{"id":7529,"date":"2010-09-10T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-04-29T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T10:10:34","slug":"mygaming-weekly-roundup-6-10-september-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7529-mygaming-weekly-roundup-6-10-september-2010","title":{"rendered":"MyGaming weekly roundup (6 \u2013 10 September 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Duke Nukem Forever<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official, and we can scarcely believe it, but <a title=\"Duke Nukem Forever out in 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7427-Duke-Nukem-Forever-officially-due-out-2011.html\" target=\"_self\">Duke Nukem Forever<\/a> should be on gaming systems sometime in 2011. That\u2019s if Gearbox has anything to say about it, and they do \u2013 in fact they explain exactly how they came to be in <a title=\"Gearbox explains how they nabbed the Duke Nukem IP\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7445-Gearbox-explains-how-they-nabbed-the-Duke-Nukem.html\" target=\"_self\">control of the Duke Nukem IP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t quite believe it, check out the screenshot gallery of <a title=\"DNF @ PAX 2010 image gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/7437-Duke-Nukem-Forever-demo-PAX-2010.html\" target=\"_self\">DNF in action at PAX 2010<\/a>. In honour of this momentous announcement, MyGaming embarked on a journey down <a title=\"Duke Nukem - A brief history\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7469-Duke-Nukem---brief-history.html\" target=\"_self\">Duke Nukem memory lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BioWare releases interesting Mass Effect 2 fun facts <\/strong>\u2013 <a title=\"BioWare releases interesting Mass Effect 2 fun facts\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7447-Bioware-releases-interesting-Mass-Effect-fun-facts.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BioWare has released some interesting Mass Effect 2 facts, which they plan on using to improve their future titles. Read on to find out the average completion time, which characters were most popular, and other interesting morsels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multiplayer Games Hurting Game Sales \u2013 Analyst<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"Multiplayer Games Hurting Game Sales \u2013 Analyst\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7467-Multiplayer-Games-Hurting-Game-Sales---Analyst.html\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently game publishers don\u2019t like gamers to play the same multiplayer games for too long. Knowledgeable industry analyst Michael Pachter explains why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Microsoft suspends XBL user for having \u201cFort Gay\u201d as location<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"Microsoft suspends XBL user for having \u201cFort Gay\u201d as location\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/7493-Microsoft-suspends-XBL-user-for-having-Fort-Gay-location.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft undoubtedly had some good <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">rigid corporate policy<\/span> intentions at heart when they banned a Xbox LIVE user for simply listing his location. A simple mistake perhaps, but the ensuing saga turned the whole thing into a bit of a controversy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANGRYAFRICAN wins Polarfluke: Heaven\u2019s Devils<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 <a title=\"ANGRYAFRICAN wins Polarfluke: Heaven\u2019s Devils\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7505-ANGRYAFRICAN-wins-Polarfluke-Heavens-Devils.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the South African competitive gaming scene, a StarCraft II tournament took place in which ANGRYAFRICAN took the MyGaming sponsored grand prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PS3 Jailbreaking reveals PS2 playback functionality<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"PS3 Jailbreaking reveals PS2 playback functionality\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/7453-PS3-Jailbreaking-reveals-PS2-playback-functionality.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS3 hackers have been a busy bunch lately. The latest news to emerge from the scene was that the PS3 may still have some latent support for PSX and PS2 emulation, raising the question as to why it was ditched in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this the ultimate gaming PC?<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"Is this the ultimate gaming PC?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7473-this-the-ultimate-gaming.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Origin has unleashed a beast of truly preposterous and awe-inspiring nature. Could this be the ultimate gaming system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 MMOs to keep an eye on<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"8 MMOs to keep an eye on \" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7487-MMOs-keep-eye.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MyGaming drools over eight good looking MMOs that will soon be gracing our gaming lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13 tuxtastic Linux Games<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"13 tuxtastic Linux Games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7491-tuxtastic-Linux-Games.html\" target=\"_self\">read article <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux user? Feeling a bit left out? It\u2019s not so bad &#8211; MyGaming rounds up some cool Linux games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5 Half-Life 2 mods<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"Top 5 Half-Life 2 mods\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7515-Top-Half-Life-mods.html\" target=\"_self\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Half-Life 2 is going strong, and so is its modding community. MyGaming has rounded up some top mods for your gaming pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Columns <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surviving Halo: Reach \u2013 <a title=\"Surviving Halo: Reach\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/7511-Surviving-Halo-Reach.html\" target=\"_self\">read column<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tarryn van der Byl prepares the gaming world for the next wave of Halo madness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crackdown 2<\/strong> \u2013 <a title=\"Crackdown 2 review\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/7497-Crackdown.html\" target=\"_self\">read review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming\u2019s roundup of news, reviews, features and opinions from the past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63829,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/63829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}