Xbox 360 price-cut for South Africa

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Awesome news for the local gaming industry. The Xbox 360 was by far the prominent console platform at rAge Expo 2008 once again and it just goes to show how committed Microsoft South Africa are in succeeding in this market. JOHANNESBURG – 6th October 2008 – ...

Megarom’s impressive rAge line-up

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Megarom is going to have a busy stand next month at rAge 2008 with some pretty awesome games coming out this year. In particular I’m keen to get my hands on Far Cry 2 as well as for some more play time on the new Call of Duty and ...

Xbox 360 now sporting a 60GB hard drive

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Yes the rumour that Lazygamer reported on is partially true. South African will now be able to get the 60GB Xbox 360 console for the same price as the previous 20GB Xbox 360 console was selling for. I believe this is really awesome as it positions the Xbox 360 ...

Guitar Hero III: Legends Competition at rAge Expo 2008

Monday, September 8th, 2008

  Megarom in association with The Lair are holding a Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock competition at rAge Expo this year. If you think you have what it takes to rock the stage, then get yourself down and enter, you might just win. Even if you ...

Xbox 360 announcements from Leipzig

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Looks like the run up to the 2008 festive season is going to be quite a busy one with some good interactive titles planned for release on the Xbox 360 platform. Its great that there should be a game for every member of the family. I’m personally keen ...

Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 Photos

Monday, August 11th, 2008

This year Tech-Ed South Africa was held in Durban, South Africa’s playground, and I managed to snap a few photographs with my new Sony DSLR-A350 camera. The event started off as per usual with a bit of a show by some talented dancers and some sexy ladies in ...

27dinner photos and follow-up

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Last night I attended the Johannesburg 27dinner and as usual I took too many photos. All in all there were three talks presented by Kate Elphick, Jason Hobbs and Charl Norman. Unfortunately the restaurant patrons upstairs made it very difficult for people at the back of the restaurant to ...

Xbox 360 price cut in South Africa

Monday, March 10th, 2008

For those that haven't heard the good news yet, there was a rather awesome bit of news out of Microsoft today. No Xbox LIVE isn't officially available in South Africa yet, rather the Xbox 360 product range got a cool R600 to R700 price drop depending on the model. ...

Lost hits the SA stores today

Friday, March 7th, 2008

If you are a fan of the TV series Lost then you might be interested in picking up a copy of Lost the video game. The game has a Teen ESRB rating so it should be suitable for most of the family and apparently feels very much like ...

What it feels like to be a woman

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Just to brighten up this rainy Friday afternoon, I stumbled upon this bit of humour. On a Nationwide flight to Johannesburg, a plane passes through a severe storm.   The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck by lightning. One woman in ...