Author: Brett Venter

Darksiders III, the sequel to the excellent prior games starring War and Death, recently had a release date announcement leaked, confirmed, and then developer Gunfire Games revealed that they’d actually tweeted the 27 November release date themselves ahead of time. The long and short of it is that Darksiders III, a series that we thought might have met its end when Vigil Games was shuttered, is back and we’ve got a brand new look at some Fury-focussed gameplay footage to bask in. The footage comes by way of IGN France, who got the first look at the whip-wielding protagonist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j37r56FROZE…

Nikon’s Coolpix range of cameras are usually the lower end of the camera company’s selection. They tend to include fixed lenses and limited features, making them the sort of thing that you sling into a bag to er… bag some holiday snaps on your budget walking tour of Italy. The newly-announced Nikon Coolpix P1000 though… it’s something a little different. The Coolpix P1000 is a step up from the company’s P900 superzoom camera, which features a hefty 83x optical zoom — pretty much overkill for a fixed-lens camera — and which will set you back about R10,000 locally. The P1000…

VW’s record-breaking Pikes Peak climb is over before you know it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwZbvPY_4aE Sure it might sound like the world’s largest go-kart (which it is kinda, sorta, related to) but VW’s less-than-eight-minute Pikes Peak climb remains just as impressive as when we were only given the numbers surrounding it. Actually seeing the VW ID R Pikes Peak electric race car ramming its way around corners in a race for the top is something else entirely and gives us a lot of optimism about the future of electric vehicles. You don’t need to poke around in a slow EV if you don’t…

Click through to the Terms and Conditions for the bits where we lay out all our strange requirements (our competition rider, if you like) and then you’re set to pop on down to the entry form and get your entry in. Or, you know, don’t, but entering means that you agree to be bound by the Ts&Cs, unless you work for Stuff Magazine. Sorry, office team (and immediate family) — No Fender goodness for you. If you’re not part of the relatively small list of South Africans not allowed to enter, you can dance those fret-calloused fingers over to our entry form and get…

Debonairs Pizza recently announced that they were partnering up with several local gaming brands, including IGN, Arcade X, and eSports teams White Rabbit Gaming and Sinister 5. To celebrate, Debonairs gave us a R1,000 voucher to give away. What we would do with that much pizza… Eat it, most likely. If we were going to be the recipients of a R1,000 pizza voucher, the biggest question on our minds would probably be: Do we share this one or do we go it alone? And if we’re opting to go it alone, do we try and hammer through the whole thing…

We all know that 5G, the successor to current mobile internet technology 4G, is on its way. The tech, or an early version of it, was in testing in Japan as far back as 2014 and it’s getting ever closer to launch. So close, in fact, that Huawei is going to be launching its first 5G-capable smartphone in 2019. That’s the word according to the company’s Western European Consumer Business Group President, Walter Ji, speaking to tech website T3. Pretty much verbatim, actually, as Ji told the website that “…next year, we’re bringing 5G smartphones into the market”. It doesn’t get…

Sorry, entry-level laptop. You’ve had a good run but smartphones are about to start hitting the market with double your usual RAM allocation. It’s time we said goodbye. And we’re not even kidding, as Chinese smartphone maker Honor has announced the Honor 10 GT — the first smartphone from the company to launch with 8GB of RAM. An upgrade of the Huawei Honor 10, which launched overseas earlier this year in 4GB and 6GB variants, the Honor 10 GT has been announced for China and… nowhere else. The expected launch date is 27 July and the handset will cost more…

Netflix has been testing out a new pricing tier of their streaming service over in Europe, where people aren’t being slammed quite as hard by VAT and petrol price increases. The tests involve creating a new Ultra tier, which will sit above the existing Basic, Standard, and Premium plans. Just what the creation of an Ultra tier involves hasn’t been defined yet. A table has been found showing that Netflix might be locking away HDR content behind the new (and most expensive) pricing option, though reports from around Europe state that there are some differences to be seen in plans…

Have you ever been in a WhatsApp group chat that is used for exactly the opposite of its initial purpose? Or one where the people involved just won’t… stop… talking… about things that are not relevant to the matter at hand. If you’re a parent with a kid in primary school, you might have seen that last one — far too many times. Happily, now WhatsApp lets you create groups that will only allow admins to send messages to the group. It’s ideal for situations where one person, or a small group of them, need to get info out to…

Disney now has autonomous Stuntronics stunt-robots designed to perform during live shows Disney has a lot of things that we’re fond of. Cartoon lions. Superheroes. Jedi. Pirates. As well as all manner of other awesome stuff, which are far too numerous to mention here. And now they’ve got robot stuntmen, who might take the place of human performers during live shows at Disney properties. There’s a whole backstory of the now-autonomous robots, right down to their origins as the BRICK (Binary Robotic Inertially Controlled bricK) through to the Stickman and on to the current, weirdly human-seeming stuntman — see the…