{"id":33977,"date":"2012-03-12T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33977"},"modified":"2012-03-14T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:31:20","slug":"debriefing-mass-effect-3-launch-event-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/33977-debriefing-mass-effect-3-launch-event-in-cape-town","title":{"rendered":"Debriefing: Mass Effect 3 launch event in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proving that if you can do something once, you can do it again even bigger, better, and more badass. Mweb GameZone<\/a>‘s Mass Effect launch event on Friday 9 March was, well, bigger, better, and more badass than their Battlefield 3 launch event last November.<\/p>\n

Teaming up with EA<\/a> South Africa, as well as a bunch of sponsors including Rectron, Samsung, Kalahari.com<\/a>, GamersGate<\/a>, and Red Bull, Mweb hosted over thirty gamers for a night of junk food, fizzy drinks, and humanity’s last desperate stand against total annihilation. It’s like a package deal.<\/p>\n

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Which way to the laun- oh, there it is.<\/p><\/div>\n

The M-Cave venue was fitted with state-of-the-art anti-Reaper tech, featuring four Xboxes<\/a>, four PS3s<\/a>, and eight PCs<\/a>, all hooked up to Mweb’s 100Mbps (!) DSL for party play<\/span> cooperative counter-offensive manoeuvres. When your very existence is at stake, you need fast, reliable internet access.<\/p>\n

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The friendship corner - because when you're all in the fight together, there's no time for console wars. If the <spoilers> and the <spoilers> can make up, so can Xbox and PS3 fanboys.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is grooouuund controooool to Commander Shepard...<\/p><\/div>\n

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Military-grade fried chicken, dipped in the guts of our enemies.<\/p><\/div>\n

Prizes handed out over the course of the evening included a hot N7 edition of the game for PS3, which went out to Roger Burgess – who, interestingly enough, won a ticket to the event by dancing half-naked at the 2upGamers<\/a> event the week prior. So that worked out nicely for him, and maybe it makes up for all the YouTube videos and GIFs. Maybe…<\/p>\n

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Moments later, he stripped. He really did.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some guy also won a copy of The Sims: Showtime expansion, but I didn’t take a photo to protect his identity.<\/p>\n

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Wait, no. I did. Lol.<\/p><\/div>\n

Big up to Mweb, EA, and everybody else for putting together such a super event. In between 2upGamers, CTPGamers, and events like this one, it’s like the Cape Town crowd is becoming a real community. Sniff<\/em><\/p>\n

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