Author: Trent Meikle

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…

Anyone living under a rock for the past week might have missed the release of the highly-regarded Black Myth: Wukong – Game Science’s monkey epic based on Journey to the West. If that’s the case, you can correct course and pick up the game, which released on 20 August. Unless you own an Xbox, of course. That’s right, the next-best Souls-like has yet to arrive on the Xbox Store or see any physical versions printed under the Xbox banner. That won’t be the case forever. Game Science reckons the game will eventually hit Microsoft’s Series S/X consoles. When that’ll be, however, we…

You might remember earlier this year Microsoft announced three “new” Xbox Series X/S consoles before confirming a holiday release. Those consoles are the Series S 1TB (Robot White), Series X 1TB Digital Edition (Robot White), and the Series X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition, now officially up for pre-order (in the US). Sounds good, right? We thought so too. Until we found out that none of those beauties were headed for South Africa. Put your foolish ambitions to rest Three new consoles, endless possibilities 🌌 Pre-order a new Xbox Series X|S today: https://t.co/1EoIR2A8Hx pic.twitter.com/8PFJN0eN7c — Xbox (@Xbox) August 21, 2024…

Geoff Keighley can finally head back to hibernation as the last big gaming event of the year has officially wrapped up. Last night saw Gamescom’s Opening Night Live grace our screens for two or so hours – packed with a whole lot of announcements and trailers, and properly kicked off the 4-day-long Cologne-based event. And the crowd goes mild! https://youtu.be/1Q8WImF649E We still can’t decide what’s funnier, Geoff Keighley’s energetic entry as he exclaimed “This one hasn’t leaked” before throwing up a trailer for Borderlands 4 (yeah, right), or the most lukewarm reaction to a trailer we’ve ever seen from an…

Our prayers have finally been answered. Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, which will see the king of hosting, Geoff Keighley, take centre stage in Cologne, Germany, is officially scheduled to kick off at 20h00 SAST this evening – a far cry from the midnight-or-later showings South African gamers usually have to contend with. Whether Gamescom’s Opening Night Live is worth the watch, however, is entirely up to you. Geoff Keighley, who has returned to emcee the annual event for 2024, has at least given fans a basic idea of what to expect from Opening Night Live, with previews for Black Ops…

The future of motoring is electric. But that’s a game for the first-world countries. The rest of us are primarily concerned with what’s coming next regarding the petrol, diesel and even paraffin prices. Fortunately, we’ve got a fresh batch of predictions from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) to hold us over until the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy adjusts the fuel pumps. As always, that’ll happen on the first Wednesday of the new month. In this case, that’s Wednesday, 4 September, at which, the Department will, if we’re lucky, knock those prices down. According to the CEF’s latest predictions…

It’s finally happened. Those handheld gaming PCs everyone is so infatuated with? Lenovo has officially entered the chat – a little later than the industry’s big hitters like Valve or Asus – but entered nonetheless, taking the form of the Legion Go. It may not have the technical power of the ROG Ally X, or the pizazz of the Steam Deck OLED, but it’s certainly got charisma, moxie, and any other synonym you can think of. That’s something, right? Well, yes. And no. If we’re dropping R16,000 for a piece of tech, we’d preferably like it to have more than…