Author: Brett Venter

Depending on your level of skill and/or patience the upcoming Bloodborne from From Software, which is due to launch on the PlayStation 4 at the end of March this year, is either going to make your gaming session or break you completely. Read More: Dark Souls II review That’d be because From Software is best known for their Souls series of games, which offer a substantial challenge to a certain type of gamer. With Bloodborne, they’ve taken their distinctive gameplay style and expanded it somewhat to include a (slightly) more narrative-capable location – though we’d expect even this latest release…

Is your Nintendo 3DS looking a little tired? Thumb-stick a bit worn? Buttons dented with the markings worn off? In short, it is time for a replacement? You’re in luck, Nintendo will be bringing their updated 3DS and 3DS XL handheld consoles to South Africa a little later this month, on 13 February. The consoles will be available on their own or as part of a bundle. The two bundles that are landing are for the 3DS XL and one will feature The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask as well as a console featuring artwork from the game. The second…

Le Mans is known for several things: a famous accident, 24 hour endurance races and the Bugatti Circuit. You’ll notice that all of these are related to motorsports and that’s hardly surprising. The 24 Hours of Le Mans race is perhaps the only race consumed predominately though highlight reels (unless you’re a super-fan) but it’s also one of the toughest in the world. It’s especially gruelling for the vehicles that are specially constructed to take on the extended affair. Nissan is one automotive company that are planning on challenging Le Mans this year in June and they’ve revealed some of…

Vodacom’s taking its next step in building up a local portfolio of self-branded devices, the third such device since the Smart Kicka phone and Smart Tab 3G tablet launched last year. This time around we’ve got a new phone incoming and the Vodacom Smart 4 Turbo, as it is known, will be LTE-capable. The low-cost device (it’ll retail for around R1,500) will feature a 4.5-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) display, 1GB of RAM and a Qualcomm MSM8926 chip, a 1.2GHz quad-core member of the Snapdragon family. Looking elsewhere, there’s set to be 4GB of storage built-in, though we’d expect the…

If you take a look at the current virtual reality trend, many companies are behaving like a dog chasing a bus – what would they do if they caught the blasted thing? Oculus Rift has a whole lot of developers on board but just about everyone else seems to be doing it because they can. So what would you use a consumer VR headset for, exactly? Particularly one designed around a smartphone as a screen? If you’re Samsung, you’re going to be putting them onto Quantas flights and in Quantas’ First Class Lounge in Sydney, at least to start with. Samsung…

Is it possible that tablets are coming to a saturation point? Er… probably not, given how popular the little handheld devices actually are but they have had their first worldwide slip, according to the IDC (International Data Corporation. You see, tablets actually had a pretty good year in 2014, with global sales up by 4.4% (that’s just shy of 230 million tablets sold across the board last year) but that’s in spite or, not thanks to, the last quarter of 2014. All of the majors saw a decline in tablet sales in the last part of last year, compared to…

There are times when a GoPro is understandably in use. You’re on a motorcycle and about to ramp over a massive gap that has crocodiles at the bottom and delicious cake on the other side of it. That’s when you’re almost obligated to have an action-cam on hand, even it it’s just for insurance purposes. But there hasn’t been much compelling reason to whip out a GoPro while you’re strolling down the street until now. Enter the CAMpanion, a GoPro mount that lets you attach your camera to the back of a smartphone or a tablet. The point is to…

What’s next from Samsung? The company themselves are teasing their latest Unpacked event, which will be taking place on 1 March this year, and it looks as though there are going to be some curves in store. That is based upon the official teaser image released by the company, though there’s no indication of what it might be. It could be a curved smartphone, indeed Engadget notes that the curve resembles part of the Galaxy Note Edge. But the Edge has already been revealed so it’s likely to be something else. The smart money is on the Galaxy S 6,…

We’re going to start you off with a content warning, which you’ll have hopefully read before starting to buffer the reveal video above. There’s some quite graphic content in the gameplay above – if you’re a Mortal Kombat fan, you’ll know what to expect. If you’re a newcomer, you might need to avert your eyes. That said, the video above is our first look at the return of Reptile, the lizard-man with the very nasty saliva. He’s the latest addition to the upcoming Mortal Kombat X, and this gameplay video (which ends in Reptile winning his bout, obviously) is NetherRealm…

How do you test the communications system for a car that is expected (hopefully) hit speeds of 1,600km/h? It’s dangerous enough to take a vehicle like the Bloodhound with a jet engine into the desert, using it for a test isn’t the greatest idea you can have. There is a solution that doesn’t mean endangering your supersonic vehicle and the team behind the Bloodhound SSC have just released a video showing what is the most extreme data connection test we’ve ever witnessed. What they’ve done is take two road vehicles, the Jaguar F-TYPE R Coupé and a Jag XF, and…