The guys at Joystiq miraculously managed to get a few moment to speak with Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of the massively popular and respected Gran Turismo series. The bad news is that they reported the following: “According to the Polyphony Digital boss, his studio is focusing a majority of its efforts on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. In fact, he confirmed …

A site called World Gaming News has posted up this image and a whole bunch of details about the Gears 2 Collectors Ed. So what’s inside lets take a look. Since the details are pretty straightforward, I am going to paste them from the WGN article straight, so here they are: Sorry, you are going to have to take the …

Well this is some great news isn't it! It looks like the possibility of Xbox Live coming to South Africa is become better and better. ITweb.co.za reports that "Xbox product manager John Press is confident Microsoft would greenlight an Xbox Live expansion into the country." Press says that there are already 4000 Xbox live users in SA (sshhhhhhh* thats us) and he says that they hope to attract more. He also goes on to say that: “The pressing question is always ‘what is Xbox Live and why don't we have it?'” He explains that Microsoft had not formerly launched its online gaming service in SA simply because the country is not the “only emerging market out there”. “Yet we are working closely with the people in charge and we want to convince Microsoft that when Xbox Live is launched in SA, they will have a 100% adequate service.” After watching the E3 conference from Microsoft, I realised that with their new turn to a more casual market, we would be seeing a truckload of marketing coming from them from now till the December holidays. I do feel like this could be one of the steps that they are going to be taking worldwide. Get the smaller markets as well and then get all the more casual folks to buy into all of their new features. That can't be done without Xbox Live. Well, let's see what happens.

By Philip Dunkley I have no need to rub people’s noses into anything at anytime, but working in this industry has some of the hardest moments you could imagine. On the flip side, it also has some of the coolest perks ever, like getting a chance to preview some of the coolest games on the planet. This week, thanks to …

GameRush.com posted an article up about Alan Wakes absence at E3 and they have really upped my concern about this game again. A while back I wrote an article that confirmed that Alan Wake was still in production and hasn't been canned. There was then another article that stated that we would in fact be seeing Alan Wake at E3 this year. Alas, it was nowhere to be seen. Should we be getting worried? I really hope not.

The last few weeks have been particularly straining with the amount of content, competition and reviews to get out, especially when Nick decides to go and get married, I go on a boy’s farewell weekend (For a friend off to Canada), and Nick also timely decides to go on Honeymoon (Just so thoughtless). It’s amazing how you get to rely …

I am very very skeptical that MAG is going to pull it off to be honest, BUT if it does it is going to revolutionise online multi-player gaming in the industry. These trailers make this game look absolutely fantastic and if it wasn’t for the plan to allow 256 simultaneous players I would be much more excited about it. One …

We haven’t seen much about Fracture over the past few months and unfortunately that normally means the game doesn’t end up being as good as we all hoped. To jog your memory, Fracture was that game were you could mould the terrain to create mountains or holes to change the battlefield. At E3 this year they gave us some more …