Xbox Gaming in South Africa

Earlier today, exciting news broke that Microsoft has officially launched dedicated Gears of War 3 servers in South Africa, bringing with it the first locally hosted servers on Xbox LIVE. It can now be confirmed that the Mweb is providing the much needed hosting infrastructure in association with GameServers.com.

"We know there are a lot of South African gamers playing Gears of War 3, so we’re really excited about making servers available to GameServers.com," says Desmond Kurz, online gaming manager at MWEB. "With these servers deployed locally, players will no longer experience the higher latencies associated with connecting to international servers, which should make the game play experience so much better."

The introduction of local game servers brings with it much needed stability and improved performance, and hopefully will pave the way for more locally hosted servers for future games.

"To our knowledge, this Gears of War 3 dedicated server is the first locally hosted console game server in South Africa and we hope that this will be the start of a trend in which console game publishers and providers increase their footprint in the SA market." says Kurz. "MWEB will actively pursue such opportunities to improve the online gaming experience for local players."