Cwi Nqani’s brush with video game greatness could’ve been mapped on the plot points of The Air Up There, Cool Runnings or The Gods Must Be Crazy or really any shallow movie where people from different cultures collide in an explosion of hilarity. As reported by CNN, the 32-year-old was selling his rural ethnic group’s crafts in Namibia’s capital city of Windhoek next to a tent where a World Cyber Games representative was hosting the country’s national championships. Despite never seeing or playing digital games before, Nqani was the only person to play the Asphalt 6 mobile racing game, which automatically qualified him for a spot in the world finals. Those finals happened two weeks ago. More »
All versions of Samsung’s new 830 series SSD drives will come with a free copy of Batman: Arkham City, the company’s vice president said during a press conference tonight. More »
Nowadays TVs are doing more than ever before. Panasonic and Samsung have both announced that their future televisions will feature “app stores” built in, stores which include… video games. Is this the future? Can you imagine a world without consoles, a world in which games are streamed directly through your TV? I say ‘no’. Nick Broughall from Gizmodo says ‘yes’. What say you? More »
So the iPad 2 hits Australia this Friday, and we’ve already had the price confirmed – the only question that remains is ‘should we bother buying one? It’s becoming increasingly clear that the iPad is being fashioned as a gaming device, but is it a compelling games device? This is the question myself and Gizmodo’s Nick Broughall have been discussing all day – and this is the result… More »
The first wave of Windows Phone 7 devices kicks off with the November 8 release of the Samsung Focus in North America, with eight more Xbox Live-ready devices making it to market worldwide in time for the Christmas holidays. More »
Samsung’s television commercial for its new Galaxy 5 phone has a lot of people thinking Halo when they watch it. More »
