Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand has announced that after five days of gruelling   training, New Zealand’s first-ever representative at the GT Academy has come home. 19 year old Wellington student, Tony Autridge, has been eliminated along with nine others from the GT Academy in Silverstone, UK. Despite his early elimination, Tony describes his time at the GT Academy as a once in a lifetime opportunity that he will never for...
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In a recent interview Valve's  Chet Falisze, a writer for the designers of Half life, The Orange Box and Left-4-dead series, is quoted to have remarked: "We thought that the Orange Box didn't put our best foot forward with the PS3 community. We don't want to do something like that again on the PS3. We want to give PS3 owners the best possible experience. "Some of that will come from us learning and getting better. Before we can go ...
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The journey through Hell begins today. Visceral Games, an Electronics Arts Inc.  studio, today announced that Dante’s Inferno™ is now available in New Zealand for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system.  With scores of 90 from both PLAY Gamer Magazine in the UK and Official PlayStation Magazine in Italy, the birthplace of Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno is being praised by criti...
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Posted on Rockstar's own blog recently was the following Q an A's...good news for PS3 owners The question posed was, “I was highly anticipating the release of The Ballad Of Gay Tony, but just found out that it is only on the XBox360. I am certain that I am not the first person to ask this, but how come it wasn’t released on the PS3?” Which Rockstar replied, “We know that it continues to be an often-asked question – and believe us, w...
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The ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) in Britain have rated the new PS3 game Heavy ain 'Mature' stating the game contains Nudity & Sexual Content among other things. Given the outcry over Mass Effect's risque content expect some news on this one. Whether it's justified or not is subjective but fact remains the line between movies and games are becoming increasingly blurred. Below is the ESRB summary of the sexual and nudity content....
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PS3 firmware 3.10 has just been released and along with it comes plenty of new exciting feature to the PlayStation 3. We’ve got the rundown of all the new features available in the latest firmware update. Here is the full change list, please let us know if we’ve missed anything and we will update as necessary: Added the ability to access some Facebook features from the XMB. Added the option to automatically send updates to ...
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Just over the last few weeks the VGNZ offices have been hit with some very interesting rumors regarding Grand Theft Auto 5. Some of these include: GTA5 this time will be based in London, the game will carry a 3 month exclusive to PlayStation 3 and finally the release date will be October 2010. As we state these are only rumors we've heard through different sources and nothing official from Rockstar or Take 2!...
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It doesn't feel that long ago since Infamous released on the PS3, and this week its already going Platinum to retail for the hot new price of $59.99. This game has been a VGNZ favorite game for us here, and we would highly recommend picking this title up if you haven't played it already! Lets just hope we see an Infamous 2 releasing some time in 2010! Have you played Infamous, if so let us know what you think by posting in the forums. Were you a ...
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One piece of news we heard today at VGNZ which surprised us was that the 360 version of Tekken 6 which released last week, was out selling and renting the PS3 version! With the Tekken 6 series being such a PlayStation dominated franchise, we found this very hard to believe. Later this week we will be receiving GfK reports which will show us in black and white if this is the case. The news we heard today was from major retailers throughout the cou...
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One of the biggest games for 2009 will be launching and selling in less than a couple of hours! Modern Warfare 2 is due for release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. There will also be a Wii version available but this will be known as Modern Warfare: Reflex. VGNZ has been talking to key retailers and rental stores through out the country and heard positive feed back with most stores receiving their stock as early as Friday. Surprisingly no o...
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