Eyezmaze is the home of maverick illustrator/game designer ON, whose intuitive puzzle and arcade games have entertained a dedicated group of followers for years.

Grow is inarguably the star attraction of the Eyezmaze game gallery. Now in its sixth iteration, the game challenges players to combine random elements (pots, wheels and eggs, for example) in the correct order to solve a unique problem. As you choose the order from first to last, the elements will “grow” (an egg may hatch, for example), helping you reach your goal. (more…)

It’s been a big week for the South African internet economy. First MWEB started a broadband price war with their uncapped ADSL offering and now Pay Pal and FNB have announced that they’ve entered into an agreement to bring Pay Pal to South Africa. This enables South Africans to sell to PayPal’s global customer base of more than 81 million active accounts in 190 markets around the world and move the proceeds to their FNB accounts. (South Africa is the 190th country to get paypal accounts!)

This drastically lowers the barrier to entry for entrepreneurs to setup online stores and instantly start selling online. Bad news for online merchant providers like MyGate, VCS and even MWEB’s Safeshop.

Michael Jordaan, FNB’s Chief Executive Officer had this to say -

“We are especially pleased to make this announcement on the eve of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, as South Africans will be able to join the global eCommerce marketplace. Our agreement with PayPal also enables international businesses and individuals to transact with South African service providers via a secure and convenient payment gateway”

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“FNB and PayPal have a similar focus on innovation, so it makes sense that we would work with FNB to make online payments even easier for merchants and consumers in South Africa,” said Oded Zehavi, head of PayPal’s business in Israel and South Africa.

FNB Customers can simply open a PayPal account and link it to a qualified FNB account and receive PayPal payments in 21 different currencies. FNB will convert the currency to South African Rand, when the money is transferred into their accounts.

Twitter is buzzing with the news.

Having been confirmed by Polish developer CD Projekt earlier this week, we’re at last getting to see some of The Witcher 2. This cinematic trailer tells us two things:

• There’s some assassin-y business going on in this sequel. Readers of The Witcher books by Andrzeh Sapkowski, on which the mature-themed RPG is based, should know more.
• The naughty, naked bits that helped propel the first game to popularity are still in. Phew, we were worried for a bit there. (more…)

Modern Warfare 2’s not-so-long awaited map pack, The Stimulus Package, is being teased with a gameplay trailer.

The DLC will be available for download over Xbox Live from next week, while PS3 and PC users will have to wait 30 days. Ouch, Microsoft. That really stings.

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EA’s rebooted basketball title, NBA Jam, is coming to the Wii this year. See the latest screenshots, fresh from the game’s official Facebook fanpage. (more…)

Valve are “clearing out [their] digital warehouse” by offering Left 4 Dead 2, their highly recommended zombie survival shooter, for a paltry $25. That comes to R183! (more…)

Bandwidth blog’s series of office photos posts takes you inside the hottest internet startups locally and abroad. This week we visit Zoopy.com, an online and mobile social media community. Zoopy made headlines last year when they were acquired by cellular giant Vodacom. Since the acquisition Zoopy has gone from strength to strength – launching a redesign, announcing various media partnerships and producing high quality webisodes shows (some in HD) labeled as Zoopy TV.

Their offices are decorated in true startup style, funky walls, iMacs everywhere and chill areas for employees to relax in – we take you inside:

Props goes out to Zoopy’s CEO, Jason Elk, for sending us the photos.

Admob has launched a number of great tools designed to enable publishers to more efficiently manage their publisher account. The mobile advertising network made headlines last year when Google announced they where acquiring Admob.

The New Publisher Dashboard allows publishers to view key statistics for their mobile websites and apps from one streamlined location. Users can customize the AdMob interface to see data that is most important to them such as revenue for the day, real-time pending earnings or performance statistics by geography. Improved navigation also makes it easy for a publisher to quickly review key performance metrics for each site or app in their account

Enhanced Reporting UI gives users the ability to customize, view and save reports from the same interface. Publishers can easily save time by saving reports they run on a regular basis. Reports can be saved for either a fixed date range, June 1-30 for instance, or for a dynamic time period such as the previous 7 days.  Users can also create reports for different groupings of their sites or apps, for example viewing performance for all Android apps together.

Reporting API (Beta) enables both publishers and advertisers to build their own internal tools and dashboards that incorporate AdMob data.  All statistics available through the AdMob interface can be accessed through the Reporting API allowing users to easily evaluate and compare their performance to that of other networks.  The Reporting API can be found in the Tools section of their AdMob account.

Server Side Controls enable developers using the new iPhone, Android and Flash Lite SDKs to dynamically control ads within their applications from their AdMob account. For example, users can easily edit the text and background color of their ads along with the refresh rate of their applications without the need to submit the changes to their respective app stores. This not only saves time, but also allows developers to test different aspects of their apps and optimize the content based on their findings.

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