Author: Brad Lang

It’s seldom that you get to see a marriage made in heavy within the gaming industry. Yet one such union has just been announced and it’s a real doozy. IO Interactive, the team behind the insanely popular Hitman franchise, has confirmed that it’s next project is a James Bond game. A very brief teaser was revealed for the game that basically just confirmed that it was happening and beyond that… we don’t really know all that much else. James Bond is the perfect franchise for IO Interactive. The developers are no stranger to games that feature suave, easily cosplay-able badass…

Setting up a decent password for any device is not just a good idea, it’s an essential step in securing all your private information. We’re not talking about the weird pattern you draw on your phone to unlock it (although that’s still important) but rather all those weird and wonderful words used to keep your accounts and online profiles safe. To make sure you’re not opening yourself up to attacks NordPass, creators of one of the most reliable and trustworthy VPNs you can find online, has released a list of the most common and hackable passwords. It’s an extensive list…

With Checkers Sixty60 having thoroughly blown everyone away this year, Pick n Pay has no doubt felt a little left out. So to makes sure they’re more involved in the conversation, it’s gone ahead and announced it’s own mobile network service. PnP Mobile will piggyback on MTN’s established infrastructure and will be tied into Pick n Pay’s loyalty system. Basically, if you use your smart shopper card you can earn some data to use for PnP Mobile which actually doesn’t sound like a terrible idea. We’ll speak more on this in a second, but first, let’s get through some of…

If for whatever reason you haven’t got around to subscribing to Spotify Premium, you’re about to be presented with, possibly, your best opportunity of the year. Spotify has announced that its annual holiday offer has come back to give all you folks still listening to ads (which we’re sure they make purposefully terrible) a chance to grab a subscription to one of the best audio streaming services around. According to the press release Spotify sent out this morning, you’ll be able to grab a subscription for a pretty decent price starting from today. The offer runs from 19 November through…

Oppo, that brand that just launched a series of pretty decent phones in South Africa, has just finished up hosting its second “Inno Day” event. The event, which happened digitally, mainly presented some of Oppo’s next big ideas going into 2021 and beyond. There were some really cool devices shown off as well and as much as we enjoy the idea of a neat set of AR glasses (we’ll get there in a second), the rolling phone is the thing that really caught our attention. Seriously, once you see this thing in action, you’ll wish for it to immediately exit…

Puma is going all out in celebrating the most iconic video game character in history, as it announces a new range of Super Mario themed clothing. Bringing the colour palette and design influences from the jumping plumber with an affection for mushrooms, we being the complete nerds we are think they look fresh as hell. Drawing on the plumber’s extensive history and referencing amazing games like Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy, Puma is clearly going all out to give Nintendo fans something to really show off their passion for the Mushroom Kingdom. Oh, and Sunshine is in here as well. Always…

Seemingly out of nowhere, DStv has removed the “Catch Up” feature from its streaming platform. In its place, users can now find a host of new categories that focus on everything from kids entertainment and movies to sport and various new TV shows. All of the same content is there it’s just… under a range of different banners. It came as a shock to many users who were forcibly logged out of their accounts and made to log back. Upon returning, they discovered that the Catch-Up menu was nowhere to be found, leading many to think that they’d have to…

The latest feature coming to WhatsApp is a real biggie, especially if you’re anything like us and utterly despise responding to messages. The “Read Later” function will be added in place of the Archived Chats feature and it does exactly what you think it will. Arriving in a beta test for the app, Read Later will allow users to archive chats and continue to not receive notifications if a new message arrives. You’ll also be able to drop chats into the Read Later folder to avoid notifications even if you haven’t archived them. Really, it’s just a renaming of the…

Watch Dogs has always been a franchise that emphasises people. Not necessarily characters, as the first game’s dreary writing attests, but the people in the world and how you interact with them. It’s a franchise that’s made it’s core about the interconnectedness of technology and how that can be manipulated by someone who knows what they’re doing. Thus, Watch Dogs: Legion is the next logical step forward for Ubisoft’s hack-em-up: Rather than just simply browsing the online profile of every NPC in the game, Legion lets you take advantage of those folks roaming the streets and use them to assist your cause. While…

SpaceX launches first manned "operational" flight to the ISS Those crazy space cowboys over at SpaceX, working alongside the eggheads of NASA, have done it again. This weekend, SpaceX successfully launched its second ever crewed mission to the International Space Station. The six month journey to the ISS is being helmed by four astronauts, namely