Razer has announced that local Xbox MVP GlennZA has joined their partnership ranks. GlennZA – real name Glenn Alexander – was one of the folk behind the 2upGamers series of events and has always been an active community member, especially in the Xbox scene. Since 2upGamers, he has gone from being an Xbox Ambassador to and Xbox MVP, started the…
Apex Interactive has announced their partnership with Samkelo ‘Samplayze’ Khoza. This appears to mean that the South African YouTuber, tournament host and organisation owner will get “some new toys” from the team at Apex Interactive. We further assume that the ‘Messiah of Tech’ will give his (hopefully unbiased) views on said tech. More on the announcement, along with relevant links can…
It seems to be a busy period for local gamers with a variety of events both complete and on the horizon. If you need to stay in the know, you can always catch up with it all in our weekly wrap up of local activities. Some local news from around the internet that you may have missed: Zombiegamer: Profiled: GameFaceZA GLHF:…
A few weeks back, a number of Plantronics headsets were sent our way by local distributor Apex Interactive. We greedily started testing them and enjoyed them so much we forgot to give one away. We lie actually. We didn’t really want to give any away because they made our head feel complete. Anyway, after much throwing of fits we managed…
Here’s something I’m pretty willing to bet you didn’t expect to see when you woke up this morning. The SEGA Mega Drive will be available to buy again in South Africa this month. It will be available for a pretty tempting RRP of R1499.95 and will come with 80 built-in games including the three original Mortal Kombat games, Shinobi III, Streets Of Rage (1-3), Ecco and…
You can tell it’s reaching the end point of the year. Tournaments and events are all taking a well earned break, but there’s still a few things happening (and that have happened) around SA. Here’s a few things you may have missed over the last week (and a bit): Win R1000 credit for CheapCodes Win a Razer Bundle Cape Town…
Another week has come and gone in the SA gaming community and that means we got your covered on the happenings right here. SteelSeries SteelSeries is planning to become the major player in South African eSports by offering “up to 30% off on any purchase of high performance SteelSeries gaming gear” in July. More details, as well as participating retailers, can…
Good day South Africa. Want to know what’s coming up in the next week or so, or what has been happening over the last week or so? Then you only need read below. Sales Kalahari currently has a few items on sale that may sate your hunger for more gaming than is healthy, but who are we to stop you.…
EA South Africa (and we will assume Microsoft and Xbox South Africa too) have cancelled Titanfall for South African gamers, citing poor online performance rates in the country. The news was broken (cowardly, in this writer’s opinion) via a Facebook post, which reads: After conducting recent online tests for Titanfall, we found that the performance rates in South Africa were not…
MWEB Gamezone – in conjunction with sponsors Gioteck and Apex Interactive – have announced the Battlefield 4 First Recon single elimination tournament for both the Xbox 360 and the PC. The maximum number of teams that will be allowed on each platform is 32, but MWEB Gamezone have stated that they reserve the right to cancel the tournaments if a…