{"id":5478,"date":"2010-02-27T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"my-gaming-weekly-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5478-my-gaming-weekly-round-up","title":{"rendered":"My Gaming weekly round up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introducing local developer Open-Reset<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open-Reset recently poked its head from out of the shadows of local indie game development when it realised an impressive demo of its awesome looking platformer, Bounty Arms. This week we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/5431-Introducing-local-developer-Open-Reset.html\" target=\"_self\">caught up<\/a> with front man Benjamin Duk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>God of War III needs 35GB disk space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sony&rsquo;s Tom Moss, Director of technology at Sony Santa Monica revealed this week that the upcoming PS3 exclusive will require a massive<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/5432-God-War-III-needs-35GB-disk-space.html\" target=\"_self\"> 35GB of Blu-ray disk space<\/a> when it is released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Command &amp; Conquer retrospective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week we took a closer look at the lifecycle of the game that put the real time strategy genre on the map, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Command &amp; Conquer retrospective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/5443-Command-Conquer-retrospective-part.html\" target=\"_self\">part I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Command &amp; Conquer retrospective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/5455-Command-Conquer-retrospective-part.html\" target=\"_self\">part II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Command &amp; Conquer 4 will not feature LAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Always on internet required, no dedicated servers and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5441-Command-Conquer-will-not-feature-LAN.html\" target=\"_self\">no LAN <\/a>&ndash; Command and Conquer fans are up in arms.<br \/><strong><br \/>Valve knocks &ldquo;shitty&rdquo; motion control party games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems unlikely that fans of Valve franchises such as Left 4 Dead will be able to enjoy some first person action via motion control anytime soon following the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/5447-Valve-knocks-shitty-motion-control-party-games.html\" target=\"_self\"> remarks <\/a>Valve writer Chet Faliszek made this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A brand new Steam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Developers Valve<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/5456-brand-new-Steam.html\" target=\"_self\"> announced<\/a> this week that the public beta for its all new user interface for the Steam digital distribution platform is now available to all users via the opt-in setting within Steam.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>But seriously, enough with this DRM stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tarryn van der Byl gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/5451-But-seriously-enough-with-this-DRM-stuff.html\" target=\"_self\">her opinion<\/a> on a few DRM issues which have been encircling the PC world for some time now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heavy Rain out this week, prices compared<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quantic&rsquo;s Dream&rsquo;s highly anticipated psychological thriller Heavy Rain was released in SA this week, and we were pretty excited. To celebrate the launch of what may be a very important game for this generation, we decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/5458-Heavy-Rain-out-this-week-prices-compared.html\" target=\"_self\">find out<\/a> which retailers are selling the game for the best price.<br \/><strong><br \/>Heavy Rain &#8211; Why it&#8217;s so important<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavy Rain may be one of the most important games of the past 10 years<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/5461-Heavy-Rain---Why-its-important.html\" target=\"_self\"> believes <\/a>Philip Dunkley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worst games ever<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s well understood that in life we can&rsquo;t have our ups without having to endure the downs. With this in mind we give you some of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/5459-Worst-games-ever.html\" target=\"_self\">poorly received games of all time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Decline of PC Gaming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PC gaming is on its way down believes Michael Van Gelder &ndash; find out why.<\/p>\n<p>The Decline of PC Gaming &ndash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/5467-The-Decline-Gaming-Part.html\" target=\"_self\"> Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Decline of PC Gaming &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/5468-The-Decline-Gaming-Part.html\" target=\"_self\">Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/5438-Review-Dark-Void.html\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>Dark Void<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/5449-Vancouver-2010.html\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>Vancouver 2010<\/a><br \/><a href=\" http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/5453-Gyromancer.html\" target=\"_self\"><br \/>Gyromancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A selection of this week\u2019s biggest stories on MyGaming<\/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-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","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=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}