At the end of 2019, we teamed up with Acer South Africa to bring you a next-level gaming experience. This includes visiting the Acer office in Johannesburg and playing on the Predator Thronos gaming setup which is powered by the Acer Predator Orion 9000 gaming PC with two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card.
We can all agree that Xbox’s name choices for consoled have been rather erratic in the past. It is kind of expected coming from a company that followed Windows 3 with Windows 95 and Windows Vista with Windows 7. Microsoft is a place where names for products are randomly pulled out of a hat, it seems.
Are you keen on locally-produced video games and art? Based on the response to our Boet Fighter review at least a few of you are. If you’re in the Cape Town region in early December (and you really should be — we hear it’s lovely this time of year), it’d be a plan to check out Playtopia MGA.
Do violent video games create violent gamers? It’s a topic of discussion that continues to rear its head despite there being no solid evidence linking the two. It was once again brought back to the fore in August…
It’s not that often that we get to play a South African-made video game. There are a few notable ones out there — Semblance, Stasis, Broforce and, for the truly old-school, Toxic Bunny. Boet Fighter’s attempting to muscle its way onto this list and… honestly, it can have the slot
This week in Light Start — we’re ready for hidden likes on Instagram (globally), Ford launched a macho EV, Google’s Stadia’s lacking in oomph and Google launches RCS messaging in the US.
If you’ve been holding off on investing in an Xbox’s Game Pass, now’s the time to sub. Because Microsoft is sweetening the deal for new subscribers, while pushing out some brilliant game additions for the foreseeable future.
In a recent hands-on look at Diablo IV, the lead designer Joe Shely confirmed that the game will feature cosmetic microtransactions.
Ninty’s gone and made its brilliant handheld even more portable, and cheaper, with the Nintendo Switch Lite. It also comes in the best bubblegum-inspired colours.
The same can be said about Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, if you swap ‘Mediterranean’ for ‘Technology Island’, only the additional systems render this one kinda… lame. As lame as a spec ops operative with a leg wound limping for the treeline while firing a handgun over his shoulder.