Author: Trent Meikle

It was nice while it lasted. We’d become so used to the idea of South Africa’s petrol and diesel prices going down on a regular basis that the latest predictive snapshots from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) came as a bit of a shock. Captured 16 June 2025, the CEF predicts that South Africa is in for its first fuel price increase in months. Grab those petrol pitchforks Fortunately, the numbers are still relatively small, at least for now. The CEF’s figures, while the most accurate available, are not official. On the first Wednesday of every month, the Department of…

Well, it finally happened. Ads are officially coming to WhatsApp. Not that we’re altogether surprised. We, and plenty of others, have been awaiting this day ever since Meta (then Facebook) acquired the messenger in 2014, although a decade later, we did hope that Meta might leave this one facet of its business untapped and pure. That was… naive. Despite the various teasers that advertisements were headed to WhatsApp over the years, we still fell victim to the idea of a truly free social media. That’s no longer possible after Meta announced today that ads, alongside new features like channel subscriptions…

Say what you will about Amazon — that it’s spying on you, the working conditions are abysmal, and its CEO may just be a reptile — but you can’t deny it knows how to look after its gamer customers. Every month, those with an Amazon Prime subscription (Prime Video will suffice) unlock access to a bunch of free games — some of them even good. June is one of those months. And claiming them is as simple as hitting copy and paste a few times. On the menu this month is Tomb Raider Remastered I-III, a reimagining of the iconic series…

It may not have the prestige that something like the Summer Games Fest or Xbox Showcase does, but Konami’s Press Start event did at least bring some good news for Silent Hill fans: a remake of the original 1999 survival horror title for the PlayStation is in the works. It’s getting the same treatment as the insanely popular Silent Hill 2, with Bloober Team returning to the fold to handle all the nitty gritty remake bits. Running up that Silent Hill It’s no Guns of the Patriots remake, but we also learned that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is getting a multiplayer mode called Fox Hunt,…

It takes a lot of effort to properly curate an Instagram profile these days. Unless you’re tuned in from the very beginning, there’s likely something on there that shouldn’t be, messing up the vibe of your profile. You can always delete and re-post an image, but who wants that hassle? Instagram’s idea to just let users mess around with their own profile grids feels more elegant. And it’s coming soon. We think. “I want Instagram to be a place where people come together over creativity. To do so, we need to evolve as creativity evolves. I want Instagram to be…

There’s still another year to go before the world’s best international teams go head to head, but for the next month, FIFA is bringing us the next best thing: the FIFA Club World Cup. 32 teams — one of which is South Africa’s own Mamelodi Sundowns — will take each other on to compete for the title of best club in the world. And Showmax will bring all 63 matches to its mobile-only Premier League tier, free of charge. Showmaxing pitches in for the Club World Cup Kicking off this Sunday, 15 June at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami,…

If the news that Meta’s AI was coming for your private WhatsApp chats wasn’t bad enough, the company is currently working on AI-powered message summaries, spotted (as usual) by WABetaInfo. Rather than deal with Aunt Marge directly, you can just have WhatsApp’s AI summaries give you the goods. What’s to stop you from tasking ChatGPT to simply reply to her, too? Because that worked out so well for these guys. In conclusion, no thanks Even if the threat of a network outage isn’t likely for regular folk, WhatsApp’s test raises some moral quandaries. We’d sooner have a close friend or family member…

As DStv continues to fall victim to streaming rivals like Netflix and Disney+ (and its own pricing scheme), MultiChoice has launched an investigation that may eventually result in the unbundling of SuperSport from the rest of DStv, in a desperate bid to drive up subscriber numbers. And it just might work. This will not offer potential customers the chance to subscribe to a sports-only package, however much we might want it to. MultiChoice’s strategy involves unbundling SuperSport from the entertainment side of DStv, allowing customers to pick up a smaller, cheaper entertainment plan, and ‘bolt on’ the sports they do…

The Nintendo Switch 2 is barely a week old, and we’ve been having a blast. Others, maybe not so much. Users haven’t reported any game-breaking bug that’ll keep you from using the console, but a smaller, more irksome bug does appear to have slipped through. A small handful of users are reporting that their Switch 2 displays a lower battery level than is actually available. This leads to fewer hours spent in Mario Kart, and nobody wants that. Bitten by the Switch 2 battery bug It’s not as though the Switch 2 has hours upon hours of charge to fall…

Don’t believe everything you see on Reddit, kids. Despite numerous calls to boycott Nintendo’s Switch 2 launch due to the R12,500 ($450) price, the console has already blown passed a major milestone: 3.5 million units sold within its first four days on the market, according to Nintendo. That’s faster than any console… ever. Nintendo Switch 3.5 million #NintendoSwitch2 has sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four days, becoming the fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever globally. pic.twitter.com/JNrl3Z92pv — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 11, 2025 For reference, the PS5 sold 4.5 million units in its first seven weeks (and 2.1…