Author: Brett Venter

Samsung have always gone all out with their Galaxy lineup, with the devices carrying the same numerals as their flagship having more attention lavished on their development than other, less bright stars. Now, with Samsung’s lineup undergoing a spot of pruning, those Galaxy Mega-Super-Deluxe handsets will possibly be going away. Stalwarts like the ‘mini’ version of the Galaxy S flagships, in this case the Galaxy S5 mini, will probably be sticking around though. Read More: What We Think We Know About The Galaxy S6 But Samsung has its work cut out convincing people that the Galaxy S5 mini is a good…

If you’re a parent and you’ve never ever heard of Skylanders, then you’re probably a parent with a much happier bank account than most – Skylanders is a console game series that features collectible figurines that can, with the help of a ‘portal’ be inserted into the game. Data for the figures is stored on the little plastic statue itself so you can swap them between supported games. But there are a lot of these collectibles available for the various incarnations of Skylanders, an offshoot of the Spryo the Dragon series that made gamers from the Playstation One days very…

Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed IV have both featured new protagonists, Native American Assassin Connor Kenway in the case of AC III and Connor’s grandfather, the pirate Edward Kenway, in the fourth official game in the main series. Both titles also features a whole lot of ship-based combat, which utilised some nifty gameplay mechanics to make pillaging the high seas a lot more fun than the main game. Read More: Assassin’s Creed: Unity Review Bringing us back to the ocean is the third game in the ocean series, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue. This time around however, you’re not playing as…

We’ve lost Toby. Not really, but he’s been away from his desk again so hosting duties for StuffCentral this week were taken over by Liron Segev once again. This week Liron featured Tech Girl Za editor and Sliced Magazine writer Sam Wright as a guest on the show. On the menu this week was a whole laundry list of the latest and greatest in tech, taking us very far from the savage beginnings where internet was something you used to catch fish. As per usual, you can listen to the stream here, or download it for later consumption using a…

It’s been a while since our last giveaway. Too long, in fact, so we’re very pleased that we’re able to give away a new Western Digital My Passport Wireless drive to one lucky winner today. As you might have guessed, entries have closed and it’s about time that we announce the winner of this fantastic device. We have had an impressive number of entries for this one but sadly, like the Highlander, there can be only one. Before we get to the good stuff, as always, here is some detail on how the competition draw works. Winner’s names are drawn randomly…

An Acer tablet – somehow we have trouble connecting those words in our heads. Intellectually we’re well aware that Acer makes tablet hardware but we tend to think of their notebook range in South Africa. Tablets are things that come from Samsung and Apple. Still, Acer have taken a decent crack at the tablet market with this 8-inch Android slate, which packs in some interesting hardware to further our confusion about this device. As unexpected as the Iconia Tab 8 (the A1-840 model, if you’re interested) is, it’s also a lot of fun to use and, by the feel of…

Kyrat is designed to be a playground for the trigger-happy, a place where you can roam the Himalayas fighting off tigers, soldiers, rhinos and elephants to your heart’s content. It’s also going to be a place where nasty things happen, thanks to Pagan Min and his collection of minions who seem just as insane as he is. This is the world of Far Cry 4 and Ubisoft, in keeping with recent tradition and the launch of the game just around the corner, have released another 101 video giving players and potential players an overview of what to expect from their…

We’re one step closer to life imitating art, or life imitating whatever you’d call the films that Michael Bay makes. We’re not snobs, they’re fun. But mankind has reached a space milestone with the landing last night of a probe on a comet as it whizzes through space like a taxi with unlimited fuel. The result of ten years of flight by the Rosetta orbiter, which was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) back in 2004, the Philae lander/probe that touched down on the 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet last night is the culmination of a whole mass of scientific effort. It’s…

It was a mere ten days ago that local Apple supplier Core Group enlightened us concerning the prices for the newest Apple tablet hardware (head on here for a refresher on what a new piece for Fruit will cost you). Prices start at R5,500 for the iPad mini 3 and at R6,700 for the iPad Air 2. And now we have a date, even if it’s a bit short notice. The iPad Air 2 lands in SA from tomorrow, 14 November, so we’re expecting a few extended lunch breaks while people go and upgrades their tablets. The iPad mini 3…

It’s not all that often that we get this much notice when it comes to smartphone releases but Huawei have gone and done it, letting us know that there will be two new phones in their lineup in early 2015. Unfortunately we have not been made privy to any specific launch dates but we do know the price range for the phones – which is something, at least. The handsets in question are Huawei’s Ascend Mate7 and the Ascend G7 LTE, which are a high-end 6-inch (possibly) dual-SIM and a 5.7-inch mid-range-ish phone respectively. The Ascend G7 will arrive with…