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…
But why exactly is this newsworthy you ask? Because Do Gaming League has decided to change its stance slightly regarding its exclusion of a FIFA 13 league on Xbox 360 next year. Last week the League decided to announce a PS3 only FIFA 13 league and generally appeared to shift its focus otherwise on PC gaming for next year’s leagues. …
… Because we care. Really. We do. So we thought we’d give you a little update on what’s happening at the moment in the console competitive and even social scene. However, there is always some bad news to go with the good news, so shall we start with the bad stuff first? Bad stuff It appears that FIFA 13 on…
South Africa’s Robert ‘PandaTank’ Botha – dedicated StarCraft II player – is once again heading off to do battle with international players, this time at the Electronics Sports World Championships in Paris. Following good showings at the 2011 and 2012 IeSF World championships, Rob received an invite to participate in the prestigious Championship which will take place from 2 November…