Early next year, Halo 5 players will find their franchise getting a little love when Halo South Africa and the Maverick Gaming venue host a 4v4 tournament. We’re old fans of the franchise at Zombiegamer. Halo and Gears of War were the titles that got us competing and even hosting events. 2016 was probably Halo 5’s big year with numerous…
It is heating up in gaming around SA. Plenty happening and we reckon it’s just the start. While we wait for everything to be announced, here’s what you may have missed recently: Zombiegamer: Telkom Digital Gaming League (DGL) | Sapphire Showdown Zombiegamer: GINX eSports TV coming to DStv 1 May Zombiegamer: ACGL announce a season of tournaments Zombiegamer: Mettlestate Samsung Galaxy CS:GO Championship Details…
Our sister organisation, ACGL, has announced season one of their regular online tournaments which incorporates a number of console competitive standards along with a number of lesser supported titles locally. All tournaments are free to enter and will be one night cups that start at 19h00. The first tournaments will be hosted on 15 March and there will be (almost…
Yes, that’s another week gone in the SA gaming scene, but the good news is that there’s another one (and more) still to come, so catch up here and remember to keep catching up here, because doing so will make the zombies happy, and happy zombies are friendly zombies. Here are a few things from elsewhere that you may have missed:…
ACGL has announced their festive season festival of madness. Well, we called it that, they have officially dubbed it the XP Festival. The series of free-to-enter tournaments will offer players a variety of titles and platforms to play and will give players XP in return. This is in theory an ongoing test of the XP system and leaderboard that will…
Every week we try to come up with a snappy, clever or workable introduction to the SA Gaming News Wrap. 171 editions in, we’re pretty much out of ideas. So here’s the weekly SA Gaming News Wrap. Some local articles from elsewhere that you may have missed: Zombiegamer: Ster Kinekor have really come to the Playstation VR party! Brainwavez: Video And Photo…
With the year starting to reach its end, the activities in South Africa can be expected to slow down a little. However, as long as there is something happening, we will be there to tell you about it. Here’s a few things from other local sites about other local things you may have missed: Geek Node: Call of Duty Infinite launch…
So it’s the weekend of EGE and, well, a few other things too. But EGE mainly. If you’re looking to sign up for EGE events you can find all the links right here. Meanwhile, this is what happened around the local internet about local gaming while you weren’t (possibly) looking: Zombiegamer: SA eSports | Scheduled Matches 25-31 July 2016 Zombiegamer: UPDATE |…
This week, we’re a little behind schedule, but we’re still going to bring you the local news because that’s what we do. We would like to take a moment to honour a local eSports fallen hero. Liam ‘Pontofalax’ Lehle (a Dota 2 player for Damage Control) passed away earlier this week due to liver failure. Our thoughts go out to his family and…
This past weekend, a number of titles hosted their pre-expo qualifier tournaments which secured a few players spots at the finals in their various games. The Black Ops 3, Halo 5 and FIFA 16 all saw their conclusions happen with the top teams and players becoming the next batch to gain auto top seed berths after the recent ESWC qualifiers.…