Author: Trent Meikle

We’d rather have Starfield (words by Duncan Pike) Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), Sony’s subsidiary in charge of all things PlayStation, recently announced that it will acquire Audeze, an American high-end audio technology company, so that it may “continue innovating when it comes to the audio experience of PlayStation games.” If you consider yourself an audiophile, you’ll already be familiar with Audeze’s planar magnetic headphones. They’re the cans you tell yourself you’d get if you ever won the lotto – its latest flagship, the LCD-5, is currently available in South Africa for R86,400 (down from its usual R115,000). Earlier this week,…

Streaming in South Africa is… fine. We’re still taking our baby steps, slowly catching up to the rest of the world with recent additions like Disney+ and Showmax’s continually evolving homegrown content. When it comes to sports streaming, the country’s fallen woefully behind thanks to SuperSport’s broadcaster monopoly. But that might not be the case for long, at least where rugby is concerned, with the launch of RugbyPass TV – the sport’s “first-ever global streaming platform.” The 2023 Rugby World Cup is set to kick off in France on Friday, 8 September, as the Springboks look to defend their 2019…

MTN has expanded eSIM functionality to prepaid customers. Finally. MTN’s prepaid customers have been awaiting the expansion since 2019, when the operator first launched eSIM support which was initially reserved for its post-paid clients. No longer will the yellow-themed operator’s customers have to suffer the hassles that come with a physical SIM. You know, finding a needle or one of those ejector tools, handling the ever-condensing slab of plastic – you get the idea. It’s not fun. We’ve been expecting an eSIM expansion ever since Vodacom beat MTN to the eSIM punchline, with the operator finally deciding to bite the…

After getting a look at Sony’s not-actually-a-console PlayStation Portal, we’re rearing for something, anything to wash that taste from our mouths. Fortunately, Qualcomm’s rather silent announcement of an update to the Snapdragon G Series, the company’s flagship line-up of gaming-focused chips targeting handheld consoles and mobile devices, was exactly what the doctor ordered. The talk of the town Qualcomm initially announced the G3x Gen 1 back in 2021, which eventually found a home inside the Razer Edge. Now, the American semiconductor manufacturer’s got three new chipsets on the market – the Snapdragon G1 and G2, though it’s the flagship G3x…

Remember 2017? Those days when Nintendo’s Switch was the console to own – allowing players to a) play Breath of the Wild and b) play Breath of the Wild wherever they wanted. Since then, there’s been a scramble from nearly every tech company out there to cash in on the handheld hype left in the Switch’s wake. Sony is the latest company to enter the gauntlet with the PlayStation Portal, a handheld “console” that gets it so wrong, we had to check Sony wasn’t celebrating April Fool’s late. Not the Portal we wanted, but the Portal we’re getting We’ve known…

X Pro Block X, the app formerly known as Twitter, is yet again making headlines. This time ‘round, Musk is attempting to remove the block feature because… this is Elon Musk we’re talking about. “Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs,” the billionaire said in a reply on Friday, followed up by “It makes no sense.” Obviously, Musk’s tweet stirred up the sort of outrage you’ll only find on X, with many users making their thoughts known. Musk’s ideas on the block “feature” were known as early as June, when he said “Blocking public posts…

Stuff has spent a lot of time with Acer in 2023, most recently with the Predator Helios Neo 16 – a monster gaming laptop that left us wanting more. The next device we received from the company is something we weren’t expecting – the Travelmate P2. An entry-level notebook that’s all business. Seriously. Regular people can’t even buy this thing. There are TravelMate’s out there that you could buy if you really wanted. Those have better processors too. If you must have the model we got to play with, the one with a 13th-gen Intel Core i3-1315U processor shoved inside,…

When it comes to Tecno, you’re not supposed to expect anything more than a budget device. That way, you can act all surprised when it ends up being half-decent. That was the case for Tecno’s Spark 8C in 2022; it hasn’t changed for the Spark 10 5G. It’s a budget device in every sense, immediately noticeable in its lightweight all-plastic construction. But when it’s light in your hand, there’s a good chance it’ll be light on your wallet too. Coming in at R5,000, the Spark 10 5G fits the bill. Here’s what you’re getting for your money. Plastic (is) back, man…

Today’s children are… unrelenting. Yeah, that’s a good word. If it isn’t a plea for more V-Bucks, they’re taking up all of the family PlayStation’s free time. Or worse – spending all your money right under your nose. Fortunately, Sony’s got features built into its consoles that’ll allow parents to monitor what a child plays, buys, or does Unfortunately, the process for each isn’t quite as straightforward as you might’ve hoped. For one, it requires the parent to do some of the grunt work on the web – which may look like hieroglyphics to some. It can’t all be done…

Not looking so Slim, PS5 We’ve known about Sony’s incoming PS5 Slim for quite some time now. Though the Japanese conglomerate has yet to confirm the console’s existence, it’s glaringly obvious that Sony has a revised console up its sleeve. Heck, even Microsoft weighed in on the console’s possible 2023 release. Thanks to a recent leak, we’ve gotten a first look at the not-so-slim ‘PS5 Slim.’ The leak, courtesy of Better Way Electronics (BWE) – an Australian PlayStation repair specialist – showed off what appears to be the shell of the (possibly) incoming console. It’s got what looks like a…