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eGameFame: Mario — The World’s Most Renowned Plumber

eGameFame has taken a left-turn down character lane. And with this, we will take you down and deep into the rabbit hole. eGameFame will embrace the world of videogame characters, [...]

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eGameFame: David Jaffe — Creator Of God Of War And Twisted Metal

The man who unleashed one of the craziest characters, and also one of the most badass heroes in gaming history. Meet David Jaffe, the creative director at Sony Computer Entertainment [...]

eGameFame: Ed Boon — Mortal Kombat Dev

If there is one game that stuck in our heads from childhood, it has to be Mortal Kombat. The legendary MK brought all the guts, gore and action we needed [...]

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PolarfluKe: Overmind Over Matter

PolarfluKe are at it again. They have just made an announcement that they will be hosting another tournament. With the success of PolarfluKe Released,  and most recently PolarfluKe 10/10/10 under [...]

eGameFame: Don Daglow — The Man Behind Neverwinter Nights

Creator Neverwinter Nights, a game that pioneered the way we play with other people online. One of three people to receive the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award. Programmer, game designer [...]

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eGameFame: Chris Metzen

An artist in many fields, a man with many talents: From voice acting to scripting he has done it all. This is Chris Metzen and he works for Blizzard Entertainment. [...]

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rAge 2010: The NAG LAN

The first weekend of October, year in and year out, see’s the biggest LAN happening in South Africa, if not Africa. With around 2000+ gamers converging for a weekend of [...]

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eGameFame: John Romero — The Father Of Deathmatch

This is the man who coined the term “deathmatch”. And created Doom, Quake, Heretic and Wolfenstein 3D. All of these games are legendary in their own right where each spawned [...]

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eGameFame: Mike Morhaime — The Blizzard Co-Founder And CEO

Meet Mike Morhaime. A man well known and fondly remembered for his announcement of StarCraft 2 back in 2007. For those of you unfamiliar with Mike Morhaime, he’s the co-founder [...]

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PolarfluKe presents 10/10/10 — Not Just Any StarCraft 2 Tournament

PolarfluKe are becoming popular with the local Starcraft 2 scene as they are currently host loads of tournaments with cool prizes to win. With the date 10/10/10 incoming, they have [...]

eGameFame — Will Wright: The Creator Of The Sims

The Sims, a game that with its sequel and expansions has sold around a 100 million copies, was created to offer simulation and evolution in gaming. With this in mind [...]

PolarFluke Released: A Rundown

This weekend saw “fluKe” hosting the very first online StarCraft 2 tournament with prizes. With over 100 people registered and over 300 games needed to be played this looked to [...]

PolarFluke Tournament This Weekend

The local Starcraft 2 scene just seems to be exploding. After last week’s Megarom exhibition tournament which featured tons of prizes, it’s safe to say that the local scene is [...]

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eGameFame: Sid Meier

Hailed as the creator of one the greatest franchises in RTS history, his name is Sid Meier and he started the Civilization franchise — a game that pitted the player [...]

Starcraft 2 Launch Exhibition

For those who do not know Starcraft 2 has been going around like wild fire. Being a new game and with everyone’s interest in it companies are stepping forward to [...]

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eGameFame — Blizzard’s Infamous StarCraft

To celebrate the launch of StarCraft 2, we are doing this weeks eGameFame on the popular title. Where did it come from and what made it a masterpiece? StarCraft is [...]

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eGameFame: Peter Molyneux — Creator Of ‘God Games’

Creating games such as Dungeon Siege, Populous, Black and White and the famed Fable franchise, this man is no small figure in the gaming industry. So, without further ado we [...]

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eGameFame: John D Carmack, King Of FPS

Many consider this man, who to this day still continues to influence the gaming industry, to be the father of the FPS genre. “Who is he?” you might ask? His [...]

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Review: Asus G51 Gaming Laptop

When I heard about the Asus G51 being the younger brother to the very impressive G71 I had thoughts that it might lack power where it would not be able [...]

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eGameFame: Warren Spector

His name is Warren Spector and to that say he is the founder of FPS RPG is not going overboard. Yes, I know I said that Shigeru Miyamoto is the [...]

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eGameFame: Shigeru Miyamoto — The Father Of Mario & Zelda

This week we bring to you the creator of the Zelda franchise and the father of modern platformers–to a degree. His name is Shigeru Miyamoto and he is a legendary [...]

eGameFame: Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen — Emperor of the Orcs

His name is Manuel “Grubby” Schenkhuizen and he is one of the best Warcraft 3 players in the world. Hailing from Netherlands  rival to Moon, he is probably the best [...]

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eGameFame — SK-Gaming: Been There Done That

SK-Gaming, one of the top MGO’s in the world, is the topic of today’s discussion. Before your brain goes into overtime trying to figure out what SK stands for, I [...]

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eGameFame: Time to Meet Your Makers

If Meet Your Makers are known for a game, it has to be Warcraft 3. More specifically, their original Warcraft 3 squad, which was rated as one the best Warcraft [...]

[UPDATE]eGameFame: Fnatic’s Of Gaming

This week we will take a look at one of the top ranked gaming organizations in the world. Who are they and what do they do, you might ask? Well, [...]

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Counter Strike: Source Update Incoming

Valve has announced that they are launching an extensive update to Counter-Strike: Source. This update is in beta and you can go give it a try. So what does this [...]

eGameFame: The Ubisoft Frag Dolls

In a world where “bitch, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich” is a common sentence to girls; the main question is, what did they do to [...]

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Halo Reach, Over A Million In Beta

When Bungie announced that May the third would see the beta opened up a bit more tons of people got very excited. Just how many is that tons of players [...]

eGameFame: Ettienne “DaeJaVoo” Venter — It Ain’t Cool Enough For Him

Ettienne believes that if it’s stock, it ain’t good enough. His desire and passion has made him one of the best modders in South Africa. His full name is Ettienne [...]

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Steam coming to Mac

We received a email from Valve stating that Steam will be landing on Macs on the 12th of May. Not much else is said in the press release except that [...]