Author: Trent Meikle

Supergiant Games just dropped Hades II without any prior warning. Technically, the roguelike is still in early access — so unless you’re repping the PC Master Race, you’ll have to make do with watching the new trailer until the game is completely ‘ready’ Got a PC? You can pick it up on Steam or the Epic Games Store for R270. Uh, now. So… what are you still doing here? Are you paying attention, Team Cherry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miu_akSity4 If you’re still hanging around here, we’re going to assume a few things about you. One: you’re at work and already counting down the minutes until…

It’s alive, it’s ALIVE! Nintendo just casually ‘announced’ the “successor to the Nintendo Switch” on a random Tuesday morning through an even more random post on X.com. Kinda. The post, apparently coming from Shuntaro Furukawa, the President of Nintendo, confirms that the Japanese conglomerate will unveil the now seven-year-old console’s successor “within the fiscal year.” Switching up on March This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will…

Samsung’s line-up of mid-rangers — the A55 5G and A35 5G —  are now official in South Africa. Uh, more official than they were in March when you could pick up both devices from Vodacom (on contract only), at least. Samsung officially brought the A Series to life in Johannesburg, where the South Korean manufacturers basked in the glory of Cassper Nyovest, Kamo Mphela and Youngsta CPT — the faces of the A Series. I am the Samsung who Knox https://youtu.be/DgSUEmGKXVU If those names mean nothing to you, you’re probably in the right place. We’re more interested in the tech…

Say hello to DEMOCRACY From once being the darling of the gaming world, to instantly becoming one of the most hated, Sony’s Helldivers II spent the weekend speedrunning (and then rectifying) their game’s death, which was heralded as one of 2024’s best. This morning Sony confirmed that it has rescinded its short-lived rules that required players on Steam to hook up a PSN account before they can start whooping bug behinds. All in the name of democracy, of course. For those that haven’t kept up, Helldivers II — a Sony product — graced the Steam store with its presence when it launched earlier this…

When Nothing brought to life its second smartphone — the insipidly-named Nothing Phone (2) — we won’t pretend it didn’t sting just a smidge. While the rest of the world was digging into the Phone 2, we were stuck with the country’s reliably expensive grey importers to bring the devices in. That’s changing soon. The flagship Nothing Phone (2) and mid-range Phone (2a) are launching in South Africa as soon as June of this year. Nothing 2 it https://youtu.be/oieVN1CLOaw We usually hold off on our thoughts on a phone’s design until the device is in hand. When it comes to…

If you’re still reeling from Vivo’s flagship V30’s R20,000 price tag, the Chinese manufacturer’s latest mid-ranger, the Y38, quietly unveiled in Taiwan, might be more your speed. There’s just one problem: Vivo has yet to officially ‘announce’ the smartphone, meaning it hasn’t been formally cleared for arrival in other markets. All we have is a landing page for the Y38 on the company’s Taiwanese website appearing on a random Thursday afternoon with almost no fanfare to accompany it. We wouldn’t worry about it, however. Vivo’s Y-Series has long been a staple of Vivo South Africa’s smartphone bouquet, and we don’t…

If you thought Spotify’s freemium model was weak before, just know that it could always get worse. The streamer’s latest change proves that. Spotify wants those freeloading customers to pony up for access to the platform’s lyrics feature according to Android Authority who first noticed the changes. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. For one, Spotify has been stripping the freemium model for years, rendering the final product almost unusable. And two, it “told” us as much when it first began experimenting with the idea of paywalling lyrics back in September last year. We were lucky enough to escape their wrath…

Look, if we were consistently pulling down scores of two from Wordle daily, we’d also spend the morning bragging about it to our nearest coworkers. But what happens when they inevitably tire of your incessant back-pats? You assert dominance and challenge them to something new, and display it on LinkedIn for everyone to see. At least we think that’s what LinkedIn was going for when it released a slew of Wordle-like games on its site. Let’s circle back and take this online Those games are Pinpoint, Crossclimb and Queens. Like any Worlde-like worth their salt, these are designed to only take a…

When Communities first rolled out onto WhatsApp, the lack of any substantial organisational features felt like a missed opportunity. Meta evidently felt the same, having just updated the messenger to include features that’ll help Communities (and groups) stay on top of things — like planning events and better replies. Better late than never, huh? The idea is to fix a real issue on WhatsApp: how often does your group chat dabble in hypotheticals when it comes to putting together a straightforward meetup, all for it to fall apart thanks to the few who need to be inundated with reminders before…

There’s no denying that Showmax is one of the best homegrown products South Africa has seen in years. Much of that praise deservedly goes to the streamer’s new partners — Comcast’s NBC Universal — a prolific figure within the media entertainment industry. Showmax, to its merit, lowered prices, refreshed the app and put a whole lot more content on there. And now, it’s the first streamer in South Africa to get its hands on Barbenheimer. If you spent the better part of 2023 under a rock (we get it, Tears of the Kingdom was pretty good), you might’ve missed a…