gaming

Is Steam Lunar New Year Sale next?

Steam sales have become a fixture among PC gamers, being a great way to beef up the library with heavily discounted wares. The Winter…

Better Late Than Never: Getting Over It, Hello Neighbor and Bomber Crew

It’s ‘Better Late Than Never’ time again, the review series that takes a look at the gaming titles we have unforgivably overlooked in recent…

Q&A: Project Wingman dev on launch window, origins and more

In case you missed our original report, we stumbled upon the Project Wingman demo late last year, being a fantastic take on the Ace…

SA’s own Genital Jousting leaves Steam Early Access [‘semi’ NSFW]

Genital Jousting certainly stands out as one of the strangest games ever made, being a party game that has you playing as a bunch…

World of Warships and JYDGE: 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…

8+ mods that helped make flawed video games better

We live in a time where flawed video games can easily be fixed up with a patch or two (or three or four). But…

Nintendo Labo: a DIY hardware kit for Nintendo Switch [Update]

Nintendo promised to announce some intriguing news late yesterday, and we’ve finally got it in the form of Nintendo Labo. The product category, split…

How does Skyrim perform on Switch?

Gamescom 2017 is in full swing and Bethesda and Nintendo have finally allowed gamers to try out the Nintendo Switch version of The Elder…

Metal Gear Solid 2 HD comes to Android, but…

Metal Gear Solid 2 was one of the most technologically advanced games for its time, pushing the then-new PS2 to hitherto-unseen levels. Between the…

The Xbox One no longer excites me [Opinion]

I’ve written a similar headline before about the Sony Xperia line last year, but Microsoft’s Xbox One is the latest tech product to fall…

Xbox Game Pass comes to South Africa next month, price revealed

When Microsoft announced Xbox Game Pass earlier this year, our first question was “will it be available in South Africa?”. Unfortunately, as Gearburn exclusively…

War Wings and Meshi Quest: this week’s top mobile games

We’re looking at our most noteworthy mobile games again. So let’s get on with the show. We have four notable titles this week, with…

Tacoma review: time is oxygen…

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative-exploration game developed by Fullbright, the same Portland-based indie studio that brought us Gone Home, one of the very titles…

Microsoft-exclusive Crackdown 3 gets shifted to 2018

The Crackdown series is one of the more underrated Xbox franchises around, delivering high-flying open-world antics and a neat visual style. But don’t hold…

New Humble Bundle sets sights on Sony consoles

We’ve already seen Humble Bundles on Sony platforms, now, the pay-what-you-want deal returns to PlayStations with the Humble 2K PlayStation Bundle. The Humble 2K…

You might regret downloading these 7 addictive mobile games

People look for different things when it comes to mobile games – some want adventure, others want strategy and millions want Candy Crush. However…

No Man’s Sky update brings basic multiplayer, much more

No Man’s Sky may have been a major disappointment at launch, given the hype, but you can’t deny that Hello Games has done a…

Q&A: the devs behind intriguing SA indie game Jetstream

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Cape Town’s Electronic and Gaming Expo (EGE) 2017, the third running of the local gaming event….

PS4 firmware 5.0 to bring 1080p/60fps streaming and more

Sony has confirmed that firmware 5.0 is coming for the PS4 and PS4 Pro, but what does the new system update actually do? Fortunately,…

Watch: the moment Valve disappointed its fans with new game

Whenever video game colossus Valve announces a new game, it’s almost guaranteed to be greeted warmly, to say the least. After all, this was…

UFO 50: indie dev stars to release 8-bit collection

A group of indie developers, responsible for smash hits such as Downwell and Spelunky, have joined forces to release UFO 50, a collection of…

F1 2017: what’s new in career mode?

We really enjoyed F1 2016 (review), building on the solid but barebones F1 2015 to deliver one of the better approximations of the motorsport…

Indie spotlight: five intriguing indies games you may have missed

Once upon a time indie games were part of an extremely niche market, but they’ve increasingly expanded their influence and fanbase — creating some…

Lenovo at MWC 2025: AI-Powered Laptops, Sustainable Concepts, and a Glimpse into the Future

Smart Tech: Turning the Tide on South Africa’s Water Crisis

Celebrating Innovation: Redmi Note 14 Post-Launch Event in South Africa

Verto Launches Global Business Award to Fuel African Startup Expansion

GITEX Africa: Shaping the Future of Tech and Positioning Africa as a Global Powerhous

Gozem Secures $30M Series B to Fuel Super App Expansion Across Francophone Africa

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs