Author: Trent Meikle

South Africa hasn’t quite crawled to a stop yet but with the holiday season fast approaching, many are starting to plan ahead. Traversing South Africa’s various toll booths is not a cheap adventure at the best of times, and the new rules that disallow drivers to pay using their bank card’s magstripe are sure to only introduce further complications – even if they are for our safety. As of 1 December 2024, South Africa began the phasing out of magstripe payments at toll booths, reducing the risk of fraud and promoting newer, safer ‘tap-and-go’ solutions. The rollout will not happen…

When Ubisoft wasn’t releasing Assassin’s Creed for the umpteenth time or hitting Ctrl + C on the last Far Cry map, it was busying itself with one the best free arcade first-person shooters of the decade. That’s XDefiant, if you happened to miss the release which only happened in May of this year. It’s not worth visiting the game now since Ubisoft just confirmed that the game will be sunset in 2025. That’s despite the title’s massive launch, which was the fastest of Ubisoft’s to hit five million players, and managed to garner 15 million players now that all has been…

One of the biggest disappointments of the PS5 is a resounding lack of proper themes – something both previous generations offered in spades. Sony fixed the issue somewhat with the addition of the Welcome Hub a few weeks back, but it’s just not the same. Now, on a random Tuesday morning, themes are a thing on the PS5. No fanfare, nothing. Well, aside from PlayStation celebrating its 30th anniversary today. *insert happy PS2 noises here* https://youtu.be/DS9QA1LrZHo Check out Push Square’s video showing off the PSOne, PS2, PS3, PS4, and 30th anniversary themes. Better yet, they’re purely nostalgia-driven, reviving the loading screens and…

As much as we loved spending time with Lenovo’s first entry into the handheld gaming scene with the Legion Go, we can’t pretend that the R16,000 (at the time) starting price was anything to cheer for, and Lenovo knows it. That’s why it’s reportedly plugging away at the Legion Go S – a more affordable offering that could better penetrate the market. Windows Central reckons it’s already laid hands on some bona fide renders. Lenovo Legion ThinkPad? At first glance, everything seems entirely in order, aside from the lack of a trackpad on the device’s right-hand side and a new white…

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has emerged from its slumber to unveil South Africa’s latest official petrol and diesel prices for the last time in 2024 – and it’s not a pretty sight. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to readers who have followed Stuff’s numerous petrol price predictions throughout November. The Central Energy Fund (CEF), a state-owned energy company reporting directly to the DMRE, offers daily predictive snapshots throughout any given month. These snapshots provide residents with a rough but fairly accurate summation of the coming adjustments, which take place on the first Wednesday of each…

Crusty old iPhone 5s still clinging to life, begging for the sweet relief of death, might get their wish come 2025. According to the folks at WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is dropping support for several older iPhone models to better focus on newer software and the iPhone 5s tops the list. If the lack of WhatsApp is a true deal-breaker, it’s time to go out and buy something new. As long as your upgrade doesn’t mention the words ‘iPhone 6’ or iPhone 6 Plus’* anywhere near them, you should be fine. Those will join the iPhone 5s at the graveyard once Meta implements…

Picking up a Garmin wearable is no small feat. Not just because each is designed to tackle vastly different sports and exercises, but because their prices can reach as high as R30,000+ if you like to keep on top of things. So the news that a specific bug has plagued users for months now, crashing their wearables at the most inopportune moments can’t be easy to hear. It won’t make it any easier once we tell you the bug has even spread to the Fenix 8. Time to play the waiting game And no, Garmin has not yet put out…

So, you’re looking to run Baldur’s Gate 3, Spider-Man 2, CoD: MW3, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on one PS5? Um, ackshually, no you’re not. Unless those are your only games, not even accounting for all the footage tucked away in your media gallery. Give it a couple of years, and gamers will be forced to pick up some third-party storage solution to make up for the abysmal performance of the custom 825GB SSD in the PS5. We recently had the opportunity to whack in Western Digital’s officially licensed SN850P NVMe SSD (1TB) (though WD also sells 2,4, and 8TB…

It’s about time somebody put artificial intelligence (AI) to good use. For once, Google has commandeered everyone’s favourite buzzword for something fun: chess. This isn’t just a regular game across the 64 squares (well, it is); this is GenChess. The rules haven’t changed (Chess 2, when?) – but the pieces sure have. Rather than sticking with the tried-and-true pieces that have dominated the game for centuries, GenChess concocts entirely new pieces for every game. You’ll help it along by providing a short description of the white piece’s theme (classic or creative) and Google, or more specifically, the Imagen 3 AI model,…

Do you have any plans for this Friday, 29 November at midnight? Now you do. FNB is diving headfirst into the Black Friday spirit, announcing a slew of deals designed to help its customers stretch their salaries as far as possible. One of those is a PS5 Slim, only going for the low price of R6,700 – some strings attached. Those join some other superb deals—like a Samsung 65-inch QLED TV, again, for only R6,700. The catch? FNB Connect is only selling off 186 of each product in this category to celebrate the bank’s 186th birthday, meaning it’s fastest-finger first…