| | In Other News – August 30, 2010 | 
Nick de Bruyne - August 30th, 2010 | While the Epic Mickey collector's edition looks awesome, I think it would have been a lot more awesome if it had some of those ladies in the outfits above included in the bundle. I'm busy playing Mafia II this week, and a review should be up soon. Are any of you ... [»] |
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| New Playstation Move Demo Shows Off Even More Potential | 
Nick de Bruyne - August 30th, 2010 | We have posted up a few videos in the past of demos of the Playstation Move and its possibilities, but a new video has been put up on the official US Playstation blog and it's a whole lot better than some cam footage from a showroom floor.
Anton Mikhailov returns once again ... [»] | 
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| Some Insane Stats About Starcraft 2 In South Korea | 
Nick de Bruyne - August 30th, 2010 | South Koreans are absolutely crazy for Starcraft and when you see some of the stats attached to the infographic after the jump, you will know what I mean.
How about the fact that the average South Korean Starcraft pro gamer makes 3 times as much as the average salary, or the fact ... [»] | 
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| L.A Noire Delayed Again, Says Analyst | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 30th, 2010 | L.A Noire, Team Bondi’s take on the stylistic, black and white crime thrillers of the 40s and 50’s has been in development since 2005 – and was supposed to have been out by October of this year. It’s now been delayed. Again.So when will the former Playstation 3 exclusive finally see a retail release?According to Evan Wilson, an analyst ... [»] | 
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| Lucasarts’ Incredible Frame Rate Upscaler – Is this the Future of Console Games? | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 30th, 2010 | At the recent SIGGRAPH 2010 - Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques – one of LucasArts’ coders, Dmitry Andreev, who’s currently working on the new Force Unleashed showcased an interesting technology he and his team devised.They’ve come up with a software frame-rate upscaler – that makes games look and feel like they’re running at 60fps, and uses less resources than the current motion-blur method used in most games today.The idea for the system ... [»] |
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| Dragon Age 2 : Single Race Offset by Player Choice | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 30th, 2010 | Some people are mighty upset that Dragon age 2, the sequel to Bioware’s Baldur’s Gate successor will only let you play as a human, eschewing much of the character customisation of its forebear, which allowed the payer to choose from three distinct races – Human, Elf and Dwarf. BioWare boss Ray Muzyka ... [»] |
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| Sexy and Creepy Metroid Fan art | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | Last week we posted up some creepy gaming fan art and to start this week of with a bang we have some sexy or creepy Metroid fan art depending on your personal preference I guess. Here are my favourite ones and then click through to TheKartel below to see the rest. ... [»] | 
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| F1 2010 Codemasters vs Real Life | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | A couple of years ago all the news posts were about how close to realism the GT5 video’s were. Well there is a new pretender to the crown in the shape of Codemasters F1 2010 which is looking incredible. I watched Nick have some hands on time with this at E3 ... [»] |
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| MMA banned in Denmark for advertising… Energy Drinks… ? | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | Okay class let’s take a pop quiz. Of all the evils that gaming contains how many of you would ever have guessed that a game would be banned because it advertised an energy drink? Well this has just happened in Denmark of all places, a country which is happy to accept ... [»] |
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| GT5 to have a 10GB Install… ouch | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | Nothing has been officially confirmed yet but the grand master of Gran Turismo 5, Kazunori Yamauchi, has responded to a tweet question around the size of the GT5 install with quite a shocking number. According to Kaz we are going to need 10GB of HDD space if we want a smooth ... [»] |
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| We’re changing and yet staying the same | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | So it finally happened, the change over to Lazygamer.net has started and so far it has gone incredibly well… which is worrying as things like this should never go without a hitch. You may have noticed already that the Lazygamer.co.za URL that you typed in or click on has magically become ... [»] |
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| Red Dead Redemption:Liars and Cheats Pack priced and dated | 
Gavin Mannion - August 30th, 2010 | Rockstar has just announced that it's next DLC for Red Dead Redemption, Liars and Cheats, will be released on the 21st of September for $15.95 on PSN or 800 MS points on the Xbox 360.All the important details can be found below but I am most excited about multiplayer horse races and 7 new gang hideouts in free roam mode. It's been about a ... [»] |
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| Mafia 2 Winner Announced | 
Gavin Mannion - August 28th, 2010 | Yesterday we posted up a quickfire competition to celebrate the release of Mafia 2 which is available in stores right now. To ensure you don’t waste your entire weekend hoping you have won but haven’t I have decided to post the winners ... [»] |
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| In Other News – 27 August 2010 | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 27th, 2010 | It’s finally bloody Friday. It’s been a heck of a long, trying week – and the nasty strikes in the education and health sectors haven’t made the week any more pleasant. Besides drinking yourselves in to a stupor, what are you planning to do this weekend? Nick’s off to the Drakensberg with his lovely wife, presumably to spend the weekend exploring peaks. Me? I ... [»] |
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| Left 4 Dead started Out as a Flying Fairy Game? | 
Geoffrey Tim - August 27th, 2010 | Speaking to PC Gamer, Valve have said that one of the prototypes they were working on before it eventually became the sublime, zombie-killing co-op game we all know and love was a flying Fairy RPG game. “There were a few failed starts to build Left 4 Dead,†Valve’s Doug Lombardi said. “Well, there was the flying fairy game. Is that the one you were referring to?†responded Krispy Kreme’s favourite customer, ... [»] |
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