Author: Brett Venter

If you’re going to subscribe to a gaming service these days, you might as well get something out of it besides just multiplayer access — that seems to be the thinking of both Microsoft and Sony. We’ve already seen what the Xbox team has to offer for this month, now let’s check out what the PlayStation fans have awaiting them for June 2018. And honestly, PlayStation Plus subscribers are getting the better deal this month. There are three solid games up for grabs, as well as one absolutely stellar option. The only folks who are in for any kind of…

The Resident Evil series is divided, in its early days, into three parts. First there’s the one that started it all (and those damned window-dogs) and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, the one where we managed to conquer our fears. Resident Evil 2, on the other hand, is the one that kept us awake at night. Not much has changed, we guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxJtQa6VSw We’ve known about the Resident Evil 2 remake since 2015, so it’s not like the E3 reveal during Sony’s lengthy presentation is a surprise. What is surprising is just how good Capcom has managed to make this one look.…

CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 is looking even more amazing than we expected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2kIfS6fb8 Future media, take note: This is what a cyberpunk game should look like — though CD Projekt’s new trailer for Cyberpunk 2077, a title that has been in development for some time now, is a little brighter than we were expecting. Not that it matters, since they’ve manage to capture the cyberpunk aesthetic regardless. From idyllic luxury lives (for those who can afford it) to short and brutal endings in the darkness, this is looking like Bladerunner: The Video Game (no, not the Westwood point-and-click) — though with…

Electronic Arts managed to do what fans have been asking for for some time AND managed to annoy the lot of them at the same time at their pre-E3 presentation. EA announced the return of the Command and Conquer franchise with Command and Conquer Rivals — and then they revealed that the previously-PC series was moving to mobile. Unit Lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyNXQpAFQJc The reveal trailer harks back to the days when Command and Conquer was a strategic RTS (real-time strategy) title split up by FMV sequences. You can see a slightly washed-out grainy effect in the video above that has been…

We’re pretty sure that E3 is only taking place next week but it’s bound to be a massive event, given how many announcements have taken place already. Most of these are just to get smaller reveals out of the way for the real roster but the unmasking of IO Interactive’s Hitman 2 may have been prompted by a slight leak of the game. IO Interactive, who are partnering with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for this release, have since confirmed that Hitman 2 (which is not the same thing as Hitman 2: Silent Assassin) is going to be launching shortly –…

Spam calls are a running joke at the Stuff offices. Do you just stare at an unusual phone number on your smartphone screen with dread, wondering whether this is the telemarketer who just hangs up, if there’s nothing but dead air, a robot voice or — horror of horrors — perhaps it is a cold-caller attempting to sell you something you don’t want or need. No matter, we wind up making fun of the calls anyway. But how do you handle them in a way that doesn’t just consist of mockery? For spam calls you’re basically resigned to installing something…

How many spiders are too many? If you’re arachnophobic, just the thought of them can be overwhelming. In the Marvel universe, you probably can’t have a surplus. Spider-Man meets Spider-Man meets… Spider-Gwen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, an upcoming animated film from Sony. And Sony may have… done something decent with the Spider-Man franchise with this one. Peter Parker, the original Spider-Man, meets up with Ultimate Marvel’s Miles Morales and Earth-65’s Spider-Gwen in a film that… we’re not really sure what’s going on, based on the trailer, but it sure does have a lot of heroes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Hbz2jLxvQ What we do…

Smartphone notifications are the bane of modern existence (yes, really). They pull us out of tasks that require concentration, they distract us from conversation, they prevent lengthy cogitation, they get in the way of effective mastication, and they even interrupt your somnambulation. Okay, not that last one specifically, but it’s no surprise that the likes of Google (in the shape of the upcoming Android P) and now Apple (in the shape of iOS 12, which will be out later this year) have decided to do something about this. Notifications: FOMO Negation Apple’s making a subtle change to notifications in the iOS…

iOS 12 wasn’t the only thing that Apple showed off to the world last night — there was also a first look at the company’s newest desktop operating system: macOS Mojave. Or, if you want to be quite dry and specific, macOS 10.14. But what does the new OS entail? We’ve got a rundown of the best incoming features here. Into The Desert The first, most obvious, and perhaps most useless change is in the name. We’ve moved away from beaches with improbably large waves and mountainous features to something a little hotter. During the day, that is. 2018’s macOS…

There’s nothing wrong with a little history lesson every now and then, provided its an interesting one. In the June 2018 issue of Stuff Magazine, you’ll find a historical collection of the cellular phones that have paved the way for the amazing pocket computers we all have (and want) today. From the very earliest examples to the iPhone that changed it all to the phones that… didn’t do so well, we’ve got all the devices that charted the course of history. And if all that history has got you down, we’ve got something a little more modern to perk you…