Author: Trent Meikle

If you thought you could escape the seemingly endless reach of artificial intelligence by journeying to the very depths of the tablet pool, think again. Even Oppo, the talents of which typically include decent budget and mid-range devices, is sticking AI into the most six-thousand-Randest tablet out there, the Oppo Pad SE. Ignore all its shortcomings, for want of a better word, and the Pad SE makes a case for being a decent, though not exactly budget, tablet. It won’t boot up Assassin’s Creed or Resident Evil anytime soon, or ever, for that matter, but it should make for a decent Netflix streamer…

Now that we’ve spent roughly two weeks in the company of the Nintendo Switch 2, we have some thoughts. One of those is ‘When can we get back to playing The Wind Waker?’ and another is ‘Why do squids look like that?’ We don’t have those answers as we’ve spent so much of our energy focusing on the Nintendo Switch 2 — specifically Mario Kart World — the only ‘proper’ title the console has. Nobody’s lookin’ at you, Welcome Tour. Like a devious parent, we’re gonna rip the loose tooth out quickly. Two more weeks with the Switch 2 weren’t…

In a rather strange turn of events, Netflix, once championed for ‘ending’ the tyrannical reign of broadcast TV, is now entering the space itself. Kinda. As reported by the Financial Times, Netflix has found itself in a “landmark deal” with French television network TF1 to bring the broadcaster’s traditional content line-up to Netflix, effectively saving it from this hardcore streaming era, which it helped build. Netflix will show all five of TF1’s traditional ‘linear’ channels on its own platform starting 2026, including major live sports and shows like The Voice — but only for those users in France. It’ll also hand…

We don’t need to sugarcoat it. Google’s Veo 3 model, which lets anyone with enough disposable income generate move-level visuals (not to mention the voices to go along with them) from nothing, is perhaps one of the most advanced and terrifying things we’ve yet seen to come out of this AI era. And now it’s coming to YouTube. Don’t slip in the AI slop Specifically, YouTube Shorts. Instead of, uh, banishing the ‘AI slop’ plaguing the platform in recent months, Google is bolstering it with the addition of Veo 3. Before, Veo 3 was limited to the folks willing to pay…

It’s almost a given at this point that Samsung would re-emerge from its hibernation by the time July rolls around for its next big Unpacked event, and the South Korean outfit has not disappointed. While we’re still awaiting official word from the horse’s mouth, leaker Evan Blass (@evleaks) reckons the date is set: 9 July 2025. Samsung’s gonna Fold (no, not like that) That’s comically close to last year’s mid-year Unpacked, which fell on 10 July 2024 and saw the company reveal the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 6 devices, a new Ultra Watch, and plenty more besides. Whether Samsung…

South Africa has made history, both by entering the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time — thanks to the Mamelodi Sundowns — as well as the team nabbing a very decisive win this morning, ensuring it’ll have more eyes on it by the time it’s ready to play against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, 21 June. To make it easier for Saffas, Hisense is offering its customers the chance to watch the entire tournament live, entirely for free. You’ll need a VIDAA-equipped Hisense or Toshiba smart TV to take advantage, however. That decades-old Hisense TV still plaguing your guest…

It was nice while it lasted. We’d become so used to the idea of South Africa’s petrol and diesel prices going down on a regular basis that the latest predictive snapshots from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) came as a bit of a shock. Captured 16 June 2025, the CEF predicts that South Africa is in for its first fuel price increase in months. Grab those petrol pitchforks Fortunately, the numbers are still relatively small, at least for now. The CEF’s figures, while the most accurate available, are not official. On the first Wednesday of every month, the Department of…

Well, it finally happened. Ads are officially coming to WhatsApp. Not that we’re altogether surprised. We, and plenty of others, have been awaiting this day ever since Meta (then Facebook) acquired the messenger in 2014, although a decade later, we did hope that Meta might leave this one facet of its business untapped and pure. That was… naive. Despite the various teasers that advertisements were headed to WhatsApp over the years, we still fell victim to the idea of a truly free social media. That’s no longer possible after Meta announced today that ads, alongside new features like channel subscriptions…

Say what you will about Amazon — that it’s spying on you, the working conditions are abysmal, and its CEO may just be a reptile — but you can’t deny it knows how to look after its gamer customers. Every month, those with an Amazon Prime subscription (Prime Video will suffice) unlock access to a bunch of free games — some of them even good. June is one of those months. And claiming them is as simple as hitting copy and paste a few times. On the menu this month is Tomb Raider Remastered I-III, a reimagining of the iconic series…

It may not have the prestige that something like the Summer Games Fest or Xbox Showcase does, but Konami’s Press Start event did at least bring some good news for Silent Hill fans: a remake of the original 1999 survival horror title for the PlayStation is in the works. It’s getting the same treatment as the insanely popular Silent Hill 2, with Bloober Team returning to the fold to handle all the nitty gritty remake bits. Running up that Silent Hill It’s no Guns of the Patriots remake, but we also learned that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is getting a multiplayer mode called Fox Hunt,…