Gaming

Megarom, Orena reveal South African Overwatch Ladder competition for PC, PS4

Video game distributor Megarom Interactive, along with gaming brand SteelSeries, and Orena have announced an Overwatch Champions Ladder competition for SA. The competition will…

Extremely Entertaining Expo: how could you forget these historic E3 presentations?

It’s almost time for the world’s largest gaming expo, as E3 2016 gets set to take place next week. It’s been the scene of…

Hack all of San Francisco and fight crime in Watchdogs 2

Developer Ubisoft‘s open-world vigilante hacking video game series is back in the form of WATCH_DOGS 2 (Watchdogs 2 for the sake of style). This…

Xbox Live Gold subscribers get EA Access for free in E3 week

Microsoft has announced that the EA Access subscription service will be available for free to Xbox Live Gold subscribers from 12 June until 22…

Beat the snot out of your favourite DC Comics character in Injustice 2

Sony and Warner Brothers have announced the sequel to 2013’s DC Comics’ Injustice: Gods Among Us brawler. Simply titled Injustice 2 — with no subtitle — little…

Square Enix announces Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 release date, shows off new trailer

The third compilation in the Kingdom Hearts series is finally getting a (rough) release date. Titled Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, the…

Blades of Brim & War Tortoise: this week’s top mobile games

Welcome to Gearburn’s Mobile Game Picks of the Week, a weekly series in which Hadlee takes a look at the latest, most entertaining, or…

Goat Simulator review: crazy, cool, stupid farmyard fun

This is a good game — Tony Hawk with a goat, in essence. Goat Simulator’s cool and stupid, which is a marvel. There are…

‘Hitman: Absolution’ is April’s first Xbox Live Games with Gold title

We love free games here at Gearburn, especially the titles offered by Sony as part of its PS Plus subscriber programme. Sadly, Xbox Live…

PS4 sales hit 7-million thanks to ‘InFamous: Second Son’, outsells Xbox One 7:1

As the PS4’s smash hit InFamous: Second Son continues to dominate the charts, the sales of Sony’s current-gen machine now tops 7-million units, says…

Dark Souls II review: fan service

I read a lot of Dark Souls II reviews just after the game was released, but many of them seemed off the mark. This…

FTL: Advanced Edition, iPad version get new ships, weapons, events and more

FTL:Faster Than Light, the incredibly popular desktop space simulator is finally getting the mobile version it deserves, launching on iPad on April 3. The…

11 of the worst video game movies you’ll ever see

There have been a plethora of bad video games, but perhaps even worse, there have been a number of good video games that have…

The Freemium boom and the games defining it

It might sound like a buzz word… scratch that, it really is a buzz word called “Freemium” and over the last year it’s been…

6 online co-op games we can’t stop playing

It’s never as good going at it alone. Console and PC games practically demand to always be connected, and the games have followed suit….

‘Dark Souls II’ help: questions, answered

Dark Souls II is a beautiful game. It’s already proven itself to be a slicker, more accessible sequel, but one that’s no less difficult…

SimCity finally playable offline from today for PC and Mac

After a few promises and false starts, SimCity players can from today, finally enjoy a game of city-building offline. An update to SimCity allows…

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft review: digital opium for the masses

Blizzard’s free-to-play collectible online card game has recently snuck out of beta. The final product of an already popular game is in the wild,…

It’s ‘final testing’ time for Sim City’s fabled offline mode

“Almost there Mayors” tweeted Sim City, signifying that yes, the time for offline city building is nigh. Update 10 is in final testing. Almost…

Xbox One has stellar February sales, still narrowly beaten by PS4

Slowly, the Xbox One begins to creep up to the sales of Sony’s PS4, which has beaten Microsoft’s console in sales month after month….

5 player vs player games that are still worth playing

In a world increasingly connected by the internet, it might sound redundant to point out the popularity of online gaming. After all, few games…

Analogue Nt is the hot as hell, aluminium NES made with love

The best NES emulator isn’t Jnes, VirtualNES or Nestopia. No sir, it’s precision fabricated from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminium and it’s…

Xbox gamer Stallion83 first to get 1-million Achievement Points

Some of us try in vain to get 10 000 gamer points on Xbox Live. Imagine getting a cool million? One man has done…

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

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