5 Years ago, the Xbox 360 was born. The console was released on November 22, 2005 in the US and Canada; December 2, 2005 in Europe; and December 10, 2005 in Japan. We got it locally nearly a year later – but we actually got it, unlike the previous Xbox. It’s gone on to sell 44.6 million units globally, …
Some very interesting news and information has come to light thanks to Microsoft’s Frank O’Connor who sat on a a panel at the Future of Television East Conference. O’Connor seems to be very enthusiastic and motivated to get Halo onto as many screens as possible. He commented on the previous Halo movie project with Peter Jackson, saying that the movie …
Thanks to the insanity that stems from the United States’ Black Friday, some colossal discounts are hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace. How good are the deals, well how about ‘Splosion Man for 160 MS points or Trials HD (usually 1200) for only 400? The Black Friday deals will run from Tuesday, November 23 all the way through to Monday, November …
kalahari.net has been kind enough to supply me the top 20 gaming titles ranked by sales for 2010 calendar year and I have to say I am massively surprised by some of the results. One thing that wasn’t surprising is that Starcraft 2 was a huge success locally and is currently the top selling gaming title across all platforms. Last …
Kinect was officially launched two weeks ago and is already proving to be pretty popular with the casual market. Not only that but you can expect Kinect bundles to grace many a Christmas tree come December. So how casual friendly is the Kinect exactly? Well according to this Joyride video that was uploaded to YouTube, it’s so easy to play …
By Peter Carmody The morbidly fascinating world of Saw returns with yet another addition to its gore-porn franchise. This sequel to Saw: the video game was released little over a year from its predecessor and was most likely meant to cash in on Halloween fever for the second year in a row, and while the joint effort between developers Zombie …
Okreylos has posted a follow up video with regards to using Multiple Kinects for Video Capture. Now for those of you who are out of the loop, Geoff ran and article earlier this week detailing how the Kinect can be used for some pretty awesome motion capture using the driver released last week for pc. This time around he follows …
UPDATED: We have been contacted by the owner of the ps3.co.za domain who insists that we have gotten the story all wrong. We have posted up additional info at the bottom of the article. One of our local gamers (@Psyndrome) stumbled onto something and posted it up on Twitter last night that we found pretty damn hilarious, sneaky and interesting… …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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