Author: Nick Cowen

Microsoft has unveiled its brand new Xbox Stereo Headset — a wired and more affordable version of its Xbox Wireless Headset that was launched earlier this year. Available for pre-order right now, the new headset comes in at an R1,200, which is substantially cheaper than the Xbox Wireless Headset (R1,800) and you’ll never need to wait for it to recharge – cuz, ya know, it’s plugged into your gaming rig through a 3.5mm jack. Microsoft Xbox Stereo Headset features Boasting the same lightweight design as its wireless counterpart, the headset has an adjustable headband with comfortable cushioning fashioned for heads of…

When Back 4 Blood was announced back in 2019, the news was met with joyous rapture from players who remember Left 4 Dead (and its sequel) back in the day. Those who never played Turtle Rock’s two zombie apocalypse shooters may have just shrugged, which is fair enough. After all, given the number of zombie apocalypse games available, what’s there to get excited about when yet another one is announced? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqgU1PQNKI But for the Left 4 Dead faithful, the eventual arrival of a four-player co-op zombie shooter was something they’d been looking forward to for years. The Left 4 Dead…

Looking at the current release schedule for the games industry, one might be under the impression that 2021 has been a bit of a thin year for games. The last seven months backs up this point of view. Have there been any new arrivals – whether it be a new IP or a new Triple-A franchise instalment – that have really shot the lights out? Well, yes there have, even if recalling them to mind takes a little time. This year has seen some very good games land and as we roll towards the madness of the latter year release…

Welcome to the ‘metaverse’. The place where offline and online collide. A place where the internet and real-world overlap, where users co-exist in both spaces in all waking hours. Or something. Depending on how old you are, the above prospect sounds like a natural extension of your existence, a nightmare, or a sci-fi concept from the early 1990s – first coined by Neal Stephenson in his awesome novel Snow Crash. It may be all three. The metaverse initiative In the last week, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the social media giant’s next initiative, calling it the ‘metaverse’. As he puts…

So, farewell to thee, Titanfall 2. You have broken my heart. I’ve deleted you, reinstalled you and checked all the trouble-shooting information you have to offer. I still can’t jump into a multiplayer game. There is no reason for you to take up drive space on my console. Titanfall 2: a sad goodbye Let me be clear on this: Titanfall 2 is – in my humble opinion – the best First-Person-Shooter (FPS) game released in the last decade. Yes, better than DOOM. Better than Bulletstorm. Better than any Battlefield or Call Of Duty game you care to mention. Respawn’s shooter…

Imagine I could come into your home. Imagine I could record anything you had to say and take any of your pictures and give them to whomever I chose. Imagine I could read your emails, your SMS’s, your conversations on WhatsApp, or Telegram, or Signal, or any other applications you were using under the proviso that they were encrypted. Imagine I had access to your smartphone and you would be none the wiser. Imagine I could take anything you were doing on your smartphone and bend it to my will. That’s what one can do with Pegasus and the company that…

Hello Pegasus. We should have been expecting you. After all 2021 hasn’t been the greatest of years has it? This year we’ve been bombarded with news about the tech sector dropping the ball repeatedly, hackers doing what hackers do and most recently in South Africa we’ve seen wide-spread looting and what has been reported as an attempted insurrection. So Pegasus should be right at home in the news cycle. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get any worse. Meet Pegasus In case you’re in the dark as to what Pegasus is, it’s a piece of spyware that’s capable of swanning past…

As the dust settled on South Africa’s most recent weekend (10th and 11th July 2021) and news coverage emerged today that looting has continued unabated, many are probably taking stock in a state of shock and horror at the events that are unfolding. Over the last five days, protests in KZN – which were ostensibly against the jailing of former SA President Jacob Zuma – have spread to parts of Gauteng, bringing with them violence, looting and damage to property, vehicles and parts of the country’s infrastructure. Those not directly involved in the violence – or in the neighbourhoods where…

If you’re moving home, the last thing on your mind may be that you should put in a call to Vumatel before you do. Or at least, put in a call to your ISP, since Vumatel’s call centres all closed down at the beginning of this year. It might sound odd suggesting this — after all, it’s not like either your ISP or Vumatel are going to help you pack and unpack your life from cardboard-box-hell when the move happens, but stay with me and hear some tales of woe. Vumatel line blocked I recently moved from a flat to…

Facebook has announced a piece of very good news for South Africans. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. Regular readers may think we have it in for Mark Zuckerburg’s platform, but that isn’t true; we at Stuff simply write stories we think our readership would like to know about – and let’s face it, Facebook hasn’t had exactly the best year in this regard. So it’s rather refreshing to be able to write that this week the social media giant has expanded both its tools and policies to provide users with ‘unprecedented’ transparency and functionality when it comes to ads…