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Sparkly Vampires Make Me Want to Gouge My Eyes Out

By Geoffrey Tim
October 1, 2009
in :  Gaming
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I love vampires. I love the lore, the mythology, their pointy teeth and the resultant buckets of blood. It should come as no surprise then, that I cannot stand Twilight – and its emo, vegetarian, glittery suckfest “vampires” Spare a thought for my gag reflex when this boxart (after the jump) arrived in my mailbox. Unfortunately, some smart-arse at Konami …

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The Lazygamer Podcast – Episode 19.5: The Pre-Rage Show

By Nick De Bruyne
October 1, 2009
in :  Entertainment, Gaming
1

It’s the pre-rAge 2009 podcast which means that Danny, Marc and myself have a chat about what excites us about this years rAge as well as what we can all expect to see when we get there. Also check out an in-depth chat about the Forza 3 demo as well as an awesome PC games that lets you be lazy …

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New Wii Update Bricking consoles

By Geoffrey Tim
October 1, 2009
in :  Gaming
Comments Off on New Wii Update Bricking consoles

File this one under “Oops!” Nintendo have released a new firmware update for the Wii – System Menu 4.2 – and included in its payload is some code that not only renders homebrew inoperable, it’s actively deletes it from the system. This is yet another feeble attempt by Nintendo to prevent users from running legitimate hombrew – like the DVDX …

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Seriously Huge 2009 Pre-Rage Round-Up – Babes, Games, Developers, Idols and More

By Nick De Bruyne
October 1, 2009
in :  Gaming
2

Rage 2009 kicks off this Friday and will be running through till Sunday so we though we would give you all a little bit of a peak as to what you may or may not see at the show this year. Rage is looking like it’s going to be pretty amazing this year and I have all the information to …

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Local Wii Price Cut Announced

By Gavin Mannion
September 28, 2009
in :  Gaming
2

In some great news for locals Core have announced that we will be receiving a massive Wii price cut on the 2nd of October bringing the local Wii price down to R2 499 or R1 000 less than it is now. This now makes gaming in South Africa just that much more affordable with the PS3 Slim floating around for …

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Gaming

Possibly no Wii price cut for us

By Gavin Mannion
September 24, 2009
in :  Gaming
3

News out this morning is pointing more towards a bundled offering for PAL territories instead of a US styled price cut. According to Eurogamers mole we will be looking at getting a bundle of Wii Console Wii Sports Wii Sports Resort * Wii Motion Plus * Nunchuck for the same price that we have currently been paying for everything without …

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New Super Mario Bros gets a PAL release date

By Gavin Mannion
September 23, 2009
in :  Gaming
Comments Off on New Super Mario Bros gets a PAL release date

For anyone who was hoping that the Wii’s sales would drop this silly season I have some bad news for you. For the rest of you I have some great news. Nintendo have announced that their cult hit New Super Mario Bros will be released in PAL areas on the 27th of November just in time for the huge Christmas …

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More proof of a Wii price drop

By Gavin Mannion
September 18, 2009
in :  Gaming
2

The above heavily blurred image has apparently been taken from a Target catalogue in the good ‘ol US of A. And while it does raise the question as to why all these leaked images are so damn blurry it also helps to confirm that we will in fact be getting a Wii price cut towards the end of next week. …

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