EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: capetown
(South African online retailer Kalahari.com recently held a midnight launch event to celebrate the release of the latest and greatest RPG from Blizzard, Diablo III.
The event took place at Gandalf’s in Observatory, Cape Town and Rashaad Abrahams was there for El33tonline to drink in the atmosphere and write about his experiences at the gathering.)
It was the evening of May 14th and I was walking down a street in Observatory. As the mist started rolling in, I could see a light at the end of the road - a bright yellow light that seemed like a glimmer of hope the night before the ‘Return of Evil’ was set to dawn upon us.
Fellow gamer Abz and I entered the abyss and as we heard some great music being played, we decided to stay a while and listen…
On Monday, the date and time for 2upGamers’ fifth gaming event was confirmed, while we also discovered the whopping line-up of guests slated to appear at this week’s gathering - 2upGamers’ 5th Round hits Cape Town this Friday, May 4th, starting at 6:30pm at the Rygersdal Sports Club in Rondebosch and, guess what?
Registration for the event is now open.
In terms of birthdays, April 30th is an auspicious date indeed and marks the beginnings of great members of history and our society, including royalty, sportsmen, artists and talented entertainers.
How about King Philip III of France (1245), Louise of Lorraine (1553), Queen Mary II of England (1662) and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1909).
Don’t forget Austrian inventor Hans List (1896)!
Then there’s also South African rally driver Francis Tucker (1923) and Australian cricketer Ian Healy (1964) to consider, as well as rapper Lloyd Banks (1982) and actress Kirsten Dunst (1982). What about Tom Fulp (1978), the mysterious founder of Newgrounds and The Behemoth?
Who else was born on April 30th?
El33tonline friend and reader Garth Stuurman! Also known (and feared) as GaaTY on El33tonline and on Xbox LIVE, Garth’s birthday isn’t going quite as well as it should, so send him a hearty ‘Happy Birthday’ and message him on Twitter, too!
Happy Birthday Garth!
2upGamers may have already brought you a bounty of gaming nirvana last week with its Prototype 2 launch event in Cape Town, but Glenn Alexander and the team will be doing it all over again this week with the ‘5th Round’ at the Rygersdal Sports Club.
There have been plenty of midnight launches held at brick and mortar game stores in South Africa to celebrate the arrival of a new console or massive software release. However, up until now an online retail company has never held one in SA. Thankfully that’s all about to change with the announcement that kalahari.com will host a Diablo III midnight launch on May 14th.
Last Friday’s 2upGamers 4th Dimension event was another great success for participating sponsors, speakers and attendees alike. Held at Rygersdal Sports Club in Rondebosch Cape Town, the 4th 2upGamers meeting was attended by around 80 people and saw prizes with a collective value of R40 000 being given away!
This Friday past, March 2nd, had the Cape Town gaming scene buzzing with excitement courtesy of the biggest and best 2upGamers thus far, the 4th Dimension.
Hosted at the Rygersdal Sports Club in Rondebosch Cape Town, the 4th Dimension garnered the second largest audience yet and up to 80 attendees were present and ready for the awesome line-up that 2upGamers had in store.
Speakers featured were Cape Town Showdown, Clan Connection and GamerNET, and awesome prizes by Friends of Design, Takealot and EA to the value of R40 000 were begging to be won! Talk about a high-profile event! Let’s delve deeper into what went down.
Gamers of Cape Town, it’s time to suit up and get ready for the unknown as event organisers 2upGamers prepare to take you to the mystical and exciting ‘4th Dimension!’
Or something like that!
After hosting three incredible and highly successful gaming events in Cape Town since November 2011, 2upGamers presents the fourth in the series, 4th Dimension, taking place this Friday in Rondebosch - will you be there? Details below!
For South African gamers, 2012 was kicked off with a series of awesome gaming events spread out across the country. Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town all got in on the act and thanks to the efforts of the organisers, these cities all played host to wonderful gatherings of gamers.
El33tonline undertook a mission to attend four separate meet-ups taking place across these three cities and we’re pleased to say that our quest was a complete success!
Here’s our round-up of El33tonline’s coverage of these events:
El33tonline wasn’t the only crew touring gaming events in South Africa during the week of January 16th, as EA South Africa and a very special guest all the way from Australia were also making the rounds to attend gatherings of gamers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
EA South Africa’s Ralph Spinks and Bianca McFadyen, along with EA Australia’s Brad Pidgeon, recently visited a number of gaming events in the country to meet with the gamers of Johannesburg and Cape Town as well as to extend EA’s message of community to gamers.
As El33tonline toured around South Africa in an effort to crash as many gaming events as we could within the space of a single week, we had another chance to sample one of the get-togethers that gamers in Cape Town organise on a weekly basis.
The location for these meet-ups is never set in stone (as we soon learned), but the particular gathering that we attended was held at the Braza restaurant in Canal Walk shopping centre where Lisa and I got to chat with local gamers over some eats.
To date, Glenn Alexander and the team at 2upGamers have successfully run three amazing events for the gamers of Cape Town, complete with interesting guest speakers, food, drink and some of the latest games to play.
As 2upGamers has expanded so rapidly, the team was in need of a suitable location to host their gatherings with enough room for over 100 people to move, eat and chat (with room for swinging arms and legs to avoid damage during dance games, too).
Beginning with the Second Wave event in November, Cape Town-based digital design studio Friends of Design came to the rescue by volunteering its campus space to host these get-togethers, and thanks to them, Cape Town gamers have reaped the benefits of 2upGamers’ hard work and have been able to enjoy two additional highly successful gaming gatherings following the inaugural event in October.
Who or what is Friends of Design? Let’s have a look.
South African online retailer TakeALot has gone through a massive transformation over the last year - it was only a few months ago that the company was more well-known as the award-winning Take2, but now after a name change and a fresh, user-friendly website overhaul, TakeALot is now poised to continue on from its successes to become the country’s premier online destination for all of your entertainment product needs.
TakeALot’s Andrew Royal was at 2upGamers’ recent Third Encounter gaming event to let the audience know about the retailer’s community initiatives and an awesome TakeALot competition, as well as give away three limited edition versions of Mass Effect 3!
Gamers in Cape Town are a very enthusiastic bunch, it must be said. During the presentations at 2upGamers’ recent Third Encounter gaming event, none of the attendees were stingy with their voices, cheering and clapping for all of the guest speakers and their exciting announcements.
The enthusiasm of the gamers of Cape Town was also demonstrated by the fact that dozens of Third Encounter attendees arrived at Friends of Design (the location for the event) well ahead of the scheduled time and stayed late into the evening, which gave El33tonline the chance to snap a few pics of these creatures in their natural habitat…
2upGamers’ recent Third Encounter event was a tremendously fun time - this much we already know - and gave the gamers of Cape Town (and two from Durban) a chance to meet, greet, eat and… beat one another in games of FIFA 12, Fight Night Champion and Need For Speed: The Run.
Third Encounter also gave Lisa and I the chance to meet (mostly for the first time) our fellow online gamers who we play Gears of War 3, Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3 with - the perfect photo opportunity!
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