Last year when Modern Warfare 2 broke all records by selling a mind-blowing 4.7 million copies worth $310,000,000 US Dollars we all thought that the record would stay unbeaten for quite a long time. Well, it didn’t. According to Activisions day 1 sales estimates, Call of Duty: Black Ops opened on its first day with a ludicrous 5.6 Million units …
[Update: The story has been updated with an official comment from Microsoft SA’s product and marketing manager] Earlier today, the official Twitter account for Microsoft South Africa sent out a tweet claiming that “Almost 99% of local stores sold out of Kinect in the first day!”. That’s a pretty darn impressive achievement indeed, or at least it would be if …
There’s a nice story about Kinect doing the rounds this morning, what really surprised me though is that I found it via a tweet from Major Nelson and the first line of the article states “There’s almost nothing I’ve seen before I picked up Kinect that really interested me. Many of the games looked OK, and the ones I played …
We stopped posting up comparison articles between the 360 and PS3 once they pretty much reached parity. In general cross platform titles look fantastic on both platforms and the differences are really not worth making any fuss about. However Sony have been evangelising their 3D technology for quite some time now, so much so that a large portion of the …
Hey, you know that gaming console that Microsoft makes? Well, there’s a lot of technology inside those Xbox 360s that other companies hold the rights to. That means in order to manufacture the Xbox 360 consoles, Microsoft has to pay royalty fees to those different companies. One such company is Motorola. Motorola is responsible for the technology behind the Xbox …
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 …
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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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