Author: Trent Meikle

Still a bit down after last week’s fuel price predictions? That’s to be expected if you’re a regular buyer of Petrol 93, which was the only petroleum-based fuel to see an expected price increase, while the rest were let off easy. Fortunately, the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has returned with the mid-month fuel price predictions (captured 14 April) that will change your tune by the time May rolls around. Big petrol gains expected in May It’s worth noting that the CEF’s daily predictive snapshots are not law. The CEF, a state-owned energy company reporting directly to the Department of Mineral…

Credit where it’s due; Ubisoft may not have cracked the modern Assassin’s Creed formula, but it knows how to look after its gamers, particularly those who struggle with colourblindness. With these players in mind, Ubisoft just open-sourced Chroma, its in-house colourblind simulation tool, inviting developers to run with it on their own projects and ultimately make the industry that much more inclusive. Colour me impressed Speaking on Chroma’s efficacy, Ubisoft’s director of accessibility, David Tisserand, said that it had proven itself “highly efficient” in developing accurate colour-accurate modes for its library. With an estimated 300 million folks suffering from the affliction,…

MTN really wants to hold onto its coveted top spot in MyBroadband Insight’s next quarterly roundup, huh? Despite already nabbing 1st place for 2024, MTN has announced a partnership with Meta to “enhance the quality and reliability” of services such as WhatsApp – specifically voice and video calls – across 12 countries. “By optimising application-aware networks and network-aware applications, the initiative aims to deliver a more seamless, stable, and high-quality user experience. The collaboration aims to improve real-time calling experiences across 12 markets by pinpointing areas for enhancement and executing specific interventions.” MTN’s got growth The two have collaborated on the project since…

Remember the days when the price of a console slowly tapered off as its maker built up hype for whatever came next? We do. One global pandemic and a trade war later, however, and gaming companies hold all the cards. Just look at Nintendo’s recent greed as proof, or Sony’s latest decision to hike the price of the PS5. Again. “With a backdrop of a challenging economic environment, including high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates, SIE has made the tough decision to raise the recommended retail price (RRP) of the PlayStation 5 console in select markets in Europe, Middle East…

A cheaper Vision Pro? Despite the relatively poor reception to Apple’s take on augmented reality, the Fruit Company isn’t giving up easy. Apple is still on track to release a more affordable Vision Pro, reportedly stuffed with cheaper materials, because the $3,500 starting price didn’t go over well with the folks meant to buy the thing. Those coincide with new rumours that another Vision Pro, designed to hook up to a Mac exclusively, is also in development. These stem from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and his Power On newsletter, who heard that Apple were juggling the development of two Vision Pro devices,…

It’s about time you start thanking our artificially intelligent overlords, even if this is the fourth time today you’ve hassled it for, uh, scantily-clad Sonic generations. OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a memory – a proper one. Rather than saving specific conversations at your discretion, a feature introduced last year as part of the ‘Memory’ update (is that you, Sean Murray?), the chatbot now remembers what you did last summer. If memory serves… long may it continue to do so Starting today, memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on your preferences…

The absolute decline of Pro Evolution Soccer in recent years has left the path clear for EA to turn FIFA (now EA Sports FC) into the gambling empire it always knew it could be. Without a real challenger to EA’s gaming football monopoly, gameplay lay forgotten. That is, until SloClap, the developers behind 2022’s Sifu, decided to take it on with Rematch. Kinda. Rematch is as far from a ‘proper’ footballing sim as it gets, and it’s arguably just the kick up the backside that the genre needed. Fans who want the most detailed match experience can stick with EA Sports FC’s absurd prices and…

E3 as we know it may be dead and buried, but the old congregation of the industry’s elite developers (and even a couple of new ones) hasn’t died out yet. In June alone, when we’d typically have settled in for a long weekend of news, trailers, and releases, gamers have the Summer Games Fest, the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, and now the return of Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to. Now what about the Outer Wilds 2? It may not be the E3 that we remember, but seeing as all three events take place over a…

Hopefully continuing the glorious streak of sci-fi television from Apple TV+ comes Murderbot, a comedic thriller starring the great Alexander Skarsgård and helmed by the brotherly duo of Chris and Paul Weitz, whose storied careers involve the writing and directing of such hits as About a Boy and The Nutty Professor II. Skarsgård: Become Human https://youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs Murderbot looks to fill the Severance-shaped holes in our hearts and our Fridays, with the first two episodes landing on 16 May 2025. The remaining eight episodes of what could potentially be spun into a multi-season series will continue to fill the Friday slot ’til 11 July…

It only took five years and a refreshed partnership with Google, but Samsung’s BB-8-like Ballie robot is finally ready to roll into homes as soon as this Winter. At least in the early stages of Ballie’s life, Samsung will take a big swing at customers in the US, with no mention of an expanded release elsewhere. That’s fine by us. If Ballie is really as bright as Samsung makes it out to be, it might be safer to sit this one out, robotic apocalypse pending. The balls are coming from inside the house “Available to consumers this summer, Ballie will…