{"id":7100,"date":"2010-08-15T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mygaming-weekly-roundup-august-9-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7100-mygaming-weekly-roundup-august-9-13","title":{"rendered":"MyGaming weekly roundup (August 9 &#8211; 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty: Black Ops has been making news &#8211; a multiplayer teaser video was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7038-Call-Duty-Black-Ops-multiplayer-gameplay-revealed.html\" target=\"_self\">released<\/a>, showing off some cool gameplay features. A full multiplayer reveal was promised for 1 September. We also got a look at the impressive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7098-CoD-Black-Ops-Prestige-Edition-seriously-impressive.html\" target=\"_self\">Black Ops Prestige Edition<\/a> which contains a number of tantalising goodies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bioshock Infinite Announced<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7088-Bioshock-Infinite-Announced.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irrational Games made a big announcement &#8211; the next instalment of Bioshock. The announcement welcomes Irrational Games back to the development helm of the series. There was a pretty impressive<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioshockinfinite.com\/main.php\" target=\"_self\"> teaser video<\/a>&nbsp;released to accompany the announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valve Trademarks &#8220;DOTA&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7074-Valve-Trademarks-DOTA.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All but confirming the rumours of a Valve game inspired by Aeon of Strife styled WarCraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients was the news that Valve has registered for a trademark on the name &#8220;DOTA.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local Xbox 360 Games to get Xbox Live Content<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/7086-Local-Xbox-360-Games-get-Xbox-Live-Content.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many South African Xbox 360 gamers have been waiting to hear that the full Xbox Live service will be launched in South Africa. Whilst this is promised by year end, Microsoft SA has thrown us a bone, confirming that certain Live content will now be accessible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rumour: Duke Nukem Forever picked up by Borderlands developer <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7066-Rumour-Duke-Nukem-Forever-picked-Borderlands-developer.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Duke Nukem forever, a title that is probably the gaming industry&#8217;s longest running &nbsp;in-joke (and some investors&#8217; worst nightmare) has been resurrected once again. Developer Gearbox is apparently behind the helm of this particular revival attempt, and promised to reveal more information later in the year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PlayStation Move Price Roundup <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/7096-PlayStation-Move-Price-Roundup.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MyGaming rounds up PlayStation Move pricing from retailers around South Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMD reveals new CPUs<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7056-AMD-reveals-new-CPUs.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AMD has announced a series of new CPUs. There&#8217;s something for everybody, from those building a home media centre to the enthusiast gamers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Easter eggs revealed<\/strong> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7080-StarCraft-Wings-Liberty-Easter-eggs-revealed.html\" target=\"_self\"> read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MyGaming uncovers some of the cool Easter eggs that can be found throughout StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Have you spotted them all?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Columns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>4 Overlooked RPG Gems<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/7058-Overlooked-RPG-Gems.html\" target=\"_self\">read column<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Myles Gray takes a trip down RPG memory lane and lists some of best yet lesser known examples of the genre.<\/p>\n<p><em>Should we care about who we&rsquo;re shooting in games?<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/7042-Should-care-about-who-were-shooting-games.html\" target=\"_self\">read column<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tarryn van der Byl explores whether we should stop to think about all the bad guys we love to shoot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Mario Galaxy 2 &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/7062-Super-Mario-Galaxy.html\" target=\"_self\"> read review&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday Night Combat &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/7094-Monday-Night-Combat.html\" target=\"_self\">read review<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoopy.com\/tv\/gamestate\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GameState<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;weekly news roundup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"zoopy-video-227515\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"id=227515\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.z2.zoopy.com\/video-offsite.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/media.z2.zoopy.com\/video-offsite.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"id=227515\" id=\"zoopy-video-227515\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming&#039;s overview of news and features from the past week&#8230;<\/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-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}