Author: Brad Lang

Months of rumours regarding the launch of Huawei’s new flagship model, the P40 and P40 Pro have led up the official announcement event this afternoon. While the country might be extremely concerned about the lockdown starting this evening, maybe a snazzy smartphone launch will be what you need to keep yourself distracted. The P40 is an important phone for Huawei, there are no two ways about it. With the US ban on Huawei’s products essentially axing any Google software or affiliation from their smartphones, Huawei is out here looking to prove something to the world. The recent launch of the…

It doesn’t matter how much cash you’re making at the end of the day, nor should your feelings on ultra-powerful corporations because right now humanity needs all the help it can get. Fortunately for us, even those higher-ups on the economic food chain are doing their part to help out first responders and medical staff everywhere. While the majority of people around the world are terrified of contracting the coronavirus, the people most at risk are those fighting this thing on the frontlines. With the rate that COVID-19 has spread around the world, it’s no surprise that medical supplies are…

Spectrum will be released during the lockdown period, and the South African government will be providing aid to smaller ICT companies in the country. These measures are being put in place by SA’s Minister of Communications in a bid to ensure truthful information is spread across the country. The point? To combat the spread of fake news that will emerge once the country goes into lockdown. Did we say ’emerge’? A bunch of it is already here. Information communication technology is the backbone of the industry Stuff does most of its reporting on. Without a reliable means of communicating and spreading resources…

Look, we know. WhatsApp groups are just the pits. Too many people set them up without a decent reason and use them as a means to spam bad memes and poorly sourced news articles (we’re looking at you, Aunt Patricia). Yet before the days when they became the scourge of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp Groups were really efficient means of spreading information among small clusters of people. Given that South Africans are about to be incredibly isolated very soon, we thought it was a good idea to go over how to set up a WhatsApp group. Just to make…

As can be expected, with the number of people stuck at home due to the COVID-19 virus Facebook has seen a monumental increase in usage over the course of just a few weeks. Yet while you might be fooled into thinking that’s cause for celebration for the social media platform, apparently the excessive use is placing severe strain on the company’s infrastructure. This whole coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be a real Catch 22 for Facebook as the company has announced that the sheer volume of people using the site has caused it a great deal of strain. Now,…

UPDATE: BT Games have released an apology regarding the newsletter emailed yesterday. The Resident Evil 3 Remake will not be launching today and is still expected to be released on 3 April, the original release date. Clearly someone was either a little confused or just a tad spooked about the whole lockdown thing. Both the Resident Evil 3 Remake and Persona 5 Royal is slated to only release in early April but given the situation around the lockdown of South Africa on Thursday, BT Games wants to ensure that players can get their hands on physical copies of the two highly…

Doom is just one of those games that can do what it wants without justifying its actions. Robot demons? Please, go ahead, Doom. Ammo generating chainsaw? Be our guest, Doom! An unkillable, ever violent force of nature simply named “Doomguy” as our protagonist? You don’t even have to ask, Doom! With a lineage as long and storied as what many consider to be the original first-person shooter (besides those ones that actually came before it), id Software’s demon-slaying murder fest is a legend in and out of the gaming industry. Considering the success of the 2016 reboot of Doom, there was a…

Audible, the subscription-based service which offers audiobooks and podcasts to users, is doing its part in keeping children entertained during the coronavirus pandemic. It has decided to make a fairly broad range of their novels free to listen to until schools reopen. One can only assume they’re talking about American schools, but ours are closed too so we’re sure South Africa counts. Audiobooks are an absolute blast. All of you gatekeeping individuals who want to be miserable and insist audiobooks don’t count as reading, can just click on over to the next article because none of this will appeal to…

To help those players who just want to catch Pokémon in these times of woe and distress, Niantic has announced that they will be making Pokémon Go cheaper and easier to play, while placing less emphasis on physical activity. Isn’t that kind of them? We at Stuff kinda love Pokémon Go. It’s come a long way since those three blissful months after it’s initial release in 2016 and while it’s certainly got problems, most of the game’s pressing issues have been ironed out. Now it’s a great excuse to head outside and get some exercise as it’s grown into a Massive Multiplayer…

The battle royale mode attached to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been raking in the player numbers, which makes a lot of sense considering that people love Call of Duty, love being the last person standing in a vicious fight to the death and love being unable to leave their houses due to the spread of a virus! Call of Duty: Warzone is huge. Wild, right? Who would have thought that a free battle royale mode for one of the most popular video game franchises ever would receive so much love and attention from gamers? Certainly not us! While…