Good morning everyone. We trust you all had a great weekend. Let us help you ease into the new week with these titbits of gaming news and videos. PSA: There is PSN maintenance scheduled for later today. The service will be down from 5:40pm BST (6:40pm SA) until 12:50am BST (1:50am) on Tuesday 26 August. [More…] However, it does appear that…
Good morning. Another weekend, and another bullet dodged by the zombies. We got the zombie apocalypse postponed so we could party this week. You can thank us later. Games In case you were wondering, and you’re concerned by these sort of things, Metro: Redux runs at 1080p on the PS4 and 900p on the Xbox One. However, both run at…
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…
Good morning. Trust you all had a splendid weekend? Good. Now let’s kick off another week in the best fashion possible. Gaming new and videos. Games The US PSN has joined today’s PSN maintenance downtime. The EU PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance for around six hours on Monday 27 January. PSN will be down from 5.30pm to 11.30pm GMT / 6.30pm to…
Good morning everyone. It’s Friday, so it’s good to be alive right? Not that we’d know of course… Games The EU PlayStation Network will be down for maintenance for around six hours on Monday 27 January. PSN will be down from 5.30pm to 11.30pm GMT / 6.30pm to 00.30am CET / 7.30pm to 01.30am SA Time. Ten more user-generated jobs for GTA…
Good morning. An oddly quiet news wrap today… Games The Dark Souls 2 Achievements have been revealed. Some contain spoilers, so only visit Exophase if you’re desperate to see what you have to do to score your 1000GS. A Dead Rising 3 update is now available for Xbox One. While the update weighs in at that size, it replaces previous…
We actually missed the news yesterday, that sadly, 505 Games has cancelled Ashes Cricket 2013. The previous Ashes was actually pretty decent, but the developers were using a new engine for 2013. MCV now report that the developers couldn’t get its new engine to work. Here’s the full statement from 505 Games [via MCV]: “As most people who have followed…
Good morning. It’s the day US retailers go discount crazy. It’s the day Europe gets the PS4. For South Africa, it’s just another Friday. Hardware The mandatory PS4 update – version 1.51 – is now available in Europe. The 300MB update can be done when you hook your machine up to the internet or via Sony’s website and saved to a USB…
New week, new, erm, news. Shall we get to it then? Pre-order GTA 5 on Xbox 360 via the Microsoft Store website and score yourself 1600MS Points for free. Of course, the offer is limited “while supplies last” and most likely only available in America. [via Kotaku] Ninja Theory is planning something. A tease via the developer’s official Twitter feed said: “Looking forward to…
You should all remember to take a minute of silence as Sony has confirmed that they have ceased worldwide production of the PlayStation 2 – not just in Japan as originally thought. The news was confirmed via The Guardian. The PS2 launched in 2000 and sold 150m units globally.