Author: Brad Lang

One of the core pillars of Microsoft’s gaming ecosystem (blegh, I hate describing tech like that) is Xbox Live, a service that allowed users to play games online through whatever Xbox console they using at the time. It’s been around for as long as I can remember yet this week there were some rather strange rumours circulating, stemmed by a changes in the company’s service agreement, that Microsoft was either renaming or discontinuing Xbox Live in its entirety. I doubt many people actually put stock in these whisperings but given that Microsoft has been doing the most to overhaul and…

Boy, I know I enjoy myself a good hinge every once in a while! All the things you can do with a decent hinge, like bending stuff and…folding other stuff. Maybe only bending and folding that stuff a little and then flattening it out again. Hinges are just magical, right? It would have been nice if the original Samsung Galaxy Fold devices was able to really channel the power of a hinge into a phone but sadly, that was a bit of a flop for the tech company. People weren’t all that keen on the price and the build quality…

You know what, we like doing research at Stuff. Sure, it’s not as fancy and glamorous as all the reviews and press conferences but at the end of the day, what we spend most of our time on is research. Usually it’s to check facts for an article or story, while other times it’s just so we can learn a bit more about a subject we’re writing about. Seldom does a bout of research yield a discovery, yet that’s what happened this morning when we stumbled across Samsung’s local e-commerce website. What started out as a quest to prepare for the slew of…

You know what, this might be an extremely hot take right now, given how the announcement of the PS5 and all those rad games for it kinda took the world by storm. Look, I’ll be the first to say that I’m as hype for a new Ratchet and Clank and Spider-Man game as the next guy, but beyond software the services around the PlayStation 5 are more frustrating than anything else. As an example, while Microsoft is out there toting how the Xbox Series X will offer backwards compatibility of four generations of games, Sony took it upon themselves to cherry pick favourites that will…

Turns out, we do need an education. When kids are stuck at home, you realise the true value of school isn’t learning. It’s peace and quiet around the house. Hand an iPad with these apps to your child for a few hours of blissful, educational silence. Sure, it might not be the same as trusting a trained teacher to impart all the necessary valuable knowledge, such as tying shoelaces or a crash course on the History of Conflict in the Middle East (teach ’em young) but these apps will do wonders to stimulate their growing minds and, most importantly, net you…

Balls! Kicking! A combination of elated and disappointed tears! While it could be possible that I’m talking about the high school experience of some unfortunate souls, what I’m actually talking about is sports, a field (excuse me) of entertainment that’s been more than a little high and dry at the moment. It’s a change that SuperSport has been forced to adapt to pretty dramatically and for better it worse, it’s needed to make some changes to how its all run. That’s the thinking behind the latest channel overhaul Multichoice is conducting with the veritable onslaught of SuperSport channels on DStv,…

There are two types of people you’re likely to find on Netflix. Now, the one is in a rush, constantly having stuff on the go and running from meeting to meeting. They’re a fan of plenty of series and movies though, just struggling to fit in all those super long Netflix Originals. The other type of person, they treat their media like a meal, consuming every morsel with delicate attention, savouring every line and shot. Of course, this is a severe over-simplification of Netflix users but just go with me here because a new playback speed feature feels almost laser focused…

I’ve never been one for racing games. They all feel largely the same to me, no matter how big or sprawling that open world map is. You can have different cars, settings and whatever feeble excuse for a narrative you like but at the end of the day, racing games always come down to “get from here to there fast”. There’s always been a single exception to my rule though, one which unfortunately hasn’t received the modern love it deserves. Burnout as a franchise has always placed “spectacle racing” at the forefront, really ratcheting up the speed and crashes while…

Can’t have been a very comfortable weekend for TikTok, right? One has to feel for both the social media company and the United States as President Donald Trump has proclaimed that he will attempt to ban the Chinese app from the country entirely. Not like the USA has more pressing issues to worry about, but whatever. In any case, with TikTok potentially being removed from a country within which it is immensely popular, it’s been forced into taking some drastic measures. One of them, it seems, is an acquisition by Microsoft which has been confirmed to be in the planning stages.…

I don’t care who you are or what dark underbelly of the internet you crawled out from, people who play mobile games deserve as much attention from publishers and esports organisations as those of us who play on PC or console. Mobile gaming is wildly huge and while the infrastructure around large-scale tournament events for mobile versions of games isn’t nearly as established something like The International for Dota 2, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist in the first place. The local scene especially is growing and MTN is throwing its hat into the ring by establishing the MTN Arena, which promises some…