Photos from the Johannesburg 27dinner

Friday, November 27th, 2009

On Wednesday night a bunch of geeks, nerds and wannabe geeks packed into the upstairs section of Primi Piatti in The Design Quarter Fourways for the final 27dinner of 2009. This time there were no formal talks just lots of socialising and some really awesome grub. It also proved ...

Comztek is the new Xbox distributor for SA

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

It was sad to see Mi Digital got through liquidation however its great that Comztek has been appointed the official distributor for South Africa. Comztek has been distributing most, if not all, Microsoft hardware for the last couple of years. Not sure if I like that they are exclusive as ...

South African pricing for Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and DJ Hero announced

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Megarom, the South African distributor for the Guitar/Band and DJ Hero series of games has just announced the pricing. I’m keen to try my hand on DJ Hero especially with the special controller designed for the purpose. My only complaint with all these music games is that you end ...

Xbox 360 Elite price drop in South Africa

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

In true Microsoft reactive form, Microsoft South Africa have announced a very significant price drop on the Xbox 360 Elite console featuring a 120GB hard drive. It has been reported in the US that Elite consoles no longer include the HDMI cable, I’m checking with Microsoft South Africa regarding this. ...

Guitar Hero & Rock Band 2 – I’m addicted

Friday, May 15th, 2009

When I bought Guitar Hero 2 a few years back I must say the game didn’t get much play time in my Xbox 360 console, I just figured that I was clueless and lacked the required coordination to succeed at playing a plastic guitar. Then last year after seeing ...

New Xbox 360 bundle with Burnout Paradise and Trivial Pursuit

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Microsoft South Africa has just announced a new Xbox 360 console bundle that ships with the popular racing title Burnout Paradise as well as a well-known board game Trivial Pursuit. The official press release follows: Johannesburg – 25th March, 2009 - Microsoft today announces a ...

Ninja Blade will ship to South Africa in April

Friday, February 27th, 2009

I can’t say I’m a fan of the Armored Core series of games, maybe because I’ve never played them, but FromSoftware have produced an awesome game called Chromehounds. Unfortunately it wasn’t well received by the market, but it remains an awesome game to play as team. Those who know ...

Microsoft SA says no increase for Xbox 360 game prices

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Late in 2008 the word on the street indicated that first and third party Xbox 360 game titles distributed by Microsoft locally would increase from the typical R699 recommended retail price to R899 and R999 per copy. Microsoft South Africa has issued the following press release regarding the Xbox 360 ...

Buying an Apple the hard way

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

No I’m not talking about the fruit although I do find similarities between the fruit and the people who represent Apple in South Africa. The first thing to note is that Apple products have one authorised distributor in South Africa and they are the Core Group. The same company ...

Scott Hanselman to visit South Africa

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Scott Hanselman is a well known blogger and owns the podcast Hanselminutes. He works for Microsoft as a DevDiv Community Liaison and he has offered to spend some of his vacation time with the SA Developer .NET community. He will be in Johannesburg on the evening of Monday ...

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