As many of you already know from yesterday’s post, Blizzard has confirmed that StarCraft 2 won’t be supporting a Local Area Network (LAN). So this information had been spreading across the web like wildfire and as a result in just a day, 2500 gamers have already signed a petition asking Blizzard to reconsider including a network multiplayer for StarCraft 2. …

By now you are all aware of the price drops that are coming or have already arrived for the Xbox 360 and PS3. This current generation has a been a fight for second place between Sony and Microsoft as Nintendo have been happily leading the way in terms of sales for the entire time, selling mountains of Wii’s to families …

MI Digital, the much maligned local distributor of Microsoft’s Xbox 360, seems to have shut its doors for good – Leaving the country without a distribution channel for the console, its accessories, and first-party titles; Fan favourite games such as Gears of War, Fable II and Halo 3. Last Updated: June 30, 2009

I love analysts – professional guessers, if you like. They sift through graphs, sales data, industry goings-on , poring over every minute detail – and then make stuff up. Back in primary school, we called such people “liars,” but now that we’re all grown up they have a much nicer designation. My own ranting aside, analyst reports are always interesting …

The battle between Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5 is only getting started, and the internet has been full of discussions and screenshot comparisons, with fans all trying to prove that their chosen game looks the best. All of this was mostly sparked by the fact that at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference, Turn 10 were very quick to boast …

I am a huge Harry Potter fan and am really looking forward to the new movie which is arriving at a cinema near you next month. However it has to be said that the previous Harry Potter games haven’t lived up to the movies hype or my personal high expectations, it’s not that they were really bad but I just …

Whilst sipping my coffee and eating my cucumber sandwiches (with the crusts cut off, of course) I came across a post by MooDy on the local Xbox 360 forums. It details what, according to the accompanying press release, is the country’s first ever conviction of a video game pirate. The brigand in question, one Muhammed Baber, ran “Game Zone,” a …

You may recall that around about a year ago, I used to put together a weekly feature called Casting Call. In the Casting Calls, I set out to pick popular videogames that had not yet been made into movies, and then take a crack at looking at which actors/actresses could fill the roles of the different characters in the movie. …