Author: Brad Lang

How much money would you be willing to throw at YouTube? See, most people I know will instantly respond with, “None. It’s all free and there’s ads and stuff. Why would I pay them money?” Which is a fair enough point, right? Yet for some folks, the appeal of YouTube TV justifies the price. A replacement for services like DStv with all the premium channel content pulled directly from the United States without being mangled by Multichoice? Sure, I can see how that might draw in some customers. Yet that’s only if they’re willing to fork over what is, frankly, a ludicrous…

It’s a little frustrating that whenever I see any kind of news relating to an update for Call of Duty: Warzone I’m instantly forced to consider which games I’m okay to delete when it eventually drops. The Modern Warfare updates have been pretty substantial in their size even when their scope was nothing to really fawn over. Yet the latest update, Season 4 Reloaded as it’s been named, is a little bit more focused on size than usual, and I’m not talking about the amount of storage it’s using to live on your hard drive. The biggest addition in Season…

Blessed be the gods of the dark mode, that feature which helps all of us that are constantly staring at our devices to preserve our corneas and reduce that horrific sensation of burning eyeballs. Dark mode is rapidly becoming a feature that’s almost expected in most apps and while Facebook may have rather recently updated the desktop client for their social media platform to feature a dark mode, the mobile app has unfortunately been left high and dry. Yet change is looming as it seems a very small percentage of users have been blessed with the option to switch to…

Look, nothing we can say will ever lighten the mental and emotional load of losing your job due to the current coronavirus pandemic that’s still going on, which we’re emphasising due to the fact that plenty of folks are acting like everything’s back to normal. Losing your job is one of the most stressful experiences a person can go through and there’s very little that one can do to alleviate the pain and anxiety and while playing boardgames with friends and family won’t exactly help you sleep better at night, they’ll at least provide a pleasant distraction. Fortunately for you, the publisher…

I was a little late to the party when it came to playing Bioshock. See, I was only twelve when the first game dropped in 2007 and my folks weren’t all that stoked on my pre-teen brain seeing horrific images of men in large diving suits drilling holes into the chest of genetically addled drug-addicts. Having said that, when I did eventually get around to playing the first game, alongside Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite when that eventually released, the hype surrounding the series was very clearly understandable. But all three of those games released a long time ago, as much…

One of the more unexpected problems of the modern age of technology that we live in is what to do with the phones we accumulate over the years. There’s probably a forgotten drawer filled with useless old phones you don’t need to keep around but…what else are you meant to do with them? They cost a small fortune when you bought them so to just throw them away feels wrong. Right? While all your old Androids might have to hang out a little longer, those classic Apple devices you’ve got gathering dust can now be traded in for a little…

Glasses can be a cruel and harsh mistress, providing those folks that can only see to the tip of their noses with the blessing of clear sight while also making staying safe during these times of pandemic just a little more annoying than they should be. Wearing a mask and glasses at the same time can make one misty-eyed with the condensation forming on those lenses and that just sucks. Fortunately for you nerds out there who need to wear classes, The Verge was kind enough to sketch out a guide on how to stop your lenses from fogging up while wearing…

Speaking from a personal perspective, I love everything superhero. My parents just pulled into town for a week and brought some boxes of mine that I wasn’t able to transport when I first moved to Joburg and I’d say their contents were 90% comic books, collected since I was a wee pup. I live and breath everything superhero, so when it was announced that Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal were uniting their powers (excuse the pun) to make a game based on The Avengers, I was shivering with excitement to see what it was all about. Now, after some gameplay…

Back when I was at school, the computer room was an absolute mess. There were cables and broken monitors and all sorts of busted components strewn about the place and while I did happen to find an abandoned copy of Company of Heroes lying around, it wasn’t the best maintained department. Having said that, just having that kind of access to computers and the internet in general was a lot more than most schools in our lovely country. As the world becomes more engrained with the internet, it’s become more important than ever for students to understand the digital space. Which…

Let us once again wade into the pool of objective coolness as we talk about the world of skateboards, grinding, shedding and…kickflips, I think they’re called? Everyone’s had their jimmies rustled at the prospect of returning to two of the most beloved (and formative) video games of all time as the remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 is set to tickle tummies all across the world when it releases later this year. You won’t have to wait that long to experience the game first-hand though as a demo is dropping a full month before the game launches…kind of. See,…