Author: Trent Meikle

Remember the Nintendo World Championships? Of course you don’t. It was a videogame competition, born in the 90s, that invited gamers to go fast. Real fast. Specifically, it involved a custom-made NES cartridge containing three games, Tetris, Super Mario Bros, and Rad Racer, all modified for a competition-style event to see who could pull off a win in the fastest time. It’s called speedrunning. Now, Nintendo is resurrecting the NWC. Sorta. Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition isn’t another round of the official tournament, though it’s maintaining that speedrunning ideology that made the show such a hit. Instead, it’s a new Switch title that’ll…

It had to happen eventually. After months of waiting for the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DoE) to reduce South Africa’s petrol prices, June will likely deliver on that dream. That’s according to a new batch of fuel price predictions from the Central Energy Fund (CEF), captured yesterday 7 May, promising a petrol and diesel price reduction in June. It’s worth tamping down those expectations in the meantime. The CEF is a state-owned energy company that reports to the DoE, and keeps an eye on the ever-changing fuel prices to give South Africans a relatively accurate idea of what…

Apple is back at it again, this time at the company’s ‘Let Loose’ event currently streaming over on YouTube ‘live’ from Apple Park. Today, if the teases leading up to the event weren’t obvious enough, is all about the iPad. In fact, Tim Cook called it “the biggest day for the iPad since its introduction.” Big words, and some big shoes to fill. Filling your head with iPad Air First up on the announcement list is the iPad Air, now being sold in two sizes for the very first time. There’s the original 11in model, reimagined to stand up to…

We feel like a proud parent. FlySafair is ten years old. It seems like only yesterday we were watching the budget South African airline take its first steps flights, or banning their first couple for getting intimate right in the seats. Oh, how time flies. FlySafair is celebrating by selling 50,000 seats on selected domestic flights for R10 a pop. Like fine wine, FlySafair gets more expensive with age No, we haven’t forgotten any zeros in there. In fact, it’s 10% more expensive than the airline’s last mega-sale in 2023, which saw tickets flying about for only R9 each. It’s…

Supergiant Games just dropped Hades II without any prior warning. Technically, the roguelike is still in early access — so unless you’re repping the PC Master Race, you’ll have to make do with watching the new trailer until the game is completely ‘ready’ Got a PC? You can pick it up on Steam or the Epic Games Store for R270. Uh, now. So… what are you still doing here? Are you paying attention, Team Cherry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miu_akSity4 If you’re still hanging around here, we’re going to assume a few things about you. One: you’re at work and already counting down the minutes until…

It’s alive, it’s ALIVE! Nintendo just casually ‘announced’ the “successor to the Nintendo Switch” on a random Tuesday morning through an even more random post on X.com. Kinda. The post, apparently coming from Shuntaro Furukawa, the President of Nintendo, confirms that the Japanese conglomerate will unveil the now seven-year-old console’s successor “within the fiscal year.” Switching up on March This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will…

Samsung’s line-up of mid-rangers — the A55 5G and A35 5G —  are now official in South Africa. Uh, more official than they were in March when you could pick up both devices from Vodacom (on contract only), at least. Samsung officially brought the A Series to life in Johannesburg, where the South Korean manufacturers basked in the glory of Cassper Nyovest, Kamo Mphela and Youngsta CPT — the faces of the A Series. I am the Samsung who Knox https://youtu.be/DgSUEmGKXVU If those names mean nothing to you, you’re probably in the right place. We’re more interested in the tech…

Say hello to DEMOCRACY From once being the darling of the gaming world, to instantly becoming one of the most hated, Sony’s Helldivers II spent the weekend speedrunning (and then rectifying) their game’s death, which was heralded as one of 2024’s best. This morning Sony confirmed that it has rescinded its short-lived rules that required players on Steam to hook up a PSN account before they can start whooping bug behinds. All in the name of democracy, of course. For those that haven’t kept up, Helldivers II — a Sony product — graced the Steam store with its presence when it launched earlier this…

When Nothing brought to life its second smartphone — the insipidly-named Nothing Phone (2) — we won’t pretend it didn’t sting just a smidge. While the rest of the world was digging into the Phone 2, we were stuck with the country’s reliably expensive grey importers to bring the devices in. That’s changing soon. The flagship Nothing Phone (2) and mid-range Phone (2a) are launching in South Africa as soon as June of this year. Nothing 2 it https://youtu.be/oieVN1CLOaw We usually hold off on our thoughts on a phone’s design until the device is in hand. When it comes to…

If you’re still reeling from Vivo’s flagship V30’s R20,000 price tag, the Chinese manufacturer’s latest mid-ranger, the Y38, quietly unveiled in Taiwan, might be more your speed. There’s just one problem: Vivo has yet to officially ‘announce’ the smartphone, meaning it hasn’t been formally cleared for arrival in other markets. All we have is a landing page for the Y38 on the company’s Taiwanese website appearing on a random Thursday afternoon with almost no fanfare to accompany it. We wouldn’t worry about it, however. Vivo’s Y-Series has long been a staple of Vivo South Africa’s smartphone bouquet, and we don’t…