While we are following up about the lack of Arcade and DLC content on our newly supported Xbox Live marketplace I also asked why there aren’t any Indie Games listed. Unfortunately the answer is simply that the Indie Game channel is not supported in South Africa and Xbox are currently investigating bringing these to the country. It also looks like …

Yesterday, Microsoft hosted an event to celebrate the launch of both the new Kinect motion controller for Xbox 360 as well as the official arrival of Xbox Live in South Africa. Being the fine, upstanding and not to mention completely professional chaps that we are (they promised free food), we were there to cover the whole event and stayed until …

We have breaking news in, for those who are fighting over the idea of migrating to a South African Xbox Live account. After some testing in an Xbox Live laboratory (like, seriously) we can confirm that Xbox Live South African accounts do in fact accept UK MS Points vouchers as well as Xbox Live Gold Memberships like the ones found …

[Update: We have added the steps you need to take to migrate your account over] This post marks the exact moment that Xbox Live is officially available in South Africa. It’s just hit midnight and as announced at the Xbox Live / Kinect Launch event, the services are now officially available to Xbox 360 owners. Owners who have Xbox 360’s …

By now you should all be well aware that Microsoft is finally bringing Xbox Live to South Africa. Next week Wednesday (November 10th) will see the official launch of the Xbox 360 online service in our country. The announcement was met with vociferous approval by our local Xbox 360 scene. But naturally, because most gamers seem to be shackled to …

I logged into my inbox this morning and saw a little message from Gameservers.com, which had a subject line of “GameServers.com – South Africa has Call of Duty Black Ops”. Cast your minds back and you’ll remember we mentioned the exclusivity deal between Activision and Gameservers.com, which means all dedicated servers for COD: Black Ops need to be rented through …

There is a new digital magazine on the block and one of the ideas that they are bringing to the table is to setup 1-v-1 games in what they are calling The Gamer Challenge. The idea’s pretty cool and anything that improves the local gaming community is always a winning idea in my book. This week we get to the …

GameState, our local online gaming video show, has started putting together a week in review post where we get told the most important news over the last week in 2 minutes. So to start this week off let’s see what made the host, Grant Hinds, sit up and take notice last week. Last Updated: October 25, 2010