{"id":10627,"date":"2011-03-13T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mygaming-weekly-roundup-8-12-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10627-mygaming-weekly-roundup-8-12-march","title":{"rendered":"MyGaming weekly roundup (8- 12 March)"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Ops becomes best-selling game in history<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest NPD stats point to slight year-on-year growth in general, Black Ops still tops sales list<\/em><\/p>\n

Gamer criticises Bioware, Dragon Age 2 activation revoked<\/a><\/p>\n

Guy buys Dragon Age 2, can’t activate it because he posted facetious comment in BioWare forums<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday Fanatics Edition: UK therapist calls gaming “the silent killer of our generation”<\/a><\/p>\n

Derpderpderp<\/em><\/p>\n

PS3 injunction revoked, LG fined<\/a><\/p>\n

But it’s not over yet<\/em><\/p>\n

EA: “PC could become our biggest platform”<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital downloads on PC the way forward<\/em><\/p>\n

Gaming growing fast in SA, PC at slower pace – iGame<\/a><\/p>\n

We catch up with iGame’s fearless leader Johnathan Smit to discuss the current state of gaming in SA<\/em><\/p>\n

Sony to battle LG in court over PS3 seizure<\/a><\/p>\n

PS3 shipments hang in the balance as the patent dispute between Sony and LG goes to court<\/em><\/p>\n

AMD Radeon HD 6990: local pricing and availability<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD’s new performance monster set to hit local retailers next week<\/em><\/p>\n

Microsoft promises Games for Windows Live will “get better”<\/a><\/p>\n

Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh<\/em><\/p>\n

Angry Birds cost $140k to make, has made $70 million<\/a><\/p>\n

And that ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a ‘profitable enterprise’<\/em><\/p>\n

Crysis 2 WON’T be using EA’s Online Pass scheme<\/a><\/p>\n

Yay, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rift stock arrives in SA today<\/a><\/p>\n

Retail availability by the end of the week<\/em><\/p>\n

MWEB discusses World of WarCraft latency issues<\/a><\/p>\n

MWEB gives some insight into the problems facing local ISPs when serving international games<\/em><\/p>\n

BioWare releases official HD Texture Pack for Dragon Age II PC<\/a><\/p>\n

BioWare knows that some PC gamers demand the best<\/em><\/p>\n

Study: gaming causes insomnia<\/a><\/p>\n

Also reduces productivity, mood, sex drive, everything else<\/em><\/p>\n

Microsoft hiring for next-gen Xbox development<\/a><\/p>\n

Job postings officially out MS’s not-so-top-secret plans<\/em><\/p>\n

Valve boss reveals his Steam username and password<\/a><\/p>\n

Shows off fancy new security system<\/em><\/p>\n

MWEB announces gaming expansion, 53 new games on its network<\/a><\/p>\n

ISP continues to push into gaming<\/em><\/p>\n

Mind Sports South Africa “stronger than ever” in 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

We chat to MSSA about its current role in local eSports<\/em><\/p>\n

Sony to subpoena PS3 hacker’s site visitors’ IPs<\/a><\/p>\n

They’re makin’ a list, they’re checkin’ it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty and nice…<\/em><\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fight Night Champion<\/a><\/p>\n

Delivers a knock-out blow to any competitors in the boxing sim genre<\/em><\/p>\n

DC Universe Online (PS3)<\/a><\/p>\n

Massively Multiplayer Mediocrity<\/em><\/p>\n

Samsung HT-C5500 review<\/a><\/p>\n

Quality gaming audio on a budget<\/em><\/p>\n

Features<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dragon Age II review roundup<\/a><\/p>\n

Bioware’s fantasy RPG sequel meets early critical success<\/em><\/p>\n

Steam vs. Local retail pricing<\/a><\/p>\n

We compare local retail pricing with Steam pricing<\/em><\/p>\n

MWEB uncapped 1 year in – gaming tested<\/a><\/p>\n

We put MWEB’s 4MB shaped uncapped ADSL account to the test<\/em><\/p>\n

Nintendo 3DS hands on<\/a><\/p>\n

MyGaming lays hands on the Nintendo 3DS to see what all the fuss is about<\/em><\/p>\n

Rift one week In<\/a><\/p>\n

Early impressions of the MMORPG Rift<\/em><\/p>\n

Columns<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 sequels gamers could have done without<\/a><\/p>\n

And they’re not what you think they are…<\/em><\/p>\n

S.I.C.C – Stuck In Cliché Conundrum<\/a><\/p>\n

Tired of the same settings and concepts in gaming? I know I am.<\/em><\/p>\n

Videos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice: Madness Returns gameplay teaser<\/a><\/p>\n

Homefront multiplayer mayhem trailer<\/a><\/p>\n

Marvel vs Capcom 3 – Jill Valentine<\/a><\/p>\n

Dynasty Warriors 7 gameplay footage<\/a><\/p>\n

Marvel vs Capcom 3 – Shuma<\/a><\/p>\n

Screen shots <\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n

Dark Souls mega gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

Lego Star Wars III screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n

Dragon Age 2 screen shots<\/a><\/p>\n

Fight Night Champion screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We round up the week's biggest stories in gaming over the past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}