Cape Town, South Africa – 12 December, 2019 – Tencent Africa’s focus on local gaming continues from its recent release of dedicated African servers to include Africa’s first exclusive in-game item. The limited-time item is a parachute with an African continent detail in white against a PUBGM orange and black backdrop with the hashtag #AFRICAUNITE emblazoned across it. The special…
“We are very excited to announce PUBG MOBILE LITE, a mobile game that will give more players access to one of the world’s most popular gaming franchises,” says Tramayne Monaghan, Chief Innovation Officer at Tencent Africa. “With this slimmed down version of PUBG MOBILE, gamers in emerging markets can now play this game on more devices than was possible before.” PUBG…
South African Call of Duty, Overwatch and PUBG players have until 11 January 2019 to register their teams for the Smartcall leagues. The leagues are born from the recent R10 million partnership agreement announced between Mettlestate and Smartcall. A total prize pool of R10,000 per title is on offer across ‘Pro’ and ‘Open’ divisions. The prize pool breakdown can be found below. The…
We’re in the heart of the busy season now with gaming events pretty much happening every week until mid-October. If you want to keep in the loop, we’d say making our weekly wrap part of your must-visits would be… very kind of you. See, we appreciate you. And your brains. Up first, tournament registrations for EGE 2018 have started opening.…
Get your weekly dose of local gaming news here and now. Upcoming events and more drawn from around the country so you don’t have to do the leg work yourself. And first, here’s the news you may have missed from elsewhere: ACGL: Rush Esports 2018 Goes Large Esports Central: VS Gaming Overwatch Leg 3 Prem Div. results wrap-up Esports Central: Quick Hit: MSI…
See that in the rear view mirror? That’s the last week that went racing by and is disappearing into the distance. If you don’t take the time to stop and see what’s happening in the local scene, you will soon find yourself in 2019 wondering where this year went. Here are a few things you may have missed elsewhere this…
The year has only just got rolling and there have already been some intriguing announcements from the local esports scene. Bravado Gaming have announced their plans to head to the USA for a year and ACGL have plenty of tournament and LAN action planned. Read more about it all below. In the meanwhile, here are a few articles you may…
Orena has been the most active PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) host in South Africa with weekly custom nights for players to jump in, have some fun and claim a chicken dinner. However, with the competitive element of the game picking up worldwide, they have recently announced a more competitive scrim night for those keen to still win a chicken dinner. But…
Welcome to the first South African Gaming News Wrap of 2018. We hope you all had a great festive season and are raring to go, as we suspect it is going to be a busy year. To start with, we’ve announced our UCON plans which include Call of Duty, FIFA and the Ultimate Gamer. Over on ACGL, this weekend sees…
This review is an unedited version of the review written by Zombie Dredd and published in the Tech Magazine: Issue 50 October 2017. In recent times there has been a new phrase in gaming that injects both fear and fervour in equal measure – Early Access. Essentially you get to pay a fee to become a game’s beta tester. You…