[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 …

Yesterday we posted a piece on how the new Xbox Dashboard update had shuffled some content around. Amongst the bits that were moved was the Xbox Live Indie Games marketplace, which Microsoft added to a new Speciality Shops section. Some Indie devs were angered by the adjustment claiming that their content had been relegated to some obscure side of the Dashboard, …

Yesterday, the annual price of Xbox Live increased from $49.99 to $59.99 in the US. It’s not really much of an increase – that extra $10 equates to  about 83c US or R5.80 per month, but it’s still an increase in world where the competitor’s online platform is free. That considered, how do they justify the increase? It’s all about …

Oh dear, there’s just no pleasing everybody is there? Yesterday Microsoft dropped the Fall (whatever, it’s Spring here) Xbox 360 dashboard update. It made things look all shiny and clean and new. It also looked as if my avatar had been stuck on a medieval stretching rack for an hour or two. Anyway, the update did more than mere cosmetic …

I really loved Enslaved. Sure, as a videogame it fell short in a few key areas, but as a story with great, interesting characters and a wonderful setting, it managed to hold a special place in my heart. Enslaved is also not the longest game in the world, but thanks to a new DLC pack that’s on the way, it …

It seems as though there was a rumour flying around the internet yesterday that the new and improved Xbox 360 dashboard update was about to drop. As we all know by now, that rumour was a big, fat load of Buuwwll-Sheeeuuuut. Some light was shed on the situation however, as one of Microsoft’s Xbox Live Editors Daniel Maher apologised for …

Well, in a manner of speaking. Phil Spencer (VP of Microsoft Game Studios) has said that the company views Kinect being “as core as Xbox Live” for the Xbox 360. In the future, he added, core gamers can expect to see Kinect being utilised across all genres of games on the Microsoft console. The Xbox Live analogy is a useful …