Author: Brad Lang

Some people like to listen to discussions, ourselves included. There’s something…relaxing about listening to two learned people discuss something interesting before switching over to Joe Rogan’s podcast to be reminded how he definitely shouldn’t allow some of those guests to spew their garbage on the air. But while listening to a podcast can be enjoyable, some folks prefer to use both ears and eyes to appreciate the show going on before them. If that’s the case, you’d usually head over to YouTube for the video cut of a podcast rather than just listening to it on Spotify. That’s something the music…

Humanity has lived through many ages. We went through the Stone Age, Iron Age and while it may be way more recent than those other two eras, the Copper Age is coming to an end. Look, it’s not actually called The Copper Age (that was a while ago) but we’ve been living with internet pumped into our abodes by janky, unreliable and apparently valuable copper cables for years now. Fibre-optic technology blew those cables out the water in recent years and as the infrastructure for fibre-based internet connections has spread across the country, copper has become obsolete. Hence, why Telkom is…

Electric cars aren’t exactly the most exciting kind of car on the market. Sure, from the perspective that they’re still quite new and way better for the environment one could argue that they’re kinda exciting. We’d argue that makes them more… intriguing. Fascinating, if you will. When one pictures high-octane stunts, tire-spin and plenty of burnt rubber, stopping to charge your car for an hour doesn’t really pop to mind. That’s why this video of the new Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 is so impressive. Just take 5 minutes to watch the video and you’ll understand exactly what we’re talking about. The other 1400 When…

We’re all stuck at home, we’re all sad and we all need something to distract us from the threat of a global pandemic. It’s old news at this point, you don’t need a refresher. While some learned folks turn to their bookshelves for entertainment and those with an eye for visual flair took up fun hobbies like painting and…well, let’s just say mosaic-ing, the majority of sane-minded people turned to video games to while away the boring hours stuck at home. It’s been one of the very few good parts about this lockdown. That, and not spending as much on…

The issue of review bombing has grown exponentially in the last few years. What started out as a way for disgruntled gamers and movie-goers to have some kind of tangible effect on products that left them annoyed or somehow took advantage of a community has rapidly degraded into what is more often than not a way for trolls, shit-heads and insignificant people to whine and negatively impact sales of something (or try to, at the very least). This most recently occurred with the incredible The Last of Us Part II, which was sitting at a Metacritic user score of 3.0…

When it’s not being conspiratorially blasted for somehow causing cancer, COVID-19 or whatever other disease or disorder some nutcase on Facebook has pulled out of a hat, 5G is a pretty sweet deal. It’s one of the fastest internet connections available these days, offering speeds of up to 200mbps which is wickedly fast… if you’re lucky enough to be in an area where 5G signals are offered. Fortunately, that area just got bigger thanks to rain and Huawei teaming up to launch the country’s first standalone 5G network in Cape Town. Now, as long as a moderate breeze isn’t sweeping through the neighbourhood, Cape…

The start of a new console generation usually spells doom for the previous iteration of hardware. No-one wanted a PS3 when the PS4 launched. Why would you want the previous generation when everything else was so much…shinier? Sure, reduced prices might be a draw for some but publishers like Sony and Microsoft are gearing up to reduce the emphasis on the old generation. Why? Well, profits more directly align with the next step in technology. Such is the case with the current Xbox One series, set to be retired by Microsoft just a few months before their next console, the…

Before we delve into this story, we’d like to take a second to remember and mourn the Dead Space series. Fantastic horror games that unfortunately devolved into co-op action shooters, there was nothing like Dead Space. Visceral, freaky, disgusting and some of the most tense horror we’ve experienced playing and reviewing video games, nothing has managed to come close to the outright terror that was Dead Space. Yet that’s not stopping No Man’s Sky from giving it a go. Event Horizon A game that’s as much a “Zero to Hero” story as Disney’s Hercules, the game that started out as one of the most…

Who could have foreseen when the clock ticked over to 1 January 2020 that Zoom, of all tech companies, would see a meteoric rise to success this year? It says less about Zoom as an app and more about their competitors, such as Skype, that despite being seemingly unheard of before this year Zoom has completely exploded in popularity. It’s being used by everyone who isn’t already using Microsoft Teams so it makes sense that the big bosses, sitting around a fancy, newly polished boardroom table, would decide that the next logical step for Zoom would be the development of hardware.…

Bitcoin. Say that word and those friends who’ve come into contact with your one acquaintance who doesn’t shut up about how smart he is for investing early, quake with fear (and annoyance). Yet when Bitcoin extends beyond that annoyance to full blown security threat? Well, that’s enough to get everyone shivering with terror. Such is the case with a huge attack on Twitter which took place last night, compromising some really large and influential Twitter accounts in a bid to promote some kind of bitcoin scam. Twitter took drastic measures to stifle the hack but, at this point, the fact that…