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

The local news featured some specials being announced by local retailers, SA dev Runestorm discussing hard lessons learned, and an SA industry gaming discussion sparked a new debate.

On the international front, an underwater strip club that looks like Rapture was found, a Tomb Raider sequel was announced and the creator of Fez cancelled his sequel and quit the gaming industry.

Features

Games you can play this week
Digital retailers launch new gaming specials
Consoles and games prices reduced in sales specials

Hardware

Battlefield 4 gives AMD hardware a performance boost
SSD in next-gen consoles may not be a good idea
Intel planning cheap six-core processor in 2013?
Logitech refreshes PC peripherals lineup
World’s first AMD FM2+ ASUS motherboards in SA?
Impressive GPU mod has games running on Macbook Air

Local news

Girls just wanna have fun (too)
“No cost is too high” for SA gamers
SA game piracy by the numbers
SA gamers getting XBLA deals
SA pirates’ top ISP revealed
SA school opens game design course
SA’s Rooks Keep Steam Greenlight, hard lessons learned

News you should check out

Clan owner charged in global bank hacking scheme
Mike Tyson sucks at Punch-Out
Fez 2 cancelled, dev Phil Fish quits industry
Xbox One controller price revealed
Company of Heroes 2 is a “giant, offensive stereotype”
Biggest online space battle ever takes place
Penis peripheral game gets 3D Oculus Rift support
GTA 5: crazy new screenshots released
Next Games with Gold games revealed?
Next Mortal Kombat game in development
SA Xbox One price unconfirmed, pre-orders tentative
Bioshock Infinite storyline and gameplay DLC revealed
Take-Two sees massive digital revenue increase
Humble Deep Silver Bundle revealed
Underwater strip club looks like Rapture
Gamer leaves sick mother to die
Tomb Raider sequel announced
China launches Glorious Mission Online to celebrate military

Videos you should watch

Biggest game videos: Battlefield 4, FEAR Online
World’s fastest Rubik’s Cube king crowned
Get a close look at the PS4

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:

ChessConquest – official discussion thread
General Gaming Specials
What are you playing right now?
Rate the Last Game You Played
Abandoned/dead/niche games multiplayer group
Gaming Mods – Making all PC games more fun
Whats the best War game for both Xbox 360 and PS3?
PS Vita… Worth getting or not?