While the original DiRT from Codemasters barely mentioned Colin McRae's name that much and even had extreme sports athlete and rally driver, Travis Pastrana doing all the in-game voice, Codemasters have decided to keep his name a part of the franchise despite his tragic death in a helicopter crash last year. This was made known when Codemasters announced the upcoming release of Colin McRae: DiRT 2. Gavin Raeburn, producer of DiRT 2 had the following to say: "The decision was made jointly between Codemasters and the McRae family. His ventures into events such as the X-Games, Dakar Rally and the Race of Champions have inspired us to look at events covering the extremes of off-road motorsport. This is where we're taking the series with DiRT 2 and Colin will play a part in that. DiRT 2 will be a great tribute, and we'll be revealing more about this over the coming months."" While they are referring to the game as a tribute, I can't say that I don't feel as if they are abusing his name a little here. I'm not saying that they are purposefully using his death as a major selling point, however they are obviously aware of the extra attention it will receive if the game is marketed as a "tribute". The first DiRT was received fairly well from gamers, although many (including myself) did not like the non-sensical magical driving physics that allowed rally cars to take hairpins at 180km/h as long as you let off of the accelerator. Gavin Raeburn also comments that DiRT 2 will concentrate on "the extremes of off-road motorsport". I hope that they spend enough time polishing the physics before trying to add in some sort of 4x4 lawnmower racing series to the mix, although that would kinda rock.

  One more day until the weekend, well two if you count the fact that this one only just started but it’s exciting anyway. So this week Yahtzee takes on Fallout 3 and you just know he isn’t going to love it don’t you. Last Updated: November 20, 2008

It’s arrived and has now been downloaded by millions of people all over the world and the servers have stood up to the initial strain and everything has kept on ticking over which must make the Engineers in Redmond ecstatic. However it’s not all perfect and along with some freezing issues a new nemesis has raised it’s ugly head. Last …

Capcom has announced that they will have a new branded company storefront coming to the New Xbox Experience today, and according to Joystiq they may have slipped up a bit when it comes to a certain screenshot they released that shows the release date for Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix. The image in question shown above, clearly states …

Not that this story is completely relevant to us here in SA but I do think it’s an interesting one. Joystiq is reporting that Netflix streaming won’t have quite as many films available as may have been planned. Its seems a number of films are now no longer available to be streamed on the Xbox 360, including both Ghostbusters and …

The Wii may still be outselling the other consoles every month but one department it’s never had the upper hand in is online gaming. There is no good argument for why friend codes were a good idea at all… lets just be honest here. Exchanging 12 digit codes in order to play with people is no where near the ease …

Just a quick update, the NXE is officially up and runnning. I turned on the console at around 12:10 and it was downloaded and installed by around 12:20 (on a 4mb line) so the whole process was fairly quicker than I initially thought it was going to be, although I can see download times increasing when a lot of people get home. Creating the Avatar was pretty simple and the length you take all depends on how fussy you are going to be with your settings. I have just installed Gears of War 2 to my HDD and it looks like the install took around about 10 minutes or so. So there you have it, it's up and you can get it as soon as you get home. If you have any questions you can pop them into the comments and I will try and answer them for you.

While a lot of us are still hurting from the sting of not receiving the map pack codes in South Africa, a few images have popped up on Flickr that show someone playing Gears of War 2 on a never-before-seen multiplayer map. The new map looks to be some sort of take on the whole sunken-city idea and could be one of many that are already in the works as DLC. Once again, there is no way to tell if us South Africans will even have any access to them, so maybe we shouldn't get our hopes up. Pics after the jump. [Thanks to Poddle for the tip] You check the full gallery by clicking here.