This week saw a number of big news items hit the gaming world, with Batman: Arkham Origins being announced, heaps of news and rumours of the next-gen Xbox, and some more news on Comic Con SA.

We also managed to check out some cool games to look out for, the big titles of Q2, and put some mid-range graphics cards up against one another.

Features

Gaming specials this weekend
Cool games to look out for
Q2 2013 games to look forward to
SA comic and geek conventions you should know about
Games you can play this week
5 new zombie games
Mid-range graphics cards: Price vs Performance
Intel’s Haswell lineup has three BGA-only chips
Entry-level graphics cards: gaming vs function

Local news:

SA Nintendo eShop launches
SA DJs battle it out at Celeb Gaming Showdown
“Sense of uncertainty” around Comic Con SA: Rebirth creators
PolarfluKe “pushed aside” by NAG, MSSA – organisations respond
Gaming boost with Afrihost ADSL network upgrade
BF3 Nations Cup: SA fall to Finland

News you should check out:

Need for Speed: Underground rebooting?
Next-gen Xbox launch titles uncovered
SimCity coming to Mac
Ever completed Snake? This guy has
Batman: Arkham Origins details, screenshots swoop in
Next Xbox not backwards compatible with 360 discs: report
Why do publishers avoid female heroes?
The PC that powered the Battlefield 4 demo
Hackers hit Ubisoft’s Uplay
PC sales see biggest decline in 20 years
Thief dev: “PC version is extremely important”
EA wins “Worst Company” award, again

Videos you should watch

Elysium trailer released for SA-born director’s next sci-fi epic
Badass game trailers of the week
5 next-gen engines and tech

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