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Mass Effect Release Date Announced

By Gavin Mannion
August 31, 2007 - 18 years ago

If you are one of the few NTSC 360 owners you will be happy to hear that Mass Effect will be released in the US on the 20th of November. There is still no word on the European (and are) release dates but if we follow the average trend of our release being 1 week later we can expect to see it on …

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The Darkness Review

By Gavin Mannion
August 30, 2007 - 18 years ago

Lord Spaceman has posted a fantastic in depth and comprehensive review of The Darkness. At a first glance, The Darkness comes across as a standard First Person Shooter. When you go a little closer however, you realise that it’s so much more than that, it’s a FPSWDTOOYB – a First Person Shooter With Demonic Tentacles Out Of Your Back. After the distributor …

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Peter Marks – Halo map creator is sick

By Gavin Mannion
August 30, 2007 - 18 years ago

Peter Marks is the creator of one of the most popular Halo maps Hang Em High. Unfortunately he has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of cancer, there has been a website created so that all the Halo fans who want to can send their best wishes. Through the link… An open letter to Peter Marks

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Motorstorm additional content imminent

By Gavin Mannion
August 30, 2007 - 18 years ago

A new marketing campaign is expected to start soon. It seems like Motorstorm is expecting an update. Included in the update will be some new vehicles, a reversal of the coyote track and possibly one completely new track. That flyer on the right looks like something that will be in magazines and on street poles. I don’t remember the Gears, …

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Locoroco Cocoreccho is just an 'interactive screensaver'

By Gavin Mannion
August 30, 2007 - 18 years ago

In what seems like a very strange move Sony has confirmed that the highly anticipated Locoroco is actually just an interactive screensaver? Instead of tilting the ground with the Sixaxis or shoulder buttons as you’d expect, the new gameplay mechanic has you controlling the Locorocos by interacting with the little flying blobs they used to collect in the PSP version. Now …

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PS3 suffers Half-Life 2

By Gavin Mannion
August 29, 2007 - 18 years ago

Yet another PS3 game delayed…  According to a report on IGN, the PS3 version of Half-Life 2: Orange Box will release “a few weeks later” than Orange box for PC and Xbox 360, both of which are due out on these (American) shores on October 12. So any guesses on how long a few weeks is? What is even scarier is that …

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Elite Transfer Cable and BioShock screw up

By Gavin Mannion
August 29, 2007 - 18 years ago

I sent a few questions over to Microsoft South Africa about how they managed to screw up the BioShock release and how we can get our hands on the Data Transfer cable… Also how about some price cuts being sent our way? Well here are the answers… Elite Data Transfer CableCurrently we will have to follow the exact same routine …

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Incredible Heavenly Sword Video – Awesome

By Gavin Mannion
August 29, 2007 - 18 years ago

Lets see if you can keep track of how many enemies are put on screen at the same time? Truly amazing power…

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Yet another analyst has his view on Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD

By Gavin Mannion
August 28, 2007 - 18 years ago

Okay these analysts views are a dime a dozen but this one takes a slightly different viewpoint. A lot of people point to the PS3 as the reason why Blu-Ray will win this war. However Rob Enderle has taken a slightly different view. He actually points to the PS3 as the reason why Blu-Ray will fail… However, this was all before …

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Walk your own path

By Gavin Mannion
August 28, 2007 - 18 years ago

I had to write an article for my companies newsletter so obviously I chose gaming in relation to business. I thought some of you might enjoy it so here it is.. It was announced yesterday that the Nintendo Wii is going to be launched in South Africa at the rAge expo at the end of September. So what is this …

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Halo 3 combat video

By Gavin Mannion
August 28, 2007 - 18 years ago

 A real life enactment of the Halo 3 battles.. Not that bad really…

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Developing for the PS3 just sucks

By Gavin Mannion
August 28, 2007 - 18 years ago

John Olin from Xbox-evolved has been talking to some EA developers about a bunch of different things, most of it was your general run of the mill stuff, like what new games are they looking at and why these annual sports games never seem complete. However he also touched on the difference between developing for the 360 and PS3… The truth …

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