Headlines this week were once again dominated by news regarding Infinity Ward’s soon to be released military FPS, Modern Warfare 2 (MW2).<\/p>\n
First a gameplay video emerged showing off a new third person game play<\/a> mode. Activision later confirmed<\/a> that third person mode would in fact be present in MW2.<\/p>\n Then another video surfaced showing off one of the game’s early missions. The controversial footage<\/a> shows a player taking on the role of a terrorist as they casually stroll through a busy airport slaughtering civilians.<\/p>\n Activision later provided context for the footage by explaining how, when and why it will be implemented.<\/p>\n Local console pricing comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n We compared the pricing of different home consoles across a variety of local retailers, and found that apart from a few subtle variations, pricing seems to be consistently regulated.<\/p>\n Xbox 360 dominates in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n We manage to get hold of some local console sales figures, and find that the Xbox 360 has outsold all other current generation home consoles in SA.<\/p>\n Linux gaming – it’s not all bad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We take a look at some games that can be played in the most popular alternative operating system to Windows. Sterkinekor Distribution halted<\/strong><\/a> Wii 2 set for 2010 launch?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We look at rumours that Nintendo is planning to launch its next-generation console in 2010, and consider why this may well be the case.<\/p>\n Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n We reviewed AMD’s new mid-range graphics card platform the HD 5770<\/a>, as well as Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2<\/a>, and NCsoft’s latest MMORPG Aion.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More Modern Warfare 2 scandal, Wii 2 in 2010 and local console pricing and sales figures<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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SterKinekor has halted the distribution of some of it games due to its packaging partner going into liquidation.<\/p>\n