The local gaming community needs your help soldier! Yesterday we were contacted by an admin of a South African Steam community group (they also have a Facebook group) requesting our assistance in helping their cause. As we are always keen to fight the good fight, we were happy to do our bit, and now it’s your turn. If you remember …
Yes, you read correctly, Capcom expects MvC 3 to usurp the legendary Street Fighter’s spot on the sales charts. Chatting to EventHubs, Capcom’s vice-president of strategic planning and business development (thats one long business card) Christian Svensson stated that it was his “expectation” that the cross-universe over-the-top fighting game will do better. Capcom plan to make sure of that via …
Ladies and gentlemen, after nearly a year of silence, we are proud to bring you a special edition of the Lazygamer Podcast! Marc, Danny and Myself are back for a super-awesome 2010 recap episode where we talk about what games caught our attention this year as well as some thoughts and debates on the rAge 2010 gaming expo. We may …
So yesterday we posted a community news piece on how Goldman Sachs had dropped their rating of Microsoft and had singled out the Entertainment division which houses the Xbox as an example of a division that Microsoft should offload. However today Steve Ballmer has been chatting to the London School of Economics about cloud computing and has raised the Xbox …
If you recall, our commander in chief reported that Gears of War 3 was delayed by five months. The reason given was for marketing. The worst possible reason for a delay in a game, since its so intangible. At the recent Eurogamer expo, the Gears of War 3 campaign wasn’t on show to the public. According to a Microsoft spokesman, …
I have to admit I didn’t see this one coming at all. In the dead of night (for us) a select group of journalists were secreted into Treyarch’s Los Angeles studio to be shown a yet to be announced feature in the upcoming Black Ops. The feature that caught everyone off guard was that Black Ops will be released in …
God bless Jack Thompson, in a world full of loonies he manages to reign supreme when it comes to the gaming community and no matter how many times he is proven wrong or disbarred he just keeps coming back for more. This time he has decided to keep it short and sweet and has told ripten.com the following when asked …
Alright local, South African gamer: whenever you feel slightly inclined to moan about our government, spare a thought for countries like Australia and Germany, which are governed by overtly sensitive nannies who feel it their duty to protect the populace from the horrors of videogames. At least our government is too busy worrying about lining their own pockets or gagging …
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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