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Loeb rolls out of Dakar contention: the motorsport roundup

The year is getting off to a sluggish start, and that’s especially true for all those Dakar contenders who were stuck in some pretty…

3 of Motorola’s best mobile phone hits

When Lenovo bought Motorola from Google in 2014, we didn’t quite know what the Chinese technology manufacturer had in store for the once prolific…

Fitbit, Casio and Fossil: it’s raining smartwatches at CES 2016

Smartwatches haven’t quite shown us the money just yet. Sure, they’re walking around with big ideas, but up until 2015’s end, there hasn’t been…

Where are the Japanese Tactical RPGs we grew up with?

There was a time when the majestic Tactical Role-Playing Game (TRPG) roamed the landscape and were abundant in numbers. Battle were fought and positions…

Huawei Mate S review: touch made irrelevant

As far as 2015 flagship releases go, we’ve seen a great many excellent additions. The Samsung Galaxy S6, the LG G4, the iPhone 6S…

World Panel SunStream review: R200 now, free electricity later

In a world bombarded by sunlight every day, it doesn’t make sense that we make so much use of nonrenewable fuels. Sure, it does…

The rise and fall of the 3D Platformer

The platformer genre has been a staple of gaming since the eighties, with famous titles such as Super Mario Bros. becoming big enough to…

‘Layers of Fear’ Early Access preview: trust nothing, fear everything

Enter a world of true madness where nothing is as it seems. A terrifying place where the lines between horror and reality are all…

5 pivotal moments in the development of TV technology

It’s hard to believe how far the television, and TV technology for that matter, has come in a little under a century. As we…

Happy Plugs in-ear review: fashionable, flavourful audio accessory

If you think of headphone brands, the last company that’ll come to mind is probably Happy Plugs. To be fair, I hadn’t heard of…

10 iPhone 6S features to get excited about

Now that we are certain about Apple’s 9 September press event in San Francisco, a lot of speculation is being put to rest about…

Alcatel OneTouch Fire E review: a tepid Firefox debut

I imagine that it must be pretty difficult launching a brand spanking new operating system while the world’s obsessed with iOS, Android and soon…

Huawei P8 review: metallic mastery

Another day, another flagship phone review. They’re getting tiresome now, aren’t they? Especially since all manufacturers seem to be making devices that look a…

Scalebound: everything we know about the Xbox One exclusive so far

Imagine exploring a vast magical wilderness on the back of a flying dragon. Imagine forming a bond with this dragon and charging with it…

Ware of the Week: Microsoft Arrow Launcher beta

In our weekly series, Ware of the Week, we showcase our favourite organised lines of code from the world of mobile and desktop computing….

5 family-friendly LEGO games for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One

I wanted to call this article “next gen LEGO round up”, but to be fair here this is no longer “next-gen”. The problem is…

Proline A933L tablet review: a basement Windows bargain

Tablets are slowly becoming the jack of all trade devices we all thought they would. They’ve murdered netbooks and have made large laptops even…

Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut review: it’s hip to be cubed

Valve’s Portal was the unintentional gem of the Half-Life Orange Box. The title was a sleeper hit and soon everyone — gamers and non-gamers…

AG Ghost review: you can do better for less

Here’s the thing about the AG Ghost: as tempting as it is to review it as a R5000 phone, you just can’t. That’s not…

The Flock: the game with a death-dependent self-destruct button

In recent years there has been a great increase in the number of indie gaming studios and this has resulted in a market saturated…

Samsung Galaxy Note 5: Sammy proves it has no idea what it’s doing anymore

At the turn of the decade, Samsung made a bold move of launching a large screened smartphone just at the world woke with a…

5 upcoming games in 2015 we can’t wait to play

The year 2015 has brought us some phenomenal video games titles so far. We got to parkour our way through the zombie infested street…

LG G4 review: old world charm, new world chic

It’s interesting to note the meteoric rise of some smartphone companies starting life at the very bottom of the market. OnePlus is probably the…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel