Author: Trent Meikle

Fancy yourself as a weeb? Like, a true weeb? If the only words you know are Kon’nichiwa and Nani (?!), you’ve got some serious work to do. Fortunately, this year’s Comic Con Africa will let you put in that work and teach you some real Japanese. It’ll even teach you a bunch of other stuff – if you know where to look. You can immerse yourself in lessons that’ll teach you to draw, roll your own blu-, uh, rice balls and learn to play some of the hottest board and card games around. Get lost in Otaku Town Let’s…

You might consider the metaverse dead and buried, but Meta hasn’t given up hope just yet. In fact, it’s making it a whole lot easier for newcomers to jump right into the metaverse (or, more likely, Batman: Arkham Shadow) with the newly-announced Meta Quest 3S – a cheaper version of the regular Quest 3. So, what’s the catch? You’d be forgiven for thinking Meta would gut the original Quest 3, stick in a less-capable chipset and call it a day because, well, this is Meta we’re talking about. But it hasn’t done anything of the sort. The Quest 3S features “the…

Picking up a half-decent sub-R10,000 smartphone wasn’t always quite so simple. South Africans were once regularly strapped for choice, but the times, they are a-changin’. It seems like every other day we hear about some new budget device vying for our attention. This is one of those days. Realme has officially launched a fresh budget-beater, the C61, hoping to detract from the likes of Apple and Samsung with a R6,000 price tag. “C61 is a smartphone that will be your companion for many years, offering plenty of storage for your media, an unprecedented battery guarantee, and the performance you need…

You best believe we weren’t sticking around ’til midnight to sit through PlayStation’s State of Play just to get a look at Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, but we’re starting to wish we had. Ghost of Yōtei, the long-awaited sequel to Ghost of Tsushima, surprised nearly everybody and steamrollered the rest of the event, most of which didn’t capture our attention long enough to read past their title. To be or bot to be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCl5zKHy7ak Some other reveals, however, did manage to elicit a rush of blood to certain parts of the body. Specifically, we’re talking about Astro Bot’s first (and free) DLC, bringing ten new bots…

Jetour, a Chinese SUV brand that’s been hiding under Chery’s wing for quite some time, has finally emerged in South Africa – and it’s brought with it two (or rather, four) new SUVs for us to gawk at. That is exactly what we did at the company’s launch event on Friday, 20 September, in Sandton. Jetour’s ideology with this launch is to introduce an affordable, yet still-luxurious SUV brand within the country, and it’s certainly trying. We’d have loved to see the company’s Ice Cream EV turn up locally, but in a country still plagued by load shedding reduction, we…

Thirty seconds (and two years) to Mars Humans are going to Mars… in four years. And that’s if, and only if, Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send five uncrewed Starship missions to the Red Planet don’t result in utter catastrophe. We harbour no disbelief that SpaceX can pull off the insane feat – having just sent up a regular citizen on the first commercial spacewalk. Our issue lies in Musk’s continual ambition to assign timelines that simply cannot be met. We’re still on for the Roadster in 2019, right? In a post on X, Musk said “If those all land…

It’s no secret that we aren’t the strongest fans of the original PS5. There’s no doubt that it’s a wonderful console deep down, but you’d only know that if you can look past the console’s hideous hulking figure and shockingly white outer shell. PlayStation, which turns thirty in December, has announced a slew of “nostalgic” PS5 consoles and accessories. Unsurprisingly, they’re gorgeous. PlayStation thankfully gave up on shilling the original PS5, and instead only focused on the more manageable PS5 Slim and the $700 PS5 Pro – which both received a fresh coat of paint. Also joining the line-up are…

It’s Geeked Week over at our streaming overlords, Netflix, which means a couple of things. Firstly the red N gave us a peek at the sorts of shows with a ‘2’ in their name, such as Wednesday S2, The Last Avatar S2 and the one we still can’t quite wrap our heads around – Squid Game S2. But we’re more interested in the slew of high-profile games making their way to Netflix’s 100+ strong library of games. Oh, right. Netflix does games now. But you probably already know that. Netflix isn’t shy about running a mobile games business on the side, and it…

If you’re tired of watching the guy with the best car regularly dominate the Formula 1 track, why not take your mind off the whole debacle by building your favourite car instead? Before, that would have required a fair bit of imagination (and a ton of bricks) but now that Lego and Formula 1 have signed a multi-year deal, Lego’s done the hard bit for you. That’ll be R4,000, please. Brick by brick By the time the 2025 F1 season starts, “the world of Formula 1 will come alive in Lego brick form through an exciting new product range that will feature…

Mark your calendars, because PlayStation is putting on a new State of Play, disappointing all those hoping for a bigger, better and altogether more exciting Showcase. Still, games are games, even if the event is mostly centred around remakes (The Last of Us Part 1 Remake Remastered, when?) and third-party titles that likely won’t give the PS5 Pro much to do. Here’s hoping, though. Put your foolish ambitions to rest We should note that PlayStation has yet to confirm any such event taking place. This news comes from industry insider, Jeff Grubb, who reported earlier this month that PlayStation had…