Author: Trent Meikle

It’s almost time for Geoff Keighley’s annual Kojima bootlicking session, AKA, The Game Awards. And, unlike last year’s showing — which somehow brought Elden Ring back to the conversation — the 2025 GOTY nominees are stacked. From Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to Hollow Knight: Silksong, there’s something for everybody. Silksong sweep at the Game Awards? We’re glad to report that no DLC has slipped through the cracks for the big awards at this year’s show. Shadow of the Erdtree caused a bit of a stir at the 2024 edition, not being a “complete” game, and the fact that the base Elden Ring game already took home…

If you had hoped that the predicted petrol and diesel prices for December 2025 would have seen a drop by mid-November, think again. The Central Energy Fund’s (CEF) latest round of predictions (captured 14 November) paints an even uglier picture for South African motorists — predicting a major 70-84c/l increase for diesel prices. Bad news for petrol prices in South Africa Unfortunately, December’s petrol prices don’t look that much better. The good news is that there’s still plenty of time for South Africa’s fortunes to change. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), which is responsible for adjusting the country’s…

Jack Dorsey’s ‘diVine’ puts human-made slop first It’s been more than seven years since Vine shut down, but not before it helped pave the way for the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels. Many still consider Vine to be the peak of short-form content, challenging creativity by imposing a six-second limit on videos before TikTok put those ideas to bed. And now it’s coming back. Where the likes of TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts are riddled with AI-generated videos in 2025, ‘diVine’, as the reboot is called, emphasises human-only content. Born out of what we’d imagine is boredom, Jack Dorsey…

Disney+ is about to get a whole lot worse. If you had hoped to escape the onslaught of AI-generated slop that seems to plague every social media platform, Disney+ will not be your haven. During the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call for 2025, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed some big, big changes were coming. Disney plus AI? Some of them good — like the addition of “a number of game-like features,” possibly mimicking Netflix’s whole flow, and putting that partnership with Epic Games to good use. Others not so good — like adding user-promted, AI-generated slop for consumers to…

Netflix may have taken a small hiatus from the gaming scene, but it’s back, delivering games to your TV instead of just your mobile phone. Don’t expect anything too big yet. Netflix is focusing its attention on party games that can be easily controlled from a smartphone. No Red Dead Redemption just yet, in other words. Rent can’t be that high, Ken Jeong https://youtu.be/o0vMhc-V4qo Still, we can see these doing well for the streamer. Nearly everyone already subscribes to the streaming giant, which is the only requisite to get hold of its extensive mobile — and now TV — catalogue. From Pictionary to Boggle, Netflix Games got…

In what we hope is the first of many apologies for delaying Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar Games has finally ported the original Red Dead Redemption to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 and… iOS and Android? That’s right — we got Red Dead Redemption on mobile before GTA VI. Plus, it’s coming to Netflix. It’s no GTA VI, but we’ll take anything we can get https://youtu.be/SlkizyzZ8k4 No, really. The game is headed to all the devices we mentioned on 2 December. Players who previously purchased the PS4, Xbox One, or Switch version of the 2010 Game of the Year will get the…

One little R5 increase we can handle. But a second, much larger hike only a couple of months later? Yeah, we’re good, thanks, Spotify. The music streaming giant recently reworked its subscription model, adding a new ‘Premium Platinum’ tier into the mix, which adds Spotify’s “lossless” audio and audiobooks for South Africa. That we can handle, even at the proposed R180/m price. It seems like a fairly good deal, offering three accounts (R60/m for each), lossless audio, offline listening, twelve hours of audiobook listening, AI DJ, and AI playlist creation. It comes at a hefty cost for Spotify’s other tiers,…

Insta360, makers of fine action cameras, just announced a slew of accessories for its 8K-capable Ace Pro 2, one of which will turn it into an instant camera. It’s joined by new lenses, a grip, and some additional Leica colour profiles. Insta360 reckons it’s the first to offer an action-cam-turned-instant-cam, costing £545 (∼R12,200). Polaroid360? “With help from Leica, we’ve redefined the action camera. It’s no longer just for capturing thrilling action sports, it has become a creative tool for serious photography,” said Max Richter, Insta360’s co-founder and VP of marketing (via PetaPixel). At launch, you won’t be able to pick…

After the box-office hit that was The Super Mario Bros. Movie landed on the big screen in 2023, it was only a matter of time until Chris Pratt warmed up those vocal chords to do absolutely nothing Mario-like in a sequel. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is that sequel, and Nintendo has dropped the first trailer. Mario’s fame has reached the skies https://youtu.be/GuCejewteF8 Whatever your thoughts on Nintendo’s first Mario movie, Super Mario Galaxy looks like buckets of fun. How could it not, adapting one of the better Mario games of all time, which launched on the Wii back in the day? Rosalina joins the cast this time around,…

Yesterday was a big day for Valve. Not only did it reveal the Steam Frame, a new bit of VR kit, as we knew it would, but it took us by surprise with the announcement of its Steam Machine. Reviving the old Linux-based, SteamOS-running hardware the world wasn’t ready for back in 2015, it’s a console-like PC wrapped in a tiny black box that’s meant to be hooked up to your TV. With the ol’ Steam library, of course. It’ll need a controller, obviously, and Valve hasn’t disappointed. The Steam Controller is best described as a Steam Deck without that…