Author: Trent Meikle

After much umming and ahhing from industry leakers throughout 2024, it looks like the Switch 2 is finally gearing up for its first ‘proper’ announcement (if you don’t count this one) soon, possibly targeting a March 2025 release date. That’s been the general idea ever since it was reported that Nintendo would miss its originally intended on-shelf date of the back half of 2024. Gimme. Now. Please? No-one seems to have noticed the Nintendo assembler- Hosiden is spending ¥2bn on production equipment and ¥1bn on automation in FY3/25 for its major customer in amusement (Nintendo). I still expect Sept news and…

Tomorrow is the big day. Astro Bot, PlayStation’s way-too-late reply to Super Mario Odyssey (and arguably Super Mario 64), will finally hit the PS5. Believe us when we say we weren’t all that excited about the prospect of digging into a PlayStation-led 3D platformer. That’s a job for Nintendo, we thought. Then we got our hands on the PS5 exclusive that is Astro Bot and had our minds changed… the easy way. Astro Bot is a stroke of genius, born from the minds of the folks over at Team Asobi. You’ll know them for their work on Astro’s Playroom – that game preloaded on the…

Apple loyalists – the ones who queue up once a year to get their hands on the latest iPhone – are likely beginning to get a little jittery. We don’t blame them. How are they expected to survive with only an A17, or worse, A16 Bionic chipset this far into 2024? Fortunately, they won’t have to wait much longer. Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ event hits the small screen on Monday, 9 September at 19h00 SAST, where the iPhone 16 is expected to debut. Perhaps “expected” is a strong word. It’s an open secret that Apple likes to reserve the unveiling of new iPhones…

The writing was on the wall for Sony’s generic Overwatch rip-off, Concord, ever since it was revealed that the game had only managed to garner an all-time peak of – get this – 697 players on Steam at launch. Which, if you weren’t aware, was less than two weeks back. But even Stuff’s pessimistic souls couldn’t quite believe the news that Sony was shutting the entire project down, delisting it off storefronts and offering players full refunds. Long live… Deadlock? This isn’t the word of some leaker, either. Concord’s very own game director (they had a game director?), Ryan Ellis, confirmed…

Copilot+ PCs are all the rage… somewhere. We don’t have any stats to back that up, but there has to be some logical reason companies are pumping these things out, right? Lenovo, whose Copilot+ PC ambitions stretch to just two laptops, is reportedly looking to grow its portfolio with cheaper AI tech than all the rest. What a novel idea. But there’s no patting Lenovo on the back just yet. We said that Lenovo’s potential hardware may end up being cheaper than the rest – but not necessarily cheap. If the leaks (via The Verge) coming from the ever-useful Evan…

DStv has done the unthinkable. Rather than inform its customers of an impending price hike, the Multichoice-owned broadcaster has announced a return to 2014 prices, knocking down its price to R700/m… on its DStv Stream Premium contract. Still, it’s something. Even if the deal relies on a stable internet connection. Your chance to get on DStv There’s a catch because there’s always a catch, especially when DStv is involved. Like that gym contract you’ve yet to break in, the deal requires customers to lock in for an entire year to unlock the R700/m price tag for all the channels. Otherwise,…

You’ve felt it. And so have we. Food prices (along with everything else) continue to shoot up, with no real end to the tyranny in sight. In a bid to combat the struggling market and offer its customers a leg-up, FNB has teamed up with Pick n Pay, allowing customers to pick up a loaf of bread for only 99c each – up to four times per month. “We are delighted to be part of the 99c bread initiative as Pick n Pay’s ethos and values align with FNB in serving customers through initiatives which provide some relief during these…

Are the folks down at Vivo’s marketing department doing alright? The Chinese smartphone maker has struck while the iron is hot, releasing yet another mid-ranger in its Y Series of devices, once again sliding under the radar thanks to its sub-R10,000 price point. The strategy seemed to work wonders last time around. Our only concern is that its latest offering – the Vivo Y28 – doesn’t have the same ring to it as, say, the Vivo Y100, which garnered all the attention when it launched just two months ago. Perhaps the naming convention is working exactly as intended, considering the Y28’s exceptionally…

It’s official, folks. South Africa’s petrol and diesel prices will see yet another price drop come the morning of Wednesday, 4 September, marking the fifth such fuel price drop in 2024. The news comes after Stuff spent the month of August following the Central Energy Fund’s (CEF) promising predictions, which foresaw relief for both petrol and diesel drivers and even those buyers of illuminating paraffin across South Africa. Fortunately, Stuff can confirm that the Department’s official adjustments are an even prettier sight than the one the CEF predicted just a few short days ago. Yup, diesel drivers will be paying up to…

It seems like remakes of The Office are all higher-ups really know how to do nowadays. The Office so many of you are familiar with is, itself, a remake of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s iconic collection of deadpan humour that is now an entire genre in and of itself. But we’re not mad that Showmax is getting in on the remake fun with its take on the series, which it announced earlier today. The series has yet to be named, though it would be a crime for it to not be titled ‘Die Kantoor’. Dis wat sy gesê het Whatever it ends…