Author: Trent Meikle

You may have already carved out a chunk of your schedule this weekend to pay special attention to the Summer Games Fest (including a lively showing from Xbox) and to treat your brand-new Nintendo Switch 2 right. What you didn’t count on was PlayStation making a late charge with a State of Play this evening, 23hoo local time. We’d be lying if we said we weren’t slightly disappointed this isn’t a proper PlayStation Showcase. But it does beg the question — has State of Play taken over as the de facto Showcase? In honour of the late E3, June is…

Thanks to the National Treasury, South Africa is faced with its first fuel tax hike in three years — with motorists expected to suffer a major 15-16c/l hike on top of the already ludicrous fuel prices at the pumps. Fortunately, thanks to the Rand’s resilience throughout May, motorists will get off easy with cheaper prices in June. The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), which is responsible for adjusting South Africa’s fuel prices every month (typically on the first Wednesday of any given month), has officially published the fuel price adjustments for June. As such, the new fuel prices…

If you’re eagerly awaiting the opportunity to dig into the Nintendo Switch 2 when it launches this Thursday, you’ll want to hear this. While you rip the plastic off all the little bits (and disregard those Joy-Con straps altogether), you might want to resist the urge to peel off that protective layer on the screen, no matter what. Why? Oh, you might just permanently damage your brand-new Nintendo Switch 2. In other words, no biggie. Nintendo’s got this one covered, legally speaking In case our sarcasm sailed over your heads, this is obviously… a biggie. Nintendo of Europe recently dropped…

There’s a new motorcycle fleet on the streets, and they aren’t carrying burgers. They’re carrying SIM cards and routers. MTN, South Africa’s largest and inarguably best mobile network, has just upped the ante once again. As part of a small pilot programme rolling out onto South Africa’s streets, it has acquired a small fleet of motorcycles hell-bent on bringing the internet to you in a timely fashion, assuming, of course, you’re in Johannesburg. Hitting the streets, fast Known as the Shesh@5G Motor Bike SIM delivery service, customers in select areas of Johannesburg can take advantage of the new service, which…

One of WhatsApp’s most sought-after features is finally headed to the Meta-owned messenger, if the new report from WABetaInfo is anything to go by (and it typically is). Usernames are coming to WhatsApp, something users have begged for for years, as a way to hide their phone number when adding new, unknown contacts. The feature was first spotted in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS 25.17.10.70 update (available on the TestFlight app), and confirms that Meta is currently exploring the implementation of such a feature. When it’ll be ready for public consumption is unknown, though WhatsApp’s predictable schedule means a…

June is, without a doubt, one of the busiest months for gamers we’ve seen in a long, long time. Not only is Nintendo stepping back into the arena with the highly anticipated Switch 2 this week, the feat is set to be followed by Geoff Keighley’s love letter to Kojima videogames with the annual Summer Games Fest on Friday, 6 June. On top of that, Microsoft has some games it’d like to tell you about in the form of the Xbox Games Showcase, kicking off on Sunday, 8 June, at which Team Cherry will finally break its long silence and…

Google’s Veo 3 ain’t cheap (but it’s getting there) Remember when we all used to point and laugh at the bumbling efforts of generative AI just a little over two years ago? We’re still occasionally visited by Will Smith demolishing a plate of spaghetti in our dreams. But a lot has changed since then, with generative AI inching closer to being indistinguishable from the real thing. A great example is Google’s Veo 3 model, which delivers movie-level visuals from… nothing. Even more impressive is Veo 3’s ability to generate realistic audio, including dialogue, from nothing. Of course, Google isn’t just…

Elon Musk’s satellite-based broadband company, Starlink, has long sought to circumvent South Africa’s stringent Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) requirements to offer its services to South African residents, to no avail. With the company’s attempts to brute-force its way in being unsuccessful, Starlink has but one option: appeal to the residents of South Africa. Reach for the Starlink Which it has now done. In an email sent out on Friday to South Africans subscribed to updates of the company’s local movements, Starlink formally asked residents to share their support for the change in policy that would allow the company to…

It’s no secret that Xbox really wants in on the handheld gaming hype cultivated by the likes of the Nintendo Switch and, more specifically, Valve’s Steam Deck. The company recently made it clear that it would stoop to using Asus’ custom hardware to get its name out there while it worked in secret on the native handheld. According to Windows Central, Microsoft has reportedly hit the pause button on those particular plans. Xbox isn’t backing down Instead, it’ll double down on the Asus/Xbox partnership in a bid to beat Valve at its own game: gaming handhelds. Judging by the recent…

In preparation for the worldwide launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 next week, Nintendo has taken the overly complicated ‘Switch Online’ app you’d forgotten about and turned it into something useful. It’s now the ‘Nintendo Switch App’ (never change, Nintendo), supports the Switch 2, and adds some pretty handy features to the mix. That’s if you could get it to work, of course. Available today (Android/iOS), we had no issues installing the app on our Android smartphone from the Play Store, but experienced some hassle attempting to link our Nintendo account within the app. This issue doesn’t appear to be…