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 ...

Live your very own movie premiere every night

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

There is some awesome value coming to the Xbox 360 platform this festive season with family oriented titles like Lips, Scene It? Box Office Smash and finally the awesome new title You’re in the Movies. It works with the Xbox LIVE Vision camera accessory that has up until now ...

Watch out SingStar, here comes Lips

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

At the rAge Expo this earlier this month we had a chance to experience preview code of the new karaoke game for the platform Xbox 360. Its the first game I believe to include wireless microphones never mind motion sensitive ones. Microsoft South Africa has just announced that the ...

Call of Duty: World at War beta key winners

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Congratulations to Ivan Daw and PARANOID365 for being randomly selected from the comments, you each should have received and email from me with a redeem code for the Call of Duty: World at War Xbox 360 multiplayer beta. Sorry Frank, a moving comment, but unfortunately it was a ...

Call of Duty World at War multiplayer beta keys

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I have two Call of Duty World at War multiplayer beta keys to giveaway. Note that these keys are for the Xbox 360 multiplayer beta and you need a hard drive, bandwidth to download the beta (890 MB) and an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to play. In my experience ...

South African Xbox 360 Troubleshooting Guidance

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I can see flashing red lights on my console Seeing flashing red lights on your console’s Ring of Light is not always a bad thing. A lot of people see flashing red lights and think the dreaded Red Ring of Death (RRoD) has struck and often its just a ...

South African Xbox 360 search engine

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Thanks to the new Google Custom Search functionality I’ve setup a search engine for South African Xbox 360 sites and blogs. Its currently in testing and will improve in time. If you run a South African Xbox 360 related site, get in touch with me and I’ll add your ...

The New Xbox Experience due out in November

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

 Yes its official, courtesy of Major Nelson’s blog: John Schappert, Corporate Vice President of Xbox LIVE, Services and Software, announced today during his Tokyo Game Show keynote that the New Xbox Experience will ship to Xbox 360's around the world (in 26 countries, localized in 11 ...

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 – ...