Author: Brad Lang

According to a press release sent out by Smartphone Shop, you’ll now be able to purchase phones during lockdown as telecommunications is apparently a service we can’t live without. Honestly, that’s pretty true these days. Staying in touch with people is awfully hard when your phone is busted and you can’t leave the house. Groceries are important, we all know that. What, you think you’re some kind of SAS operative who’s going to rough out the lockdown by sucking rainwater out of your crusty socks while nibbling on a fishmoth? Even if you are, that’s gross. Please don’t do that.…

The exceptional racing game franchise, Forza, with a remarkably solid track record will be making its first venture into the realm of smartphones on 5 May 2020. Except for familiar cars, plenty of tracks to speed through and races that’ll…only last a minute? Racing games on mobile are…well, they’ve been pretty hit or miss for a while now. Sure, you’d think it’d be easy to translate the mechanics of turning a steering wheel to a phone, especially since most smartphones these days have some kind of gyroscope to provide the “immersive experience” that’s so often using as a selling point…

It feels like just yesterday that Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Fold, their initial attempt at a folding smartphone, to a cacophony of less than stellar reviews. Was the reception of the original so poor that it’s prompted the creation of a Galaxy Fold 2 just months after the first Fold floundered its way onto the market? Folding is super in right now. Didn’t you get the memo? Yeah, everything’s got to have a fold of some kind now. Clothes, files and especially smartphones. It’s way easier for the two former items on this brief checklist to incorporate a fold but…

Sony, still very much enjoying drip-feeding us all the information on the PlayStation 5 has finally shown off something that’s not just a bunch of numbers on a graph. The DualSense is the official follow-up to the DualShock 4 and it looks like it’s packing some heat. While we still have no idea what the actual box for the PlayStation 5 will look like, we actually have some information (and visuals!) on the next best thing: the controller. The DualShock series of controllers have become iconic to the PlayStation brand with the previous iteration, the DualShock 4, being a pretty…

While the service is mostly known for delivering flower bouquets and gift packs, considering that model of business isn’t exactly classified as essential, groceries will have to suffice in place of roses and chocolates for Netflorist. Netflorist may not exactly have had the best track record of late. The company has been running for a couple of decades now but that hasn’t stopped them from overcharging for a good amount of their products. Yet it seems even the most expensive of roses isn’t enough to satiate those stuck at home. Look, rose petals can be great as a garnish but…

The problem with remaking Resident Evil 3 just a year after Resident Evil 2 received the same treatment is juggling expectations. While the second game in the franchise, and the first to receive the remake treatment to resounding applause from all spheres of the internet, was almost guaranteed to be a success considering the love many already held for the original, Resident Evil 3 never quite reached the same heights back in the day. Many went in expecting it to be just more of the second game and were left a little disappointed. As it tends to do, history has…

The new video streaming platform with a whole heap of investment behind it and a wide variety of star-power to boot wants to be the next big thing but if you ask us, we’d prefer to watch a Ridley Scott movie on a TV, not a smartphone. Maybe we’re just old school like that. Ever heard of Quibi? We’re willing to bet that you haven’t, it’s a super new video streaming app that’s set the world on fire (more so than it already is). At least, that’s what it wants you think. Reading up on Quibi on Digital Trends, the…

The enjoyable little cooking game, Cooking Mama, was supposedly released and then quickly removed off the Nintendo Switch shop due to concerns that it may contain blockchain codes to enable bitcoin mining. While the discovery of these implementations has been refuted, the reason the game was removed was actually due to the in-game music being ripped straight off YouTube. This was a strange event to wake up to. While you might be forgiven for not knowing who (or more accurately what) Cooking Mama is. A relatively small game franchise built on the premise of cooking if you can believe it,…

So, Microsoft Edge is the second most favoured browser in the world. What makes this news even more impressive is that the new version of Edge is only three months old, but it still has a long way to go if it wants to eclipse Google Chrome. Clearly it’s never too late to make a change, right? It seems weird to be writing that a browser by Microsoft is actually picking up steam but here we are. While some very outdated memes on the internet (and probably social media, most commonly) might still mock Internet Explorer for the garbage that…

Joining a string of other media outlets, Marvel is doing their part to keep people inside by convincing them that it’s actually far more fun to see Captain America and Black Panther go head-to-head with the X-Men than it is to walk around outside and spread a deadly contagion. We’re here to tell you they’re absolutely correct! While it’s nice to see Audible making a whole load of audiobooks free for people stuck inside during these uncertain times, and DSTV offering up a range of channels for non-subscribers to stream for no charge, what about those dorks like me that…