I have a house full of crappy plastic peripherals, something I pretty much blame Nintendo for. As demonstrated by games like Tony Hawk Ride and the perpetual onslaught of rhythm games, peripheral based gaming is hot business right now. Ea it seems, is keen to jump on the bandwagon, as they signed deals with multiple accessory providers – Sakar, Sunflex …
Zaps Online recently launched their New! Improved! online portal and to go with that they giving away some pretty stellar gaming goodies. This month, the prize is a SAPPHIRE Vapor-X HD5750 1GB GDDR5 PCIE Graphics card, based on the Radeon 5000 series. A prize that sweet means the competition must be pretty difficult or restrictive, right? Well, No. Last Updated: …
It’s the first real Friday of the new year (last Friday was just a painful blur) and it’s time to look at the local Xbox Live charts again. No major surprises here except for a noticeable plummet by World at War and still no Left 4 Dead 2 in the top 10. Last Updated: January 8, 2010
Heavy Rain is a good enough looking game to get a story out of a trailer anyday but today’s trailer is twice as good because of the absolutely awesome sunglasses the FBI Agent (Norman Jayden). If only things like this were real as he uses the sunglasses to inspect a piece of trash, it then reads the DNA from the …
Christmas has come and gone and now the retailers needs to offload the stock that you didn’t buy in that last minute shopping panic. There are a few good ones with week with 1000 GSP going for a mere R129 in Avatar the Burning Earth and a dancing game for the Xbox 360 with mat for only R177. Last Updated: …
Microsoft has confirmed that the main control system for Natal has been changed from the original hardware solution to a software emulation instead. This is mainly being done to drop manufacturing costs and has the unfortunate side effect of it being much harder to now enable older games to work with the Natal. Not that I would want to play …
If you were wondering what happened to the 2009 Lazygamer awards then don’t worry you didn’t miss them they are still on their way. I could say that we didn’t want to be influenced by the last minute contenders in November and December but in reality we are called Lazygamer for a reason and drinking beer and enjoying our holiday …
This is one of those baseless rumours that is just so insane it may even be true. Apparently an anonymous source has been speaking to VG247 and has confirmed that Infinity Ward will not be developing Modern Warfare 3 as they will be working on a new super secret title that will blow us away. Modern Warfare 3 which is …
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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