Author: Brad Lang

Every year it seems like there’s some new controversy around the annual shooter franchise and it’s starting even earlier than usual in 2020. Remember that really cool trailer Activision released for Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War last week? Well, China wasn’t all that keen on it, which prompted the trailer to be altered for the entire world. Second place The trailer in question focused on real-life footage pulled directly from documentaries and videos shot during the Cold War with the tagline, “Know your history or be doomed to repeat it” rounding out the game’s teaser. One of the…

Listen, tab junkie. You and I have done this dance before, so you know exactly what I’m about to tell you. You can sit there and complain about how slow your Google Chrome is and whine that it’s using up way too many of your computer’s resources. To be fair, that is a pretty massive problem with Chrome, we all know that. Yet you could make the problem much less severe if you just closed your damn tabs. The fact that you have 28 different tabs open is probably the cause for your Chrome running so slowly and quite frankly, Microsoft…

The thing that really makes a tablet stand out from the competition is versatility. Which is ironic when you think about the fact that arguably the best tablet devices on the market are iPads, devices intrinsically linked into Apple’s infrastructure and not much else. Yet despite that, the range of apps, utilities and entertainment options even an older model of the iPad is able to support has been enough to cement them into the technological landscape. And while the iPad promotes itself as being a device that allows users to accomplish whatever they want with it, Amazon’s Fire HD 8…

What’s better than a hybrid game console? How about three hybrid game consoles? Or maybe, if that doesn’t tickle your fancy, three hybrid game consoles that each do something a little different? If you’re a massive company like Nintendo, it makes sense to cater to as many consumers as possible. That was the thinking behind the release of the Switch Lite, a smaller handheld only version of the original, dockable Switch. Yet not everyone wants a smaller, weaker Switch. Some absolute madlads want a Switch that can output in 4K so that can see every single hair in Mario’s mustache. We want…

If you’re a fan of DC Comics, or anything even tangentially related to superheroes, you’re no doubt aware of everything that’s happened over the weekend. To make up for a weird year and many cancelled events, DC Comics announced its own virtual event called, rather grandly, the DC Fandome; a name so ridiculous that it goes past dumb and circles back to being pretty cool. If you missed the event or have, perhaps more understandably than ever, been hiding under a rock then you might want to take a quick gander at some of the bigger announcements of the weekend. We gathered…

I want it on record that I take no pleasure in writing this feature. In the past, I’ve waxed lyrical about the comic book realm within which I’ve planted my cape-adorned, spandex-wearing flag. I’ve consumed those stories of mighty heroes saving the day and proving that truth and justice will always prevail since I was a wee lad, so the opportunity to virtually embody those characters, take an active role in the mythos I’ve admired and appreciated for so long was… well, exciting to say the least. Even when all the, to put it kindly, less graceful aspects of Marvel’s…

Apple’s certainly got a lot to deal with right now. They’re currently undergoing a very public legal dispute (that’s turning into a bit of a dog-pile) with Epic Games, they’re still being investigated for anti-trust practices and they’re apparently on the verge of announcing the next iPhone. Rumours have been swirling for ages now regarding Apple’s new flagship release, with many speculating that a delay may be on the cards due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Pulling at whatever threads they can, Apple fans might have figured out when the next iPhone could be dropping and it’s sooner than anyone was actually…

As much as I hate to admit it, Epic’s rather tone-deaf misreading of George Orwell’s 1984 trailer is doing exactly what it intended to. Don’t get me wrong, the movement that is building against Apple and its totalitarian distribution of apps across their store is good and one that should have happened ages ago. I guess I just don’t like a “hero” that announces their own importance before actually getting to work. It’s like if Spider-Man stopped to take pictures with all of the onlookers before actually heading off to fight Vulture. It’s a little bit tasteless even if he…

I can’t believe I’m writing this. You know, I woke up thinking I would have a lovely day. Had a good coffee in the morning, saw a cool Call of Duty trailer, completely avoided Facebook because my feed is just drowning in strange Boss Baby-like caricatures of all my friends doing that horizontal slide-in wave pose. Really, in times of the Avatarpocalypse the last thing I want to be doing is placing myself within that sphere of Facebook. Yet I’m nothing if not dedicated to the Stuff readers. I will wade into the waters of dumb cartoons and social media trends…

It’s strange to be writing this post so late in the year. See, with Call of Duty essentially becoming an annualised franchise, there’s a schedule that publisher Activision tends to stick to. Tease a game in June, announce it in July and then hype everyone up for it until it eventually drops at the end of October or early November. Yet, as is the standard set by 2020, everything’s been pretty weird this year. There was no teaser in June. A month went past and there was still no teaser, let alone an announcement. Now, as August is nearing its…