While your week may have been filled with studying, work, or preparing for a blow-out at Avastar this weekend, MyGaming has been hard at work to deliver the biggest news that happened throughout this chaos-filled first week on July.
A lot of local and international news filled the headlines, although it was impossible to overlook some of the great details, videos and scoops on the latest and upcoming games.
Features
>> Big games of Q3 2012
>> Top rated PC games of all time
>> The best games you probably didn’t play
>> 4 in-your-face gaming gadgets
>> 5 games that better be in the Steam Summer sale
>> Super high resolution monitors in SA
Local news
>> Nintendo 3DS XL: South African pricing and release date
>> Friends of Design – SA’s big thing in game development education
>> SA game devs support Blankets for Cape Town with Vlokkie
>> SA Dota 2 tournament launched by Mweb GameZone, 10ten Gaming
>> Consumer Electronics & Technology Expo targets JHB and CT
Head in the clouds
The future of consoles and gaming were addressed in a number of different ways.
>> Sony buys cloud-gaming service Gaikai
>> Cloud gaming key strategy and area of investment for Xbox
>> Wii U hardware specs appear
>> EA to go “100 percent digital” in future
>> $99 Android-based console announced
>> Nintendo hints at online subscriptions in the future
That’s not how it was supposed to happen
People and technology combined, with some sad results.
>> Baby dead for a day as mom chats online
>> Student arrested over Wii homebrew hack
>> Police intercept online threat, raid wrong house
Some things to be excited about
>> Assassin’s Creed III “Rise” trailer gives you something to fight for
>> Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition premium DLC to include new characters and storylines
>> Assassin’s Creed III trailer brings patriotism to murder
>> PS1, PS2 games coming via PS3 streaming service
>> New PS3 model in the works
Honesty is the best policy
Some game devs opened up about their games, with bold and refreshing statements.
>> Modern FPS setting is getting “stale”, says Battlefield dev
>> Warren Spector wants you to be a mouse for a change
>> Diablo III players are “going to run out of stuff to do”, admits Blizzard
>> Sleeping Dog dev has “respect” for GTA, but throws a punch at the competition
In the pipeline
We learned that there were some things cooking in the game development oven.
>> Total War: Rome II announced
>> Codemasters reportedly busy with GRID 2
>> New Iron Man game in the works
>> Microsoft secures “Xbox 8″ domains
>> Final Fantasy VII returns… sort of
Don’t neglect me
Things are definitely being appreciated in the gaming world and old friends are being remembered.
>> $3.4 billion spent on video games in US, Q1 2012
>> Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream campaign DLC coming this month
>> Resident Evil 6 – 10 minutes of new gameplay
>> Conan O’Brien flaps his arms around in Michael Phelps Kinect game
>> Rambo video game will make a debut at Gamescom
>> Black Ops II multiplayer features new, futuristic Nuketown
>> Call of Duty sale gives back to charity
>> Activision: pay to revert in Tony Hawk HD
Video of the week
Assassin’s Creed III – “Rise” trailer
Screenshot of the week
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2
MyGaming Community comment of the week
“Someone should probably register ‘xbox8repair.com’ as well” – meh, in response to Microsoft registering a bunch of Xbox8 domain names.
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