Author: Brad Lang

Yes yes, we all know that joke about Batman just being a rich person that dresses up like a bat and punches mentally unwell people. We’ve heard it before and we’re tired of it. Even if you’re one of those folks that still somehow deny the excellency of Batman, you’ve got to still appreciate how bitchin’ his ride is. The Batmobile is arguably the most iconic car in popular culture and the various forms and iterations it has taken on over the years are fascinating. If you feel like a trip into the storied history of this mechanically magnificent machine, then this…

As the month of May rolls around to June, the thing we at the Stuff office are most excited about right now is the imminent release of The Last of Us Part II. Sony’s been keeping the hype train running with weekly streams of their latest exclusive. The trailers have been consistently good, showing off the new mechanics, story beats and gameplay of what is arguably the most anticipated game of the year. So why not leap into this 24 minute featurette and feast you eyes on all this never-before seen footage. We won’t go into too many specific details…

It’s actually kinda remarkable how many people are still playing Pokémon Go in 2020, even though we’re more restricted than ever in terms of running, walking or any other kind of outside movement. While plenty of folks dropped off after the Blissful Summer of 2016 when the game first launched, the dedicated audience Pokémon Go has retained usually gathers once a year to celebrate their favourite app yet given the circumstances, that’s a little harder than usual lately. Yet the show will go on! Niantic announced last night that Pokémon Go Fest will be held as an online event that can be…

Who was there for you when your internet connection conked out for the fifth time that week? Wasn’t your service provider, they just kept you on hold the whole time. Your significant other was out at the office, using that powerful business network to get all their projects downloaded. Even your pet, now bored by the lack of tailored YouTube content that played whenever you needed to keep them busy while running errands, has turned their back on you. There was only one thing there for you, willing to provide you with the comfort and support you needed in such…

With webcams being such a hot commodity right now, we at Stuff have taken it upon ourselves to help guide and encourage you folks to work around the shortages you’ll see in dozens of electronic shops. We’ve assisted you in using an old smartphone as a make-shift webcam and even created a little guide on how to use your fancy DSLR camera as the most unnecessarily expensive webcam you’ll ever own. We wanted to cover as many DSLR cameras as possible in the feature but were forced to leave off Fujifilm cameras. There just wasn’t any software compatible with that particular brand.…

Depending on who you ask, PlayStation Plus owners had it kinda rough last month. The subscription service that allows for multiplayer on Sony’s console and hands out free games every month to subscribers dished out some… well, they weren’t exactly high profile games. While still fantastic in their own right, Cities: Skylines and Farming Simulator 19 didn’t exactly appeal to the broad range of people playing on PlayStation enough to satisfy their itch for fun. Sony received some flak for this but it seems like they’re trying to turn it all around with their latest offering which is actually arriving a week early,…

What’s the oldest board game you can think of? Probably something archaic and super boring like Snakes and Ladders, Chess or Monopoly. Sure, Monopoly isn’t as old as those classics but it certainly feels like you’re playing games from centuries ago. Having said that, there’s a long time between playing Monopoly and whatever this ancient treasure is. Odds are, this board game from 1700 years ago is probably still more fun than anything related to owning small plastic replicas of houses. Discovered by archaeologists working for the University Museum of Bergen, this set of double-sided tokens and etched rods is believed…

Everyone knows the struggle of rationing their data. If you’ve ever been on a pre-paid data plan you know the feeling of running the numbers on how much data you can spare to use on Facebook during the day without running out before you host an important WhatsApp call. It can be super annoying because even though you can just dial a number to find out how much you have left, that doesn’t tell you how much data you’ll burn after browsing Twitter for ten minutes. MTN has formulated a plan for all of you who insist on rationing out…

How fast does your internet have to be before you can call it “fast”? Some of you might say that your 40Mbps line is fast, while those lucky folks sitting on a 1Gbps line laugh at your plodding connection. Yet even the fastest connection in the whole of South Africa will have to admit defeat in the wake of a new internet speed record set by researchers in Australia. With the kind of transfer speeds one can only dream of, two universities managed to achieve a maximum speed of 44.2 Tbps. Australia’s Monash University, Swinburne University and RMIT University all got…

For all you folks that stay up way too late watching random junk on YouTube, Google has announced that they will soon be implementing its Digital Wellbeing features onto the platform. The first helping hand, offered only by the YouTube app currently, is a bedtime reminder to try and ensure people don’t burn all their hours of necessary sleep on catching up with some vlogger creating a diss track on some other vlogger. Here’s how to set up your bedtime reminder. It should be noted that at the time of writing this option won’t be available for everyone as Google…