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R16 000 worth of prizes in iGame’s March Mayhem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local internet provider iBurst’s gaming division, iGame, has announced <\/a>that it will be hosting a massive month long series of competitions for various games on its servers. An impressive total of R16,000 worth of prizes will be doled out by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

iBurst launches ADSL and iGame Unlimited<\/strong><\/p>\n

iBurst this week announced<\/a> the launch of iGame Unlimited, as well as its brand new ADSL offerings.<\/p>\n

Massive issues with PlayStation Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thousands of PS3 owners around the world experienced issues <\/a>trying to log into PSN this week. To make matters worse this also affected offline play.<\/p>\n

Sony later came forward<\/a> to reveal that the problem could be attributed to an internal clock error within the consoles.<\/p>\n

StarCraft II beta cracked<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was only a matter of time before some cracker managed to get the recently released StarCraft II beta client working without the required beta key.<\/a><\/p>\n

Local StarCraft II prices confirmed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Megarom this week provided clarity <\/a>on StarCraft II pricing confusion.<\/p>\n

Activision calls Infinity Ward heads “Insubordinate”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things really heated up<\/a> this week between developers Infinity Ward and publishers Activision – resulting in the firing of studio founders Vince Zampella and Jason West.<\/p>\n

Sapphire releases 4GB overclocked HD 5970<\/strong><\/p>\n

Graphics card manufacturer Sapphire claimed this week that it has the fastest graphics card in the world<\/a> in the form of the overclocked AMD HD 5970 which sports a monstrous 4GB of onboard memory.<\/p>\n

March game release schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

This month has some excruciatingly enticing new games<\/a> set for release.<\/p>\n

Nvidia: “GTX480 faster than HD 5870”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nvidia’s Fermi range of GPUs is at this point still a largely unknown quantity. Having said that, the company now claims<\/a> that the top of the range Fermi card – the GTX 480 – is the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world.<\/p>\n

PC still the biggest online gaming platform<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite recent trends leading many to believe that PC gaming is in a state of decline, American research firm NPD has revealed<\/a> that the “PC is still the most-used system for online gaming, with 85% of online gamers reporting using a PC for online gaming activities.”<\/p>\n

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 out this week, prices compared<\/strong><\/p>\n

After much hype and anticipation the sequel to the critically acclaimed 2008 first person shooter and multiplayer extravaganza, Battlefield: Bad Company, is out this week.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ubisoft’s contentious DRM scheme already hacked<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ubisoft’s always on internet DRM system has already been hacked.<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Heavy Rain <\/a><\/p>\n

Dante’s Inferno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A selection of this week\u2019s biggest stories on My Gaming<\/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-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","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=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}