So I posted yesterday about the PS3 being beaten once again in the US by both the Xbox 360 and by a much larger margin the Wii. Well while that may be disturbing the big bosses at Sony headquarters the latest sales figures from Japan will have them reaching for the champagne. For the second week running the PS3 has …

I don’t know if you noticed but quite a few pirates have been boasting recently that they were on Live with flashed firmware and Microsoft will never catch them. Well it seems like Microsoft has decided to initiate another wave of mass banning and a lot of the smug pirates are whining like little babies. Now while I agree with …

I have this sick fascination about terrible games and by the look of it Anubis II is the worst game ever created for the Wii…. Possibly for any platform. Gamespot has just finished reviewing it and has given it a whopping 1.5/10 There conclusion If you play it, you can never get back the three hours you wasted on this unique …

I thought I had written about this before but I can’t find it… anyway it is worth mentioning again.  Microsoft has launched a promotion offering 10 free Xbox Live arcade titles to new and existing consumers. Basically if you convince someone to part with their money and to pick up a Xbox 360 console in the run up to Christmas you …

So it has been a whole year since the PlayStation 3 was launched in America. Time goes quickly doesn’t it… Anyway PS3Fanboy has put together a great article detailing the similarities and differences between the first year of each of the PlayStation’s lives. From this graph it looks quite obvious that the PS3 is doing better than the PS1 but worse than the …

So they are finally here, the latest US sales which include the new cheaper 40GB model…. So how did they fair? These are the sales for the week ending the 17th of November and the figures in brackets are from the week prior to 40GB takeoff. Wii –  253,878 (146,934)360 – 154,918 (138,778)PS3 –  87,255 (55,446) So the PS3 sold 22 …

Carl Nelson from HCW has put together a very nice comparison between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the run up to this holiday season. What is interesting about this comparison is that there has been a ton of feedback from a games developer which gives Carl a unique perspective into the war. While he raises many points the one I am going …

The whole “PS3 has no games” thing has been done to death and it seems Sony have taken note and accordingly dropped the price of their PS3 development package. This doesn’t necessarily make it any easier to develop games for the PS3, it’s just just that this will help in relieving the game “drought” that Sony seems to have experienced …

In some suprising news it appears that the head of Microsoft Game Studios (Shane Kim) is on his way out of Microsoft. Nothing has been confirmed yet but when rumours are being reported by Kotaku, 1UP, EGM and others and Microsoft don’t categorically deny it then we have to assume it is true. So why would Shane be leaving when the department is finally …

Megarom one the biggest games distributors in South Africa has given their website a much needed facelift. Now instead of showing us completely outdated information we can view the latest release schedules, news and in a suprising turn of events… local events. Hopefully this is a sign of Megarom integrating themselves more into the local gaming community in the future. They are also …

So after the much hyped and over disappointing 2.0 update the usual quickfire updates are back. Sony has announced firmware version 2.01 which contains the following awe inspiring updates [Remote Start] feature is changed to avoid unintended power on. Stability of System Software including Internet Browser and Information Board has been improved. Stability during playing some PLAYSTATION 3 format software has …

Well this must be the deal of the century for the PS3. MyShopToday.co.za is selling 60GB PS3 starter packs for an amazing R2849… Only to Standard Bank credit card holders though. Honestly this is enough of a reason to get a Standard Bank credit card… However if you are still not convinced then they will also throw in a PS3 T-Shirt …