Here in sunny South Africa we’re generally a sports-mad bunch. Many a Saturday afternoon is whiled away, sat around a screen, with beer and biltong consumed in disproportionate amounts. Where we falter in our enthusiasm is with regards to winter sports.

This is, of course, mostly due to geography – but it’s hard to get excited when we, unlike Jamaica, don’t even have a bobsleigh team. The 2010 winter Olympics begin this Friday in Vancouver, and as with most such events it comes with its own videogame. Let’s take a look and see if Vancouver 2010 holds the gold at the podium, or crashes headfirst into the icy snow below.

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Just last week, I wrote a post about Mass Effect 2 getting some free DLC soon.

Well “soon” has arrived and while I am not sure if this will be the only free DLC coming, it’s coming today, and for the price of sweet nothing, it’s the perfect price for me.

The free DLC will be delivered via the Cerberus Network and will add a shiny new set of armour as well as a new Shotgun to Commander Shepard’s closet.

Info and another pic after the jump.

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An Australian pirate by the name of James Burt has been ordered by a court to pay Nintendo the staggering sum of one and a half million Australian dollars, "to compensate Nintendo for the loss of sales revenue caused by the individual’s actions."

His crime? He released an early copy of Super Mario Bros Wii on to the internet, ensuring it would find its way into its underbelly, and eventually be downloaded “many thousands of times,” according to Nintendo’s Australian representation. He had the game available for download from November 6th, despite the game only officially being available from the 12th.

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Every now and then, a videogame comes along that changes everything that you thought you knew about gaming. A game so epic, so magnificent, so deep and so emotional that you are blown back in the realization that a new era of gaming is upon us.

Unfortunately, we didn’t receive a review copy of Karaoke Revolution, so we opted to review Mass Effect 2 instead.

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So January was a bit lean when it came to competitions but we are back in the full swing of things now with Megarom jumping on board with a pretty awesome Bioshock 2 bundle to give away this month.

First the important bits, what are you going to win?

In this the first major competition of 2010 you stand the chance of winning the following

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I love NFL, I really do, I watch it whenever I get the chance (go Steelers). I also know that 99% of you don’t watch NFL, which means that a bunch of you don’t even know what the Super Bowl is.

All you need to know is that the Super Bowl is the NFL finals, and that an absolute truck ton of people watch it (over 100 million), which means that advertising space sells for a round $3,000,000.00 per 30 second slot.

This year, Jerry Bruckheimer and his marketing pals saw it fit to spend a ton of money promoting the upcoming game-to-movie adaptation of Prince of Persia, featuring Brokeback Jake Gyllenhaal.

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This week’s Xbox Live deal of the week has a little more deal in its deal than usual.

This week, you get to pick from a selection of 3 different fighting games and to be honest, I couldn’t care less about two of them. The first two are Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao and TMNT: Turtles In Time Reshelled for 800 and 400 MS points respectively.

That’s nice dear. I’m pretty interested in what’s behind door number 3, and that’s Marvel vs Capcom 2 which has been slashed from 1200 MS points to 800.

Will any of you be picking up any of these? I sense some interest in TMNT.

Remember, Gold members only. More info through here. (thanks Major Nelson)

The Nintendo execs have been dropping hints again about a new piece of hardware currently in development over at Nintendo HQ.

At the moment there is absolutely nothing solid about what the piece of hardware is but the current top guesses are a motion controlled DS and a Wii HD.

Personally a motion controlled DS sounds incredibly stupid and a Wii HD sounds entirely logical so I am going for the second one.

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Unfortunately us poor souls down South aren’t allowed to get our hands on Bioshock 2 until Friday as we apparently still feel that Friday’s the best release day of the week. However over in America they are pretty much set on the Tuesday release and as such all the International sites have their reviews up right now…

So let’s take a look at whether we should be getting our wallets out come Friday or give it a skip…

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The Aliens franchise holds a special, horrifying, place in my heart and while I was never going to be picking up this game for myself I did really hope it would be awesome.

Unfortunately last weeks demo’s glitches appear to be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to failings in this latest revival of this series.

GameInformer has released the first review of the game and with comments like

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[Beneath here be spoilers]

You know how in Mass Effect 2 you could import your character from the first game, bringing with it some extra cash, some resources, a level or two – and all your moral choices?

Notice how in the loading screens for Mass Effect 2, it says that you’ll be able to export your character to the last game in the current Mass Effect trilogy? that may not necessarily be the case, according to Bioware.

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It’s all in how things are controlled. that’s how Peter Molyneux,  over-hyping grand champion, sees the world. It wasn’t the microprocessor that revolutionised the Pc, according to Molyneux – no, it was the mouse.

“IF you’re thinking Natal is going to give you another version of an FPS, you’re just not thinking broadly enough. After all, it was the invention of the mouse that gave us computing as it is today – not the invention of the microprocessor. That’s how we ended up controlling our PCs.”

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GT5 Prologue was pretty much widely accepted as a teaser, taster or demo of the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 and as such there were some people claiming that it shouldn’t have been charged for.

I personally thought it was a bit cheeky to charge so much for a snippet of the real game but if people are willing to pay for it then why not?

So how many did they sell? Well according to Polyphony Digital they managed to shift 4.6 Million copies of it… That’s right, 4.6 million people were happy to pay for a demo of Gran Turismo…

I have no more words, check the full graph for all the carnage.

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Console rivalries have existed for about as long as consoles have are indeed a silly thing, and the first BioShock is in the position of having been a great source of fuel to its fire this generation. Once an Xbox 360 exclusive (on consoles, at least) and reviled by PS3 owners – until it found its way to their platform of choice and went from being crap to brilliant.

Creative director for BioShock 2, 2K Marin’s Jordan Thomas has – after prodding by Destructoid – lashed out at the needless console war that exists in fanboys hearts and minds.

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Rockstar Team Bondi’s upcoming gritty, film noire inspired crime drama is no longer exclusive to the PS3, it seems. When they spoke of the project, all the way back in 2004, Team Bondi president Brendan McNamara said the game would be a PS3 exclusive, saying “The project is wholly funded by Sony Computer Entertainment America. We have a long-term exclusive arrangement with SCEA.”

Fast forward to 2010, and the latest issue of GameInformer says different.  Matthew Kato of GameInformer has confirmed the game’s multiplatform status, saying “It’s not a PS3-exclusive. It was at one point, but it’s coming out for the PS3 and 360.”

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