Author: Trent Meikle

It’s not often that Nintendo pulls off a Direct, the company’s live-streamed announcement event, that leaves fans satisfied while simultaneously managing to quell the angry tirade of Twitter users all in one fell swoop. That usually only happens when Twitter is either down, or Nintendo shows off whatever the latest Legend of Zelda title that’s on the horizon. This time, we got both – in the form of a new Tears of the Kingdom trailer and Twitter’s demise right before the show kicked off. As a bonus, we got a ‘surprise’ announcement that the Japanese company is bringing back the…

After taking a break in 2020 (remember that pandemic?*), Mobile World Congress (MWC) has since returned to yearly events – and it’s no different in 2023. From 27 February until 2 March, the world’s largest mobile-focused trade show visits Barcelona again to show off the tech world’s best (and possibly weirdest) mobile innovations. Despite being a mobile-focused show, attending brands don’t always waste limit their unveilings to mobile devices. Often, these devices forge into the territory of ‘strange’ and that’s what we’re looking at today. Better still, we’ll check up on how they’re getting along nowadays. Energizer P18K Pop Credits:…

Pick n Pay and Shoprite, two of South Africa’s largest retailers, have both revealed their monthly spending in order to keep the lights and fridges on in their stores during load shedding. In just six months, Shoprite spent an “additional” R560 million (R93 million per month) on diesel to run the company’s generators. That’s not including Shoprite’s already-high electricity bill which costs the company roughly R2 billion per year. Shoprite isn’t suffering alone. Pick n Pay has said that its monthly spend on generators has reached as high as R60 million per month, to keep things running during trading hours.…

What do you get one you combine two of the internet’s most popular games; Flappy Bird and Wordle? Well, you get Flappy Birdle – the latest in a long line of Wordle spinoffs. It combines the speed of Flappy Bird and the accuracy of Wordle in order to score big points. Unlike Wordle, Flappy Birdle gives you unlimited plays. How else would we lie about how many tries it took us to get the word right? Because we totally beat Flappy Birdle. “Yeah, we beat Flappy Birdle” Flappy Birdle is simple. Or rather, simple to learn. Mastery of Flappy Birdle…

Calling all cricket fans: this Friday marks the first round of the Proteas’ journey through the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. South Africa’s women’s Protea team, and this year’s, are looking to outperform their last showing where the team reached the semi-finals in the 2020 World Cup in Australia. A win would go down nicely. This year’s tournament is the first senior ICC World Cup to be held on South African soil since 2007, and a first for the Women’s team entirely. As the hosts, South Africa will be the first to step onto the pitch against Sri Lanka on…

A slew of new status features have arrived on WhatsApp, after spending quite some time in the Google Play Beta Programme. Plenty of users have already received the update, though it could take a couple of weeks before everyone can access them, according to Meta. Since the introduction of statuses back in 2017, there hasn’t yet been an update as major as this one. WhatsApp is adding a private audience selector, voice statuses, emoji reactions, status rings, and link previews to all devices in the coming weeks. The Private Audience Selector The private audience selector is changing how users select who…

There was once a time – many years ago – when WhatsApp limited the number of pictures, videos, or files people could send to each other in the same message. Then, 2017 rolled around and WhatsApp increased the limit, allowing up to 30 images to be sent all at once. It’s been six years since the last major media update – it’s time to increase that limit again, don’t you think? WhatsApp 100 Meta is working on just that. In addition to being able to send media in its original quality, the limit is being raised yet again. Soon users…

Today is the day. Hogwarts Legacy is finally here. Well, if you pre-ordered the game. If you had the cojones to do so, you’ll be extremely glad to know that the risk paid off. We would know. We got to review the thing. If you, like many, didn’t pre-order Hogwarts Legacy just in case the reviews were… sub-optimal, you’ll be stuck waiting until this Friday to start your journey at Hogwarts. But that’s okay. Friday is only three days away (depending on when you’re reading this). Until then, there are a bunch of other Harry Potter games to hold you…

Last week SoutH Africa was hit by the Department of Energy’s (DoE) latest petrol price increase, which was, fortunately not as bad as in previous months. According to the Central Energy Fund (CEF), March might not be quite so forgiving, with the potential for a R1+ increase in petrol prices and a smaller, still worrying R0.50+ increase for diesel. The CEF’s data — captured on 6 February — isn’t official by any means. It makes its predictions based on the ever-changing US Dollar/Rand exchange rate and the current prices of oil glObally. It’s just that those aren’t looking fantastic at…

It finally happened. We got our letter to Hogwarts. By that, we mean we finally got our Hogwarts Legacy review code. Essentially though, it’s the same thing. Hogwarts Legacy is such a wonderful excursion into the world that was built nearly 25 years ago that it almost feels as if we were actually invited to attend Hogwarts and its surroundings (of which there is plenty). It takes the world from the original books and beautifully weaves an entirely new story into it. All while managing to keep Harry Potter’s name out of its mouth. For years, Avalanche Studios, makers of Just…