Tag Archives: fail

Darryn Bonthuys

Looks like Comic Con South Africa was a bust

April 29, 2013 at 12:00 pm | 30 Comments

We’re pretty much starved for comic book conventions this side of the globe. Actually, I’m flatout lying, there’s a bunch of great ones that occur annually, including Free Comic Book Day, Kin-Con, ICON and Up-Con scratching that particular itch. Pity that the same couldn’t be said for Comic-Con South Africa, amirite?


Darryn Bonthuys

Zynga is losing gamers by the truckload

April 25, 2013 at 1:00 pm | 11 Comments

Want to get into gaming? Want to also make some cash in the process? Well then Facebook is where it’s at sucka! Oh yeah, that social network is a gold mine of eager customers who are just waiting to don a red jacket and demand that you take their cash! Especially if you’re Zynga! Except that underneath their latest numbers round-up, there lurks an undeniable truth. They’re losing gamers. Constantly.


Darryn Bonthuys

Two thirds of Kickstarter games failed in 2012

January 9, 2013 at 11:15 am | 5 Comments

Time to get mathematical! Kickstarter took off in 2012, as thousands of games were pitched in order to get a slice of that sweet crowdsourcing pie. While Double Fine and a few others were big success stories, plenty of smaller games also managed to garner enough pledges to see dreams become reality.


Yolanda Green

Zombie swimsuit calendar fail

November 13, 2012 at 6:00 pm | 16 Comments

Zombies are as big a part of gaming as the platforms we play on itself. We love zombie games, zombie mods and zombie movies alike. However this zombie swimwear calendar completely misunderstood the concept.


Geoffrey Tim

There’s a new Mega Man Game coming!

September 20, 2012 at 2:00 pm | 7 Comments

Earlier this week, I told you how Capcom still hated Mega Man and was effectively flipping Mega Man fans the bird. Turns out I was wrong - because Capcom’s announced a brand new Mega Man game at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, and even has a trailer to prove it.


Darryn Bonthuys

Syndicate was a catch-22 battle from the start

June 20, 2012 at 11:30 am | 11 Comments

The year is now almost halfway done, and we’ve been spoilt for choice so far with games. RPGs, action titles and gunplay from a popular first-person perspective have all made big splashes so far, but one game with high hopes that failed to really make an impression, was Syndicate.

An underwhelming reboot of a classic title, Syndicate experienced underwhelming sales when released, as well as quite a few curb-stomps from the critics. Developer Starbreeze was aware that the game might not be a hit, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t have pride in their creation.


Gavin Mannion

Why Diablo 3 needs that constant Internet connection

May 16, 2012 at 12:15 pm | 3 Comments

Yesterday we posted up the article about how the Diablo 3 launch has been marred by their server collapse and unsurprisingly Blizzard are not enjoying hearing about how the most anticipated title of the year isn’t being enjoyed by all that pre-ordered it.

In our article Geoff mentioned that he believes the main reason that you have to have that constant Internet connection is for DRM and anti-piracy reasons, however that is being strongly denied by Blizzard.


Gavin Mannion

Namco tries to use male sex to sell… fails

January 9, 2012 at 9:00 am | 11 Comments

Last week we posted up about the Soul Calibur 5 poster from Namco which was nothing more than a close up shot of a pair of breasts which appealed directly to their target market.

The marketing worked as it was splashed across the front page of every gaming website on the planet so they decided to try do it again but this time they’ll use a close up shot of a male characters crotch.


Gavin Mannion

How to destroy your business in 8 hours–Ocean Marketing

December 28, 2011 at 8:00 am | 36 Comments

If you’re in any doubt over the power of the Internet then let this be a massive lesson to you. A company called Ocean Marketing has managed to completely implode in the space of 8 hours with what can only be described as the most disgraceful PR moves ever made.

It all started with an email conversation between a client who had pre-ordered a new Avenger controller and Paul Cristoforo of Ocean Marketing, what happened next is long, amazing and completely insane.. there’s even a video for you lot who don’t want to read it.


Gavin Mannion

The new Xbox 360 dashboard gimps video playback

December 19, 2011 at 11:00 am | 6 Comments

How’s this for a surprising turn of events, apparently the new Xbox 360 Metro dashboard has a bug in that it negatively affects any video played on it.

Which is a bit of a kick in the face to Microsoft’s claim that the Xbox 360 is the best media device for under your TV.


Gavin Mannion

Please vote for us in the SA Blog Awards

November 8, 2011 at 12:15 pm | 35 Comments

There we go, straight forward and simple headline.

We the staff of Lazygamer would dearly love to win the SA Blog Awards and as such we need your vote…. okay that’s not entirely true.


Gavin Mannion

This is the most offensive, sexist gaming advert I’ve ever seen

November 7, 2011 at 8:30 am | 72 Comments

What do you call a company that forks out big money so that a marketing company can create the most offensive, stereotypical and sexist advert on the planet?

No really it’s a question because I can’t imagine how stupid a company needs to be to not only hire someone to make this but to then approve it for release and then act surprised by the public lashing it’s surely receiving by now.


Geoffrey Tim

Rumour: Is the Wii U in trouble?

September 8, 2011 at 11:30 am | 16 Comments

Fairly dependable French gaming site 01.net - the same bunch who outed the Wii U and the 3DS’ now confirmed second analogue peripheral - now claims that the Nintendo’s next home console is in a whole heap of trouble. The Wii U, it claims, had its hardware specs rushed out the door too soon and that the chipset that powers the tablet isn’t powerful enough to do what’s required of it.

Ubisoft are imposing archaic DRM on Driver: San Francisco

Gavin Mannion

Ubisoft are imposing archaic DRM on Driver: San Francisco

July 28, 2011 at 7:45 am | 2 Comments

In our team Nick is by far and away the biggest driving fan around, if you get him talking about lap times and wheels and stuff he just pretty much never shuts up. While the rest of of us sneak out the back to go play real man games like Super Mario or Kirby.

I bring this up not only to make fun of Nick’s petrol headedness but also to point out that Nick’s also got the most unreliable Internet in the team with it dropping pretty much daily for some reason or another and this has now given me huge cause for concern.


Gavin Mannion

Who would have thought that Duke Nukem had an inferiority complex

March 10, 2011 at 12:30 pm | 3 Comments

Yesterday in our company Skype chat some tard decided to send out a picture of Mini Me (From Austin Powers) having sex… now the reason I bring up this awful image is that is exactly what I thought of when I saw the Duke Nukem balls of steel statuette. I mean come on Duke’s bigger than big and just as bad ass and they give him a limited edition statuette that could fit in your front pocket without anyone cracking dirty jokes… It’s just not Duke
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