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Hardcore ASTRO gaming headsets now available in South Africa

The ASTRO range of headsets and accessories are now available in South Africa. Local video games distributor, Megarom Interactive, has picked up the licence…

Erroneous reporting leads to PlayStation 4’s implication in Paris attacks

This week, after the Paris attacks on 13 November, reports suggested that the attackers used the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Network communication backend…

BlackBerry finally releases Priv – its first Android phone

BlackBerry has finally gone over to the dark side. In a bid to find some relevance in our smartphone world dominated by iOS, Android…

Activision Blizzard’s purchase of King could be the acquisition of the year

Candy Crush Saga (CCS), yes that game, is probably one of the most well known titles in modern pop culture. It’s the Super Mario…

New Apple TV coming to South Africa early November

After the iPhone 6S, the iPad mini 4 and the Apple Watch have arrived in the country, Core Group, Apple’s major local importer, has…

Nintendo announces its first mobile game coming in 2016

We knew that Nintendo was heading for the mobile gaming sphere, but we didn’t quite know when or how it would do this. Finally,…

Samsung’s trying to remedy Snapdragon 820 heat woes, report suggests

Poor Qualcomm. It tried its best to disguise how awful its HTC One M9 chip was, the Snapdragon 810, but it seems that its…

‘It’s time’ as Google launches Android Wear, Moto 360 and LG G Watch revealed

“It’s time,” says Motorola cheekily. The company’s first smartwatch, the Moto 360, has been announced and is one of the first wearables, together with…

Oppo Find 7 has qHD display, takes insane 50MP shots

Phones are taking a turn for the insane. Just look at Oppo’s new Find 7, which was launched today in Beijing. It’s one of…

Xbox One finally coming to SA and 25 other markets in September

Fashionably late or worth the wait? The console hailed as becoming Microsoft’s most successful to date has just been confirmed for 26 markets across…

Apple’s 8GB iPhone 5c official, is significantly cheaper

Poor sales of the iPhone 5c, a re-skinned version of the iPhone 5, (compare for yourself) have seemingly spurred Apple to release a cheaper…

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…

iOS 7.1 makes iPhone 4 faster, fitter, happier

Well, nothing can make hardware happier, but we’ll be happier, and that’s what counts. Is everything old, new again? According to independent tests run…

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….

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…

20W: a cheap-as-chips South African-made, solar-powered Android PC

Two things computers, smartphones and tablets rely on most are power and the internet. That’s expensive. This South African-made Android desktop computer only uses…

Raspberry Pi gains Wolfson Audio Card, sound good?

Here’s something for the eager Raspberry Pi modder. From today, online store Element 14 will sell the Wolfson audio card add-on for the Raspberry…

Polish-made InkPhone rocks two week-long battery life

for those who fell in love with the idea of the YotaPhone, a smartphone and eBook in one, the concept of the InkPhone should…

Fujitsu’s X923 is the all-in-one business PC that’s always turned on

Imagine having a desktop PC you never have to turn off? Of course, many PC’s since the late nineties have had a low-power or…

‘Titanfall’ won’t launch in South Africa: here’s why

Titanfall is without a doubt, the most exciting online shooter of the next-gen consoles. Killzone: Shadowfall was generic nonsense while Call of Duty: Ghosts…

Latest OS X update enables native 4K resolution

Apple’s OS X update 10.9.3 was released to developers last week who have now revealed that it will enable scaling to accommodate 4K monitors…

Roku HDMI Streaming Stick 100% more purple than Google Chromecast

TV set-top boxes are getting shrunk to the size of a packet of gum, and the ability to stream 1080p content from the internet…

iGaming FAQ: Answering the Most Common Questions for South African Players

AI’s $4.8 Trillion Explosion – Will Africa Get a Slice of the Pie?

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enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance marks historic institutional backing

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Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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