Author: Trent Meikle

After what was truly a rough 2024 for Sonos, the audio specialists have something big planned for 2025, and it isn’t what you might think. According to a report from The Verge, Sonos is gearing up to release its very own TV box in 2025. One that won’t just slap the Sonos logo on something from Skyworth’s catalogue and call it a day. Putting Sonos on TV Codenamed Pinewood, Sonos’ big ideas involve a streaming device that could cost customers between $200-$400 (R3,700-7,400) a pop, blowing every single other product in this category out of the water. If the rumours…

There are few things better in life than sitting down to a 13h00 bout featuring your favourite English football team going up against its bitterest rivals. We can picture it now: a cold beverage in hand (with more stashed nearby), a large-screen TV blaring, and some food on its way. Throw in one of your team’s defenders scoring a last-minute header to give you the edge over your mates in Fantasy Premier League and you’ve got yourself a perfect Saturday. We can’t exactly help out with that last bit (other than to tell you not to triple-captain Jan Bednarek), but…

Smartwatches are fast becoming the norm, so it was almost inevitable that someone would eventually kit out their wrist with a wearable console. Whether the idea is a good one is debatable, but a Reddit user by the name of u/ZenonDesingk has gone ahead and done it anyway, claiming a stable 60fps in games like GTA: Vice City and Clash of Clans, even managing to get Forza Horizon 4 up and running. What about Crysis? This is just a regular smartwatch? No. byu/ZenonDesingk inGalaxyWatch It’s an incredible, somewhat useless achievement that commits the cardinal sin of not booting up Doom on…

Anyone hoping for even a slight reprieve at South Africa’s fuel pumps this February will want to shut their eyes immediately and head to the nearest petrol station as soon as physically possible (with your eyes open, we hope). The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has published the official fuel price adjustments for February 2025 and, as expected, they’re not what we’d call pretty. As is tradition, the new prices won’t hit South Africa’s pumps until the first Wednesday of the new month, falling on 5 February. That leaves South Africans plenty of time to get their affairs…

Excellent news for load-shedding The rather short nightmare is officially over. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Eskom suspended load shedding, a day earlier than was initially predicted. The energy company announced the departure in a post on X, noting that it had managed to restore its emergency reserves following ten load-shedding-free months. Eskom first announced the return to rolling blackouts on Friday, 31 January, stating that several breakdowns – requiring full repairs – forced the company to rely on its energy reserves. With repairs on five coal-fired generation units now complete (adding 2,930MW back to the grid) and…

UPDATE (31/01/2025): Only a few hours after Eskom issued this warning, it was confirmed that the energy company will bring back load shedding to South Africa, ten months after it was suspended. Stage 3 will come into effect at 17h00 on Friday, 31 January 2025. Eskom has not yet confirmed how long load shedding will stick around for just yet. ORIGINAL STORY: The day that South Africans have dreaded for nearly a year is finally upon us. Kinda. Eskom (now that’s a name we haven’t for a long time) just issued the first load shedding warning since March 2024. Let’s first…

The one thing we’ll say in Netflix’s favour is that it doesn’t give up. Despite overwhelming evidence that it’s in over its head, and undeserving of a second chance, it’ll keep trudging along until it eventually stumbles upon the right answer. Netflix, the streamer, will host Tudum the Event on the platform directly on 31 May 2025. Ta-da! If you weren’t aware, Tudum is Netflix’s “premier global fan event”, named, perhaps unsurprisingly, for the ‘TUDUM’ sound effect that’s become synonymous with the streamer. And our favourite shows being cancelled, now that we think about it. It’s a place where Netflix…

Yesterday, Sony announced the new PS5 and PS4 games joining the PS Plus subscription as part of the ‘Essential’ and up tier – High on Life, Payday 3 (yikes), and Pac-Man World Re-Pac. These are the titles that subscribers can keep forever (as long as users claim the games in a timely fashion and keep their subscriptions active). But, in the PS5’s now five-year-long lifespan, there’s always been a nagging worry at the back of our minds. When would Sony finally stop catering to the PS4 fanbase, and focus solely on PS5 titles? This model has potentially harmed an all-PS5 line-up of games…

Ah, Asteroids. One of the most iconic games of the shady underbelly of arcades is turning 46. So of course, Atari has a 45th birthday celebration lined up for 2025. Don’t ask us why Atari left the party this late – but it appears as though it was worth the wait. Atari, in collaboration with Nubeo, has announced a set of Asteroids-themed-watches that look, well there’s no other word for it: awesome. Watch this (from afar) We should hope so, considering the R9,300 ($500) price. But it’s more than just a pretty Asteroids face (that we absolutely wouldn’t mind sacrificing a…

Honor really knows its ABCs, huh? At an event hosted in Kramerville on 29 January 2025, Honor South Africa proved as much when it debuted its latest mid-range device, the Honor X9c, a successor to the Chinese company’s previous mid-range efforts – the X9a and X9b. Honor took its mid-range game to a whole new level with the X9b, boasting a near-indestructible screen (and similar body) that served to bolster the phone’s already decent specs. The X9c has kicked it up a notch in 2025, delivering even better specs and a shell that’s supposedly just as impervious to damage as…