Videogames> Sports Island

E365 -- Sports Island is a sports compilation game for the Wii, in much the same vein as the Wii Sports title that comes free with your purchase of the Wii console. Wii Sports has proven a major success and a big part of why the Wii is flying off the shelves in record numbers. It stands to reason, then, that other game companies would try and cash in on it's success. Unfortunately, Sports Island isn't nearly as much fun or as easily accessible as Wii Sports and, while one or two of the sports offer some fun gameplay, the title as a whole is a disappointment.

Videogames> Wii Fit

E365 -- One of the main problems with exercise, apart from the troublesome "no pain, no gain" mantra, is that there is seldom enough motivation to get up off the couch and head down to the gym. Working out is hard work, and it just isn't fun. Enter Wii Fit, the latest lifestyle "game" from Nintendo, and its peripheral, the Balance Board. 

Videogames> MX vs. ATV Untamed

E365 -- Ever since it's original 1998 release, Motocross Madness, Rainbow Studios has been the undisputed king of offroad racing games. MX vs. ATV Untamed is the seventh offroad title they've released, and once again it contains many of the same features that have made their previous efforts successful. Outside of some new modes and event types there's not too much here that fans of the franchise won't have seen before, but, ten years into the series, perhaps that shouldn't come as much of a surprise. 

Videogames> EA's skate Usurps Tony's Throne

E365> Unrivalled in the skating stakes for close to the last decade, it seems Tony Hawk finally has some competition with the release of EA's skate. 

Bruisin' Music> NOFX Rips The Throats From SA Crowd

E365 -- NOFX have been the punk godfathers since before the T-Rex was invented, and it goes to show. They're currently on a tour that involves stops in Portugal, Spain and South Africa. Extreme365 got a foot in the door to catch the Cape Town leg of their journey. 

Bruisin' Music> Phoenix Finally Rise

E365 -- If you take a fleeting look at Phoenix, you won't catch much out of the ordinary. A four-piece indie rock band, yeah? Seen it. Aha! But that's where you're out of your water, little one. Phoenix are distinctively informed by musical progression, having grown up and jammed alongside techno-dance ringleaders Daft Punk and chillout masters Air. So what's with the guitar music, then? 

Bruisin' Music> Did Calvin Harris Really Create Disco? Uh...No.

E365 -- With a deliciously arrogant aura and a purist electroclash/disco revival setlist, Calvin Harris blasts onto the UK and global scene with debut album I Created Disco. Hey, you get to work with Kylie Minogue when you're that self-assured. 

Bruisin' Music> Swivel Foot: The Last Round

E365 -- South African punk rock has NEVER been to my taste. Over-worked, boring and plagiaristic (is that even a word!) are just some of the words which my vocab is able to generate once my mind has been tortured by what is best described as 'noise'. Now don't get me wrong, Fuzigish and Hog Hoggidy Hog have it down, but it is the bands which are beginning to emerge which send me running in the opposite direction. 

Bruisin' Music> Ampli5: South African Concert Extravaganza

E365 -- Following hot in the footsteps of the curiously named MyCokeFest came Ampli5. Clever name, and on the whole, super-slick production for a team of organisers whose name means "on a little hill in the Highveld." 

Bruisin Music> Dub Pistols Speak A Little Louder

A seven-man dub hip hop crew with three loudhailers may sound like a recipe for Transformers-like demolition, but is Dub Pistols' latest release, Speakers & Tweeters, as noisy as the band's image?