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Video Game Awards nominees announced

Nominees for the best games and developers are now available

Local Quake Live server confirmed

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Internet Solutions confirms that it is hosting local Quake Live server

Gratuitous Space Battles released

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Expect loads of ‘zap!’ ‘boom!’ and ‘ka-pow!’ from this new space battle sim

EA hooks Playfish

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US videogame publisher Electronic Arts announced on Monday it has acquired London-based social network game maker Playfish in a deal that could be worth up to 400 million dollars.

This year’s biggest gaming hits

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Which titles are expected to be most popular this festive season?

Wii sales lose momentum

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Japanese video game and console maker Nintendo Co. reports fiscal first half earnings on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.

SA gets limited edition black Wii

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Black Wii console coming to SA in November

Impulse buying drives second-hand game market

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Gamers continue to purchase despite the recession, and the second hand market is booming

Wii Fit Plus hits SA shelves

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Next installment of Wii fitness game released late October

Sony to launch new Playstation 3

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To give more room for game, movie and music downloads, Sony is launching a PlayStation 3 with a larger hard drive on Nov. 3.

Videogame taking players to Hell

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US videogame titan Electronic Arts (EA) said Friday that an acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter has tackled the story line for a videogame taking players into Dante's Inferno.

"Project Runway" to become Wii game

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Project Runway is strutting to Nintendo's Wii.

Plan to ban video games

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Shouts of "Kill him! Kill him!" ring out as the preteens train their virtual assault rifles on the last remaining terrorist and spray him with bullets. Blood splatters. The enemy collapses. And they cheerfully wrap up another game of "Counter-Strike."

rAge LAN 2009 sets record

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Millions of rands worth of equipment and thousands of gamers attended the Woodstock of gaming