Author: Trent Meikle

Comic Con Africa is officially back in Johannesburg, folks. Well, it will be by the time Thursday 26 September rolls around, which is when the cosplaying geek event kicks off at Gauteng’s Johannesburg Expo Centre, spanning the entire weekend until Sunday 29 September. If you didn’t do all too well at maths, that’s four days of geeky goodness involving the country’s best (and unfortunately, worst) cosplayers showing off their talents. It’s a celebration of pop culture involving some of Hollywood’s, er, finest and revelry in the event’s namesake – comic books. Oh, and of course there’s something for the gamers,…

For months, the gaming community’s various leakers have firmly maintained that Sony’s upgraded PS5 is real, will be called the ‘PS5 Pro’ and hit the shelves before the year is out. Despite Sony’s silence on the subject, Dealabs’ own Billbil-kun, a tier 2 leaker, reckons he has now seen an image of the packaging for the PS5 Pro and provided the world with a handy sketch showing off the console for the very first time. Behold, the PlayStation 5 Pro. Kinda. Going Pro Dealabs mentions that while it does currently have an image of the PS5 Pro’s official packaging, it was unable…

Smartwatches that cost more than an actual car are all the rage at the moment. Just look at Apple’s Watch Ultra 2, Samsung’s, er, Galaxy Watch Ultra or the newest timepiece on the block – the Garmin Fenix 8. Amazfit, if the rumours first spotted by Notebookcheck are to be believed, will challenge the paradigm with a budget-beating ‘Ultra-like’ rugged smartwatch of its own. Enter the Amazfit T-Rex 3. Unfortunately, Amazfit has yet to even acknowledge the T-Rex 3’s existence. Thanks to what appears to be a premature listing over on Shopee in Singapore, we’ve at least got an idea of the…

With just a week left before the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy fiddles with the country’s petrol and diesel pumps, the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has hit us with another round of predictions, promising South Africa’s fifth consecutive fuel price drop after the horrendous start to the year. As usual, we’ll need to wait until the first Wednesday of the new month to see those prices actually take effect. In this case, that’ll be next Wednesday, 4 September, after which – barring any major economic waves, both locally and internationally, we could see prices knocked down by as much…

Babe, wake up. Garmin is back. This time with the “toughest watch we’ve built to date,” taking the form of the flagship $1,000 Garmin Fenix 8 supposedly designed to rival Apple and Samsung’s similarly-priced ‘Ultra’ range of smartwatches, but with that Garmin twist. Next to it stands the Garmin Enduro 3, carrying with it a range of upgrades to hopefully help you forget the R22,500 starting price. Rising from the ashes Kitted out with your choice of an AMOLED or a solar charging display, an internal speaker and mic duo, epic diving capabilities, and more than enough battery life to run…

There’s no need to thank us, folks. Just a little over a week after we published our Lenovo Legion Go review, Lenovo has announced an official grip wedge – among other accessories – for those Legion TrueStrike controllers – immediately putting one of our biggest concerns to bed. Coincidence? We’ll let you be the judge of that. “Had Lenovo followed through on the blatant copyright infringement, it’d get a couple of extra points for including a grip for the controllers to hook onto when they’re not on the console itself. That… didn’t happen, and we were left with a floating pair…

September is good for two things. Spring, obviously, and giving Apple another excuse to progress its capitalist regime even further by taking off the wrapper of its latest iPhone. This year, that’ll be the iPhone 16, and judging by the official Apple YouTube channel, it’ll take place on Monday, 9 September at, surprise surprise – 19h00. Hey, we at least got something right. It was initially believed that Apple had laid the groundwork for a Tuesday, 10 September reveal after Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman ran with the story. Considering Gurman’s reliability in the field, we’re still inclined to believe Apple’s intentions to…

Once a year, like clockwork, Tim Cook stands around Apple Park on a roof or in a field to unveil the iPhone (insert bigger number), and maybe some new AirPods and/or Apple Watch, alongside a slew of Pro and Pro Max-touting devices. The event, which is Apple’s biggest showing of the year, usually falls in the early stages of September. 2024 is no different. At least, that’s what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman had to say on the subject. Apple has yet to confirm any official dates – hell, we don’t even have a theme or tagline (AI puns are hard) – but Gurman…

UPDATE – 14:47 – 23 August: In a swift turn of events, FNB already claims to have solved issues causing considerable downtime for its customers, according to a post on the bank’s X account. ORIGINAL: Why is it always a Friday? First, it was CrowdStrike, and now it’s First National Bank’s (FNB) turn to drop the ball. The bank has been struck down by an outage affecting clients nationwide — crippling its major services, and disallowing customers to log into their banking app or make payments, digitally or physically. ATMs too, appear to be causing issues. FNB has officially responded…

Praise be! For those of you Xbox owners just dying to have a go at Black Myth: Wukong before it goes out of fashion, now’s your chance. Gamefinity, South Africa’s PlayStation 5 distributor, has announced a Winter Sale that’ll knock up to R1,500 off the console’s regular asking price. And on payday, too. How kind. Unfortunately, anyone serious about hitting that R1,500 saving will have to put up with looking at the monstrosity that is the launch edition PS5 to help retailers shift some of the ageing stock. If your partner would prefer something that can be tucked away without…