Mweb Gamezone has announced what it believes will “re-ignite the fires of the competitive console community” in South Africa. If everyone can agree on a ruleset of course. Yes, I said something. Now I’ll shut up and go about the business of reporting. The ISP’s gaming arm has launched the Open Beta Black Ops 2 Ladders for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. While…
The finalists were revealed (well, they had to play for the privilege) over a month ago, but the time is drawing nearer to when they will need to don their red or blue armour again and fight for the prize – a trip to Gamescom 2013. If you want to be part of the finals… you can. **UPDATE** After posting the…
This year’s DoGaming League is set to be the biggest one yet and has received a record-breaking number of entries over the most games “hosted in its history”. This year, the DGL will host 15 games in total, which is made up of 11 different games with a few featured on different platforms and different formats. There will be two StarCraft…
The MSSA has issued a press release regarding this years ‘Nation’s Cup’ for Battlefield 3. The qualifiers for the 2013 tournament are being rushed due to the organisers of the tournament informing the MSSA that teams need to be registered for the ‘Nation’s Cup’ by the 13th of January. A qualifier for the SA team is being held this coming…
The MSSA has announced Robert ‘PandaTank’ Botha as their “2012 Mind Sports Player of the Year”. The StarCraft II player has had a stellar year and was selected – for the second year in a row – to represent South Africa as part of the GIGABYTE Protea eSports Team. He also finished in the top eight at the Electronic Sports…
The final round of games in the Xbox SA presented Halo 4 Tournament happened this past weekend, revealing the finalists who will play to win an all expenses paid trip to Gamescom 2013. The four clans and nine individuals will now have to wait until sometime next year to play at an undisclosed location for the glory in what is…
New local multi-gaming organisation, Energy eSports has announced its arrival on the local scene. Energy eSports includes some known gaming managers and industry leaders such as Matt ‘fluKe’ Merks (owner of PolarfluKe), Rob ‘GrIdL0cK’ Clegg (ex-Pantheon Gaming founder) and Kas ‘CAWA’ Ahmad (Monster Energy gaming team founder and leader). Energy eSports aim to takeSouth African gaming to the “next level,”…
If you happened to miss one of the two FIFA tournaments happening this weekend… shame on you. Some would argue it was actually three events considering there was the Eastwoods FIFA Champs on Saturday and a tournament on Friday and Sunday at GecoSports. Clearly, FIFA gamers on both PS3 and Xbox 360 have plenty to keep them involved, but still…
This past weekend was certainly as good a reason as any to sing “we’re football crazy, we’re football mad” at the top of your voice. Well, virtual football mad anyway. Two (at least two that we were aware of) FIFA events were happening around Cape Town over this past weekend and they were packed with plenty of Real Madrid and…