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Gavin Mannion

Microsoft exec leaves the company after twitter tirade

April 11, 2013 at 7:45 am | 38 Comments

You may remember last week that the Creative Director of Microsoft, Adam Orth, took to twitter to discuss the rumour that the next Xbox will require an always online connection. And by the look of it it hasn’t ended very well for Adam.


Geoffrey Tim

Metal Gear Rising “Longer than you think”

February 12, 2013 at 9:30 am | 13 Comments

Yesterday, we showed you the image that suggest that Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance would only take about 5 and a half hours to complete. Platinum Games’ Atushi Inaba isn’t too pleased about that claim, and took twitter to clarify the game’s length.


Darryn Bonthuys

Some people think that Borderlands 2′s Tiny Tina is racist

February 4, 2013 at 2:30 pm | 1 Comment

By now, it’s well documented that we happen to be utterly in love with Borderlands 2, our 2012 game of the year that isn’t Call of Duty Black Ops 2. Great guns, unreal monsters and even better characters made this one of the best titles of the year, something that plenty of other folks would agree on. What some other folks also agree on however, is that the loveable underage psychopath Tiny Tina is a racist stereotype. Those fools be crunk in the head yo.


Gavin Mannion

Facebook and Twitter kicked off the Xbox 360

October 19, 2012 at 9:00 am | 20 Comments

Way back in 2009 I wrote about Facebook and Twitter arriving on the Xbox 360 and at that time I wasn’t overly kind about either application.


Gavin Mannion

A developer trashes a PS3 title over twitter

August 6, 2012 at 9:00 am | 19 Comments

Hideki Kamiya is a video game developer who has worked on some stellar titles over the years including Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil 1 and 2 and Okami to name just a few but he’s hitting the news for an entirely different reason today as he decided to let the world know what he thought about PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale over twitter.


Gavin Mannion

Skyrim Dawnguard may not be coming to the PS3/PC

July 27, 2012 at 7:45 am | 64 Comments

Skyrim’s first DLC, Dawnguard, was released for the Xbox 360 back in June and while it didn’t set the Internet alight it was accepted quite well and unsurprisingly the PS3 and PC gamers have also been sitting back and expecting to get their DLC any day now.. but apparently they may be waiting for quite a while. Or forever and Dawnguard may not even make it to those platforms.


Darryn Bonthuys

The creator of Tekken has had it up to here with “negative fans”

June 26, 2012 at 1:00 pm | 18 Comments

Making a hit game in this industry, is no easy task. Continuing to develop on that initial success, while grabbing new gamers without alienating old ones? You might as well go hunting for unicorns. Tekken genius and creator knows what we’re talking about, and as far as he is concerned, he’s had enough of those fans who voice displeasure at everything.


Gavin Mannion

Game of Thrones publisher starts spamming twitter to market their game

April 2, 2012 at 10:45 am | 4 Comments

If you’re on twitter you should be following me (@lazygamers) but besides that you would have also noticed that there are certain words you mustn’t tweet.

If for example you tweet “I can’t find my iPad” you are guaranteed to receive a flood of spam tweets telling you where you can get a cheap iPad from and how they think you’re sexy and must call them.


Darryn Bonthuys

Has Psychonauts been saved by Minecraft?

February 8, 2012 at 2:15 pm | 1 Comment

Yesterday, Geoff spoke about how no one wanted to make a sequel to that beloved Tim Schafer creation, Psychonauts. It’s a crying shame too, because the game was one of the most original and fun titles to appear on the PS2, and despite it not really raking in any cash, it still managed to become a cult hit over the years.

According to Schafer, who’s tried pitching a sequel numerous times, no one seems interested in ponying up some cash to revive the beloved game. Until now that is, as salvation has come through in the form of a certain bearded and hat-wearing icon in the gaming world.


Geoffrey Tim

Xbox Live South Africa; where are we now?

April 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm | 30 Comments

When Xbox live finally launched in South Africa last November, we were elated; our years of campaigning and hard work had finally paid off. No longer would we be treated as second class netizens! Of course, being realists we stashed a little cynicism and skepticism aside just in case it wouldn’t be the digital land of milk and honey we were promised. It soon became evident that our stowed pessimism wasn’t for naught, when the local marketplace started out empty and was slow to populate. Blame has mostly been laid at the feet of our local Film and Publications Board, which certifies and rates the media entertainment that's put up for public consumption. It’s been nearly six months since Xbox Live launched locally - so where are we now?

Gavin Mannion

Q&A With Gears of War Developer–CliffyB

February 14, 2011 at 11:00 am | 4 Comments

The last we heard from CliffyB was when he was berating us for reporting on news he didn’t enjoy so much. After which we have struggled a bit to try and get any official comment or interview out of him so we have decided to resort to the next best thing.

A twitter interview conducted by our hordes of fans pretending to be random twitter people*, we got to hear about Pizza Rolls, where to eat in Raleigh NC and not to forget some Gears of War insights.


Geoffrey Tim

Kevin Butler Accidently Tweets PS3 Exploit

February 10, 2011 at 12:45 pm | 4 Comments

Oh trolls on the internet, you guys are hilarious. Some random person on the internet tweeted a string of numbers to the twitter account of Sony’s laudable PR icon, Kevin Butler.

The ever jocular VP of everything awesome, retweeted the seemingly incomprehensible code appended with a Battleship joke – not knowing that it’s the key for the one of the PS3 exploits that’s Sony’s been trying to stifle.


Geoffrey Tim

Breaking : South African Xbox Live Users Can Access Facebook and Twitter

January 26, 2011 at 11:18 am | 9 Comments

If you spend an awful amount of time on Twitter (and by rights, you totally should!), you may remember that earlier this month, Microsoft South Africa and the local Xbox 360 twitter accounts teased something big coming for South African Xbox Live. That alluringly teasing tweet summarily disappeared, with no real mention of it again. When we poked, pried and prodded, we were told that the announcement would be coming soon.

It seems that announcement is here, and guess what? It’s not that the Xbox Live marketplace is now fully populated. Commence booing now.


Gavin Mannion

Dead Space 2 Competition Winner Announced

January 26, 2011 at 8:00 am | 2 Comments

Yesterday we ran a Twitter competition where you had to tweet the statement “I want Dead Space 2 #lazygamers” to stand a chance of winning a copy of Dead Space 2 for whichever platform floats your boat.

The response was pretty impressive for a Twitter competition and I have just tallied all the entries (minus Geoff and Mik who weren’t allowed but tried to enter anyway) and the winner is


Miklós Szecsei

Rejoice! The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will use a new engine

December 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm | 3 Comments

Literally ten minutes before I found this information, I was moaning in the comments section of Nick’s news piece on Skyrim’s announcement. Clearly my Google-fu is a little slow this morning. I’m not sure which I’m more excited about: the fact that we’re getting a new Elder Scrolls game, or the fact that it’s built on a brand new graphics engine. Picked up by eagle-eyed Twitter followers, Bethesda fired this scrap of information onto the Internet a few hours after the game was officially revealed. That scrap, however, is probably the best news about the game so far.
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