Why you have to register for the Mortal Kombat tournament
There is a local Mortal Kombat tournament that is one of the important video game tournaments held in South Africa for years.
View ArticleA GTA Retrospective – GTA returns to Liberty City
Following the release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in 2004, Rockstar immediatelly began work on a game that would be even more ambitious in scope, size and narrative.
View ArticleA GTA retrospective – Los Santos Online, and a new dawn on PC
GTA V's journey ends with a bang, delivering explosive online heists and an all new way to play on PC.
View ArticleShould the new Roxy really be representing rAge?
Is the new Roxy design fit to represent rAge, or is it wildly inappropriate as a mascot?
View ArticleGamergaters have created a website outing ‘corrupt’ journalists
The Gamergate movement isn't giving up and they have now created a website listing the corrupt dealings of some videogame journalists.
View ArticleHey did you hear about the Anita Sarkeesian posters at E3?
A new attack has been made against Anita Sarkessian but is it all what it seems?
View ArticleMigrating Xbox Gamertags is a mess, and a problem for Windows 10
Wanting to migrate your Xbox Gamertag from a temporary email account to a real one? You can, but Microsoft is making it needlessly difficult.
View ArticleLocal Dota 2 team’s chances thwarted by a DGL technicality
There's a new strategy to winning games. Lose hard, make sure you know the tournament rules, and enforce them after the game. Should we accept this?
View ArticleBatman Arkham Origins is my favourite dark knight game
It’s been two years since Batman: Arkham Origins released. Two years since fans were subjected to a buggy mess of a prequel that could barely manage a fast-travel system before crashing into a sea of...
View ArticleOverwatch is really good at making you feel like a great player
Overwatch's biggest strength doesn't lie in it's mechanics, but rather in the way it subverts traditional shooter focues to make everyone feel like they're great at the game - no matter what.
View ArticleThis virtual reality game about 9/11 shouldn’t be controversial
[08:46] is a new virtual reality narrative experince that puts you in the shoes of a worker in the World Trade Center on the day of the 9/11 attacks. It's a little controversial
View ArticleOpen-worlds don’t always mean better games, as Rise of the Tomb Raider proves
There's an incredibly strong push for games to adopt open-world appraoches to their experinces, but this often doesn't mean that the game will immedaitely be better. Rise of the Tomb Raider acts as a...
View ArticleFallout 4 doesn’t tell me which quests are important, and that’s fantastic
Fallout 4 has a knack for making every quest feel as important as the last, and doesn't feel the need to remind me how to progress the story. And it's a better game because of it.
View ArticleFirst impressions on Star Wars Battlefront–You won’t be surprised
I've had some hours in the Star Wars Battlefront world but not enough to pretend I can review the game.. Enough though to tell you I don't want to review it.
View ArticleKotaku calls out blacklisting, Gamergate goes insane
The big news out today is that Kotaku has called out Ubisoft and Bethesda for blacklisting them from all news and review copies after they ran with some leaked information about their upcoming titles.
View ArticleAre betas good for consumers and bad for publishers?
The new Rainbow Six Siege beta kicks off today and so far it hasn't gone great. Which begs the question whether these betas are working for publishers or not
View ArticleRichard Lewis has been banned from working at Dreamhack
After a physical altercation between eSports host Richard Lewis and Dota professional Jonathan "Loda" Berg at Dreamhack Winter, Dreamhack have responded by banning Richard Lewis from future events. In...
View ArticleThat Dragon, Cancer is the hardest game I’m glad to have ever played
That Dragon, Cancer isn’t a video game. Or, at least, it isn’t what you’ve been programmed to think a video game is.
View ArticleXbox fans are incredibly angry that Quantum Break is coming to PC
Xbox fans are angry over Quantum Break coming to PC, and have lashed out against Phil Spencer. Although it's difficult to see their points of reason.
View ArticleSo what’s up with the price for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare?
Why is there such a massive price gap between some games locally? There's many reasons actually.
View ArticleLength should never determine a game’s worth
Should price be dictacting how long a game should last regardless of quality? No, never.
View ArticleE3 2016–Mafia III is about keeping your friends close, and your enemies...
Mafia III tasks you with not only building your empire within New Orleans, but making sure your friends don't turn on you in the process.
View ArticleNo Man’s Sky’s day-one patch changes the game entirely, and that’s not ok
Hello Games look set to fundementally change the way No Man's Sky works with its first patch, and that's a bit of a problem
View ArticleTitanfall 2 feels like its taking some titanic steps backwards
The original Titanfall excelled at making people feel special. Titanfall 2? It's more of the same, but with less soul and better mechanics balanced by sluggish controls.
View ArticleMario on iPhone is a massive leap forward for Nintendo
Last night’s real headline was Nintendo releasing a Mario game on a platform that they didn’t own. A huge leap forward in the thinking of how Nintendo develops games.
View ArticleFive new features that Mafia III brings to the table (Sponsored)
Mafia 3 is a radical change from the narrative heavy games it shares names with, and there's anhost of new features that make this sequel incredibly exciting.
View ArticleOverwatch’s new co-operative mode should be a permanent feature
Blizzard loves making neat experimental modes with their games, so why shouldn't they make the best of them permanent features?
View ArticleCasual gamers: An outdated and bygone group
Gaming has wrestled with the idea of casual gamers vs hardcore gamers for as long as I can remember - but is a distinction that still needs to be made?
View ArticleRevenge of the white boys club – Whitelash in gaming
We may not have elections in the gaming scene that affects the world in quite the way that Brexit or the US elections have, but nonetheless whitelash needs to be taken seriously and we need to tackle...
View ArticleWatch Dogs 2 is great, but it’s at its worst when you’re murdering people
Watch Dogs 2 lets you play any way you choose, but going the murderous route couldn't be further from the actual tone of the game.
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