It’s time again for the top 5 stories of the last week and what a week it has been…. What with the spring dashboard update, the petition for Xbox live in SA and the large Crackdown update…. Thanks again to Amatomu.com for it’s stats that help me put this list together in 2 seconds… 4. PS3 Review by ScottySo this …

Ninty.co.za the local Nintendo new site has a post this morning about the latest Nintendo Wii rumours… Basically it has now been reported that the Wii is coming to SA before Rage and will sell for R2500. It won’t be sold by Nu Metro or Mustek and apart from that we don’t know much else…  Follow the link to see the few details …

TXL – The Xbox Lounge is receiving an extreme makeover… Due to South Africa’s lack of Xbox live finding local games to play has always been a problem. If we utilise the standard Xbox live functionality we generally end up in a laggy game with a bunch of foreigners. Which in turn makes the game virtually impossible to win or …

So the biggest three gaming things this week all seem to be related to the Xbox 360… There where a smattering of bad news PS3 stories and one or two little Wii events but generally this was the week for the Xbox 360… By far the most important thing that happend this week in relation to SA gaming was the Xbox …

So have you ever wondered how certain people out there have been racking up their gamerscores amazingly fast and you just thought they had to much time on their hands to play games… Well most of the time you are right but there is a seedier side to these achievements… Some people have been sharing their save files over the Internet. What …

In yet another blow to PS3 owners THQ has stated that they have scrapped Saints Row for the PS3… This after it was meant to be released soon… Nice. So why have they done this? Basically because they don’t think there is a large enough install base to warrant the cost of the game development. Where have we heard that before? Whats …

Well here is a new take on the opportunity for folding@home on the Xbox 360.  It is widely accepted that the PS3’s cell processor is much better at crunching the required data for folding than the 360’s and that it the main reason for it not appearing on the 360. They don’t like losing.. However over at the Inquirer they …

It’s nice to see other developers messing around instead of working… Over at Epic one of the developers , who is remaining nameless,  set about hacking a Gears of War level to include some mounds and holes and things to make a golf course. He then promptly gave Marcus and I am sure Dom a couple of golf clubs and walla… …