Author: Trent Meikle

If you missed the news, Nintendo hosted a Switch 1-themed Direct yesterday to make way ahead of the coming Switch 2 deep-dive in April. No matter. We covered five of the biggest announcements during the roughly 30 minutes of footage shown off, failing to mention the best announcement of the night: Virtual Game Cards. We’ve all been there. Your sibling begs to borrow Super Mario Odyssey or something similar, but there’s just no way you’re letting them lay their grubby paws on your Switch OLED, where the game exists digitally. Virtual Game Cards changes all that. Like physical cartridges, players can now ‘lend’ their…

With the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct visible over the horizon, Nintendo took the opportunity to clean out its cupboards of the games just taking up shelf space through a Switch 1-themed Direct, which kicked off at 16h00 local time on Thursday, 27 March. The event showed off roughly 30 minutes of footage, with many hoping for even a glimpse of the elusive red and white insect. No such luck, unfortunately. No matter. We’ve totted up all the biggest announcements from the Direct, leaving the games like Disney Villains Cursed Café to fend for themselves. We’re more interested in the likes of…

What more could you possibly add to a blossoming universe brimming with more than 18 quintillion planets and even more species just begging to be discovered? Judging by the latest update hitting No Man’s Sky, the answer is ancient alien fossils, and the ability to dig them up and display them front and centre in your home. Paleontology has come to No Man’s Sky, in other words. Relics of a time before 2016 https://youtu.be/B3TWSQHaIMw As part of the ongoing seasons-long redemption arc Hello Games is currently riding, even nine years after the release of No Man’s Sky, this free DLC arrives…

Easily one of the worst decisions Amazon ever made was removing the tactile buttons that once adorned the edges of the Kindle e-reader. Since then, users have been forced to besmirch their e-ink displays with a touch of their finger to turn the page or flip back. Now, it seems, the Kindle is going back to its roots. Kinda. As part of a fresh update quietly rolled out targeting Amazon’s newer e-readers, smudgy screens may soon be a thing of the past. Rather than tapping the display to progress, users can now double-tap anywhere on the Kindle’s frame or even…

Nintendo’s goals are beyond our understanding. Clearly. In all its infinite wisdom, and less than a week until the blow-out Switch 2 presentation takes place, the Japanese outfit has seen fit to announce a decidedly Switch 2-less Nintendo Direct, which kicks off this afternoon. That’s Thursday, 27 March, for all you future readers out there. “Tune in tomorrow, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed #NintendoDirect, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation,” Nintendo wrote in an announcement on X/Twitter. Is this goodbye…

Who said 2025 wasn’t the future? Netflix has just announced that it finally supports the increasingly popular HDR10+ format, an upgrade over the basic HDR10 format it previously supported. HDR10+, if you didn’t know, is on par with Dolby Vision, both of which are constantly fighting for your eyeball’s attention wherever you go by providing a higher quality image for your favourite movies and series. There’s just one problem… Netflix makes room for HDR10+ Okay, maybe two. First up – customers will require the weighty Premium plan (R200/m) before they can even think about viewing their shows in HDR10+. And…

Mark your calendars, folks. Apple has set the date for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will kick off on 9 June. Apple has organised an in-person event for people in the States to watch the keynote live from Apple Park, while the rest of us will have to make do with the official livestream channels. WWDC for the W Apple hasn’t given away any secrets of what’s to come at this year’s showing, briefly hinting at some major changes headed to the company’s extensive software lineup. This at least aligns with the current rumours from Bloomberg (via The…

With just over a week to go before the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) adjusts the country’s official petrol and diesel prices for April, the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has provided residents with yet another predictive fuel snapshot, foretelling yet another price decrease across the board for all motorists this April. Not a done deal As ever, the DMRE will officially adjust the pumps on the first Wednesday of the new month. In this case, that’s Wednesday, 2 April. Until then, a lot can change, thanks to the two main economic factors that decide the price of fuel…

Eskom’s 800MWin Remember this moment. Bask in the glow of Eskom’s collective win for South Africa. Rather than disturb the quiet, long weekend with yet another bout of load shedding, Eskom delivered some good news to South African residents. 800MW of energy capacity has officially been added to the national grid. “Eskom is pleased to announce the successful addition of Kusile Power Station’s final unit, Unit 6, to the national grid today at 16:45” the energy provider wrote in a post on X/Twitter on Sunday. “This achievement marks a crucial step toward completing one of South Africa’s largest infrastructure projects…

As if the allure of zero advertisements, a massive catalogue of music, and a host of experimental features weren’t already worth the R72/m price of admission, YouTube has cooked up some new ideas that it hopes will sway fence-sitting customers into making the jump to YouTube Premium. One of those is something it calls Premium Lite, sporting a half-baked array of features for a few bucks less. Another is the promise of higher-quality audio. YouTube turns it up to 11 It’s that last one that’s got us all riled up. As it stands, YouTube’s watchers – regardless of their status…