South African retailers have broken the street date for Heavy Rain. Easily one of the most anticipated titles of 2010, Heavy Rain is now available in many stores around the country, proving once more that local retailers still don’t even understand the concept of a street date. Let me tell you a quick story. On Friday, my wife – a …

According to a post on the Yellow Dog Linux forums, a new firmware update in the works at Sony will remove the “OtherOS” feature from older PS3 models.Owen Stampflee, one of the distributions developers said on the board that : “I’ve caught a rumor from a reputable source that the next firmware update for old PS3s will remove the OtherOS …

Everyone has that little thing that just gets on their nerves. For Lazygamer, it’s console installs, but me?- I hate it when developers are too useless to release HD resolution games on an HD console. It happens here and there but when it happens to a game that’s coming from a top-notch development team, I feel no pity. Take Halo …

Last year, around about the time that Killzone 2 hit the world, I posted an article titled Killzone 2: The Best Thing To Happen To The Xbox 360 . While the title confused people at first, it made sense once you read it and my point was made. Many people agreed with me and I even had the honour of …

EA have announced that they will be closing down even more of their online servers. Almost all of the games having their servers closed down are pretty old ones that no one is really playing, well I assume that that's why is closing them. The list includes a bunch of titles such as the Godfather for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as Mercenaries 2 for PC, Lord of the Rings: Conquest for Xbox 360 and PS3 as well as Army of Two in Asia and for PS3 only. You can see all of them here . I guess that this all makes a lot of sense, you can't keep running these servers forever, and especially not if there are only a handful of people ever using them. When are Microsoft and Activision going to be shutting down the servers for Halo 3 and Modern Warfare 2? I hear that nobody plays those games anymore.

The PS3 has been doing exceptionally well of late. After a much needed price drop the once ailing console has gained incredible momentum. Its exclusive games  – including one of them pretty much unanimously winning 2009’s Game of the Year – have shown the console’s power, and multiplatform games are getting closer and closer to being at parity with, and …

Final Fantasy XIII is the biggest Playstation game to become multi-platform and as such there is a lot of interest about whether or not the Xbox 360 version will match or better it graphically. The PS3 version was released late last year in Japan and the Xbox 360 version has now just been completed. The first website out the gates …

Hear ye! Hear Ye! Were you planning to zip your Assegai against your mates across Vineta K this evening? Were you intent on a a little Uncharted 2 multiplayer? Were you keen on kicking the ass of the opposing Helghast squad? Well it may have to wait a bit – the PSN blog has confirmed that the PSN will be …