PS3 Launching soon in SA!
It’s coming! It’s coming! The revolution has started… Following widespread speculation, Ster-Kinekor Games has just announced that Sony’s PLAYSTATION®3 home entertainment-console (PS3) will be on sale in South Africa from 23 March 2007 – in conjunction with the console’s launches in the UK and Australasia. An expected one million PS3 units will be made available during the initial launch period. PS3 is one of the most highly anticipated & sophisticated home entertainment systems to hit the international gaming market. Its features are the first of its kind and also revolutionize features usually associated with gaming consoles. Launching in a sleek black casing designed to enhance the contemporary home entertainment-lifestyle, the PS3 enables games & multimedia to be viewed & experienced in an unparalleled High-Definition environment with top-end audiovisual potential through BlueRay DVD. The system’s revolutionary sensor-sensitive Sixaxis controller can connect up to 7 gamers wirelessly via advanced Bluetooth technology. Apart from being able to play games with the BlueRay DVD system – the next generation of DVD created for High-Definition (HD) TV systems – the PS3 also acts as a standalone high-end BlueRay DVD player (with a 60GB harddrive), provides storage space for personal photos, videos & music, has more speed than the best PC available commercially and also links to the Internet for downloads & gaming interaction. A stellar launch line-up of game titles has been confirmed for PS3, including eagerly awaited titles published by Sony Computer Entertainment such as Resistance: Fall of Man™, MotorStorm™, Genji™: Days of the Blade, FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION and Ridge Racer™ 7. An exceptional range of titles in every genre will also be available at launch from the world’s leading third party publishers, including Electronic Arts, Activision, Namco Bandai, Sega, Take 2, Ubisoft, Vivendi Universal, and Sony Online Entertainment. In addition to games on disc, an exciting range of fully-featured downloadable games will debut on the PLAYSTATION®Network. These will include gaming icons such as Tekken®: Dark Resurrection and Gran Turismo® HD Concept; the fully-featured PS3 debut of the best-selling franchise Gran Turismo, realised with full HD (1080p) visual quality. Created by Polyphony Digital Inc and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Gran Turismo® HD Concept has been downloaded by more than 350 000 users since it was released in December 2006 in North America and Japan. Also available on the PLAYSTATION®Network will be brainteasers such as Go! Sudoku and Go! Puzzle, and innovative games such as Blast Factor™ and flOw™, designed exclusively for PLAYSTATION 3 and delivering on the promise to provide original content created by non-traditional developers and publishers. Selected Sony movie titles are already available in...
Represent’s on the way to TOKYO
MOSHIMOSHI! “Tokyo has more vending machines than any other city in the world, with over 2.5 million selling drinks, and hundreds of thousands more selling cigarettes, batteries, rice, eggs, fishing equipment, flower bouquets, and of course, pornography.” Lonely Planet. You know that we go to the ‘nth’ degree to bring you the Good Life and the most fabulous news of all is that our very own SJ aka the original Editorista will be jetting off to her most favourite fantasy destination TOKYO, JAPAN (thanks to Brutal Fruit!). It’s probably the furthest one can go from South Africa and we cannot wait to find out all about it… She will be blogging from there next week and sending us loads of photos and video’s introducing us to one of the most fascinating cities and cultures on earth. In her quest to fill her itinerary with only the most incredible things to do, SJ came across all kinds of wild and wonderful websites that she wanted to share with you – thanks to Aquoibon for the love, support and info! *SO you know all about 43things.com already – well how about http://www.43places.com/ – it’s a bit like LonelyPLanet’s Thorntree or VirtualTourist where you can post questions about the place that you are visiting and members mail you back. The biggest difference is the rate at which it happens… super fast! Next time you travel just post a question on the place you’re heading to and the answers will appear in your inbox. Oh ja, and if you’re very into South Africa, you can give people answers to their questions on Jozi or Slaapies or wherever…. *The Japanese are reknowned for their incredible sense of aesthetics and their design gurus – some of you will recognise the fashion icons Issey Miyake, Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons and Hanae Mori … We’ll definitely be swinging by at least one of their fabulous headquarters. On the subject of design, check out this bare and sparse hairdressing salon in Tokyo designed by the Isolation Unit – quite a change from our over-the-top bokkie hives. Thanks to Dezeen: “Isolation Unit, the product and interiors company established by designer Teruhiro Yanagihara, has sent us images of a recently completed hair salon in Tokyo. The salon is for fashionable Japanese hairdressing chain Lim and consists of a theatrically minimal installation within the host building’s untreated concrete frame. The project was completed late last year. Photographs are by Takumi Ota.” *Sushi anyone? From Weird Asia news: “Japan as a country never stops amazing us. I am sure you have heard of, or seen the “Nyotaimori” (literally means female body plate),...
We love Sendomatic – your personal RSVP system
Wedding coordinators, events organisers and super control freaks take note….The other day a friend was having a housewarming and instead of sending a boring old email (isn’t email so 2006) she sent us a “sendomatic invitation”… Which in essence is simply an online invitation and RSVP service. So what that means is that you can design your invite for your event online, send it from sendomatic and then have all your RSVP’s automated through it. If you’re RSVP’ing and care about the ‘who’s who’ you can even check out the RSVP list to see which shlebs will be there before you send your reply. FABULOUS! Of course it means that your friends all need to be web fluent or at least have access to email and internet ….and with all good things there comes a price. Well that’s unless you’re norma-no-mates with only 4 friends then you can do it all for free, but from 4 friends up you’re going to pay a fee. Check it out...
Ticket Giveaway: Huge Line- up, Huge Party!
The Edgars Music Series Explodes for Season Finale! Friday the 2nd of March sees the end of the current Edgars Music Series as the organisation gears itself up for a bigger and better new event series towards winter 2007. We are giving away *5 double tickets*. Will you be there? In a break from the current format, the Friday 2 March show will feature a huge, star-studded line-up in a festival atmosphere of short sets, collaborations and musical celebration. A delicious mix of afro-pop, kwaito, hip hop, house and afro-jazz; the line up includes: Kelly Khumalo, Spikiri , KB, Tuks, Slikour, Mo Molemi, Pantsula, Shana, Slick Angel and Dj’s Black Coffee and Zan-D. The Edgars Music series has grown into one of the most sought after live events in Jozi City, and to thank all the public and the artists who have made that a reality Edgars and its partners are pulling out all the stops! There will be special free give-aways for the first 100 guests through the door and there are extra special Edgars hampers on offer for the best dressed people picked out by our Edgars Fashion Police. This is the biggest and best line-up in Jozi on the 2nd of March. With so many artists, the party will be starting early and going late, so make sure you get down to Newtown in good time so as not to be part of the queue that is left outside all night when the best party in town is full! Details: Date: Friday 02 March Place: The Bassline (10 Henry Nxumalo Street, Newtown Music Centre) Featuring: Tuks Kelly Khumalo KB Spikiri Sliq Angel Shana Mo Molemi Slikour Pantsula Shana DJ Zan D and Black Coffee If you would like to be there, please email your name, age, contact number and the names of 4 of the artists that will be performing at the Edgars Music Series Grand Season Finale Party at Bassline this Friday to...
Idols West Africa
Channel 37 is back on DSTV- it’s the Idols channel of course and if you’re a reality TV junkie then you would have already watched hours of the Idols West Africa auditions! The competition started on Sunday February 18, and will end on May 27. The channel will offer about 16 hours of content daily, starting at 08:00 CAT and ending at midnight. Represent will be keeping an eye on the drama that is sure to come with the Idols competition entrants and the fascinating judges Dede Mabiaku, Abrewa Nana and Dan Foster- this trio is more entertaining than the contestants themselves at times. Some of the highlights include the first performer a guy called David who broke down in front of the judges when he was told he would not be moving onto Planet One (the next stage of the competition) and a guy who swore at the judges when he was failed. Click here to check out the Idols West Africa...
Fashion Week: “Vukani Madoda Sekusile!”
Bold colours, vibrancy and Africanism were the main elements of the Vukani Fashions collection. Famous for the design of the “Madiba shirt” back in 1990 Sonwabile Ndamase has been making bold statements ever since. Also, you know those really hot sexy outfits that the SABC ‘Top Sport’ presenters wear? That’s Vukani! Vince checked out the show… The collection by Vukani was very bold with lots of blacks and whites in the beginning making up a collection that I would classify as office wear with a delicious twist. Playful but well designed men’s and women’s denim jackets got the crowd excited and hot polka dot dresses, jacket and skirt seemed to be the order of the day. This collection is a real beauty but definitely not for the faint hearted as you need a bit of boldness to pull some of these off! Colourful silk dresses with trails made a huge entry I just loved the green & white dress with Ndebele beads! Click here to see photos from the show. These images are supplied by Audi Joburg Fashion Week, click here to go to the...
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