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Turtle Beach Headsets Coming to South Africa

Avid gamers will be glad to hear that Turtle Beach, the renowned gaming headset manufacturer, is coming to South Africa. Pure Distribution, a locally based electronics & telecommunications distributor has confirmed this in a press release. Pure Distribution will be importing  a range of gaming headsets in association with QV Software (QVS), an Australia based leading interactive entertainment specialist in the…

Dead Space Dev Apologises for Knocking Gears of War

EA’s Dead Space story producer, Chuck Beaver has apologised for his negative comments about Epic’s Gears Of War series. The apology stems from an interview which appeared on EA’s official blog knocking Gears Of War for its, “atrocious, offensive violations of story basics.” Beaver famously said the Gears of War series had “literally the worst writing in games.” The post has now…

New Online Retailer to Share Trade-In Revenue With Publishers

Used video game retailers are largely frowned upon by many publishers, for various reasons, primarily because some retailers promote used games over new games. Publishers have in recent times implemented online activation codes among other mechanisms to counter used game sales. EKGaming, a new online retailer, now believe they can achieve a healthy “circle-of-life” for video games, and so the retailer…

Peter Molyneux’s 22 Cans Receives 1000 Job Applications

Fable creator and former Lionhead boss, Peter Molyneux has reportedly received 1,000 job applications at his new studio, 22 Cans. Molyneux recently revealed how he was going about things differently when speaking about the new studio, and with the ‘hiring’ aspect in particular. Giant Bomb report [as cited by GIBiz] that Molyneux has had an enormous spike in applications since he’s…

Crytek Say Crysis 3 More “Spiritual Successor in Gameplay to Crysis 1 Instead of Crysis 2”

EA and Crytek officially unveiled Crysis 3 recently and are now dropping information about the upcoming sci-fi shooter. The first screenshots released showed lush jungles among the buildings of New York, so we gathered that it would be a combination of Crysis 1’s jungle mixed with the urban jungle featured in Crysis 2 which took place in New York City. Interestingly,…

Job Advert Points to Skype and Xbox Collaboration

GamesIndustryBiz has spotted a job advert that suggests Skype could be collaborating with Xbox. Skype is looking to hire a Software Development Engineer for their London office who would be involved in helping to build the “next generations” of their products and technology. “As a member of the Skype Xbox Engineering Team in London, you will have a strong technical background developing client…

Ozone Energy Drink reveals their Clan Sponsorship Tiers

**UPDATE** Please note that this sponsorship is no longer available due to Ozone no longer being available locally. **ORIGINAL** Ozone Energy Drink South Africa made a little announcement a few weeks back about their intention to sponsor South African Gaming Clans – on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.  The interest from clans that sparked has been frankly overwhelming – as…