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Second Pure Football competition winner announced

Friday, 18 June 2010 Henry Dowling

After no-one claimed the second copy of Pure Football from our "Guess the Score" competition, we decided to hide a link on the site for one sharp-eyed reader to find and score the prize. It took a couple of hours for someone to spot it, but we have our winner ...

Get access to the Medal of Honor multiplayer beta in South Africa

Thursday, 17 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

Earlier in the week, EA announced a multiplayer beta for the upcoming military shooter Medal of Honor. As it goes these days, the multiplayer beta is only open to those who pre-order the game from selected retailers. And guess what? South Africa is included ...

Reminder: Pure Football & SBK X Championship competitions closing soon

Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

Just a quick reminder to anyone who hasn't yet entered into our superb competition giveaways that time is running out ...

Xbox LIVE in South Africa: What we know so far

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

In the wake of the recently announced Xbox LIVE service for South Africa, XG fired off a couple of questions to product and marketing manager for Xbox 360 in South Africa, Yvette van Rooyen, to find out a little more about the much anticipated online service. This is what we've learned so far ...

Xbox LIVE launching in South Africa on 26 October [Rumour]

Tuesday, 15 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

Ok. I've marked this as a rumour, but only because I haven't yet received confirmation from Microsoft SA, who all seem to be in meetings at the moment (hopefully working on our migration problem). According to a trusted news outlet, TechCentral, Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox LIVE will launch in South Africa on 24 October ...

Microsoft: Xbox LIVE coming to South Africa [Update 2]

Monday, 14 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

During Microsoft's E3 2010 press conference, corporate vice president for Xbox LIVE Marc Whitten announced that Microsoft will be bringing Kinect and Xbox LIVE to every country that the Xbox 360 is sold in. This includes countries such as Brazil, Greece, Poland, Russia, and of course, South Africa ...

Guess the score between South Africa vs Uruguay & win Pure Football

Friday, 11 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

We've already had ourselves a thrilling encounter between South Africa and Mexico, and I suspect we're in for another treat against Uruguay next week. Not only that, Ubisoft SA has given us yet another copy of Pure Football for the Xbox 360 to giveaway to one lucky entrant who can guess the final score between the two sides ...

First Pure Football 'Guess the Score' winner announced

Friday, 11 June 2010 Steven De Klerk

First off, what a brilliant match. It could have gone either way, and South Africa nearly pulled it out of the bag. Anyways, the match may have ended up as a draw (which actually isn't a bad start), but we're going to make a winner out of one lucky South African anyways ...

First Pure Football 'Guess the Score' competition closes at 4PM today!

Friday, 11 June 2010 Henry Dowling

The opening game of the first FIFA World Cup tournament to be held on African soil kicks off in a matter of hours, and excitement is bubbling over into the streets of our nation. Since you are all in the grips of football fever, we thought we should just remind you that if you want to stand a chance of winning a copy of Pure Football you only have until 4PM to guess the final score of the opening game ...

Xbox LIVE Summer of Football and free weekend coming up

Thursday, 10 June 2010 Tarryn van der Byl

Looking to get your footy on? You don't even have to leave your couch or anything, because Microsoft is all about the "Summer of Football". Which is actually our "Winter of Football" ...