 overhaul as well as two new maps that come from the BC2 singleplayer campaign . The …
Ninja Theory’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a good game. Nick liked it a lot, and the Xbox 360 version has a Metacritic score of 82%. It seems, however, that positive press reviews do not always equate into sales targets. The game’s publisher, Namco Bandai, had hoped to shift 1 million units during the first month of release. The …
The Need for Speed franchise has thankfully been granted a Criterion-fueled return to form and is promising to bring back the glory days of cop chases and exotic cars rather than Hondas with flame stickers on them. The first reviews are hitting the net and the game has so far been rated by IGN, Eurogamer, CVG and more. So then, …
I stumbled across this cute video earlier today of possible Sackboy death situations. These were some of the different options offered to Media Molecule before they settled on the distinctive puff of smoke look. None of these are particularly violent but I do love the last one where he lands on his head.. they should have kept that one. Last …
A future suburb called Arcosur in northeast Spain is under construction at the moment. The nice thing about a new suburb is that you get to name its streets, and the future residents of Arcosur put up an online voting system to see what names they should go with. There are 58 roads planned for the suburb. According to the …
One of the least publicised features of Call of Duty Black Ops is that it has full support for stereoscopic 3D – yeah, the sort that requires those incredibly expensive new TV’s. Sony have been pretty heavily pushing the fact that their console does 3D, while Microsoft have not. Both though, are capable of running Black Ops with that extra …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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