Big gaming news: price wars and a grand crime spree

There was a wealth of gaming news throughout the week, including some big international and local stories.

There were SA retailers who introduced some gaming promotions, the Steam Summer sale kicked off,  and a new Ratchet and Clank game was announced, but arguably the biggest eye-catcher was the first gameplay from Grand Theft Auto 5.

Features

Weekly digital download deals
Video game movie casting call
Games you can play this week
5 ridiculous PC mods

Hardware

Intel Atom, Celeron, Pentium lineup detailed
Price roundup: Five budget gaming mice compared
Sapphire Radeon HD7730 with GCN architecture hits budget zone
Gigabyte Force K7 Stealth gaming keyboard unveiled
ASUS UltraHD 4K monitors for SA: details
Cooler Master unveils Storm Quickfire XT gaming keyboard

Local news

SA retailers deliver gaming specials
Nvidia shuns SA on Splinter Cell: Blacklist bundle
Monster Aerocool StrikeX ST Black coming to SA
“Mega uncapped ADSL” from OpenWeb
10ms, 200Mbps mobile broadband bodes well for SA gamers
SA developer brings alien-goo cleaning-sim
SA gamers spend in the billions of Rand

News you should check out

New lady in charge of Xbox division
Steam Summer Sale is here
Xbox Live game prices will be going up: beta feedback
Xbox Live Summer of Arcade games and prices detailed
Xbox One reputation system pools rage-quitters together
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus announced
The Last of Us becomes best-selling PS3 game of 2013
PC losing ground to devastating tablet incursion
Dota 2 launches on Steam
The ultimate simulator game is here
Where can you find indie bundles?
Jailed LoL teen gets anonymous bail money
GTA 5 depresses Kojima, MGS 5 isn’t on same level
Nintendo wins R9.5 million in piracy damages
Rockstar talks GTA 5 gunplay, vehicle customisation
Windows 8.1 launch date revealed
Former Valve employee exposes “hidden layer” of power
This is the man who won John Carmack’s Ferrari

Videos you should watch

GTA 5 gameplay video finally unveiled
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag 7-minute gameplay walkthrough

Get involved in the community; get games!

The Steam community on the MyGaming forums are always trading and giving gifts to one another. If you’d like to participate in the action, head over to the MyGaming Steam trading and gifting forums thread.

Have a brain? We want to know what its thinking!

If you’d like to get further involved with the MyGaming community, check out some of the popular threads in the forum:

Have single-player FPS gone backwards?
Rate the Last Game You Played
Starcraft 2
Neverwinter
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Summer Sale is on!
PS Vita… Worth getting or not?
BT Games Preplayed?

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