Yesterday, Vodacom announced that it’d inked a partnership with Microsoft that’ll let its customers buy Xbox and Windows Store apps and games using their Vodacom airtime. While it seems a strange way of effecting payment, it’s actually a good way for parents – as one example – to limit kids’ spending on gaming because airtime can be duly allotted. It also enables those without credit or online-purchase enabled debit cards to buy games and software – and also subscriptions, like Game Pass.

Yesterday saw the release of the long-anticipated Halo: Reach (as part of the Master Chief Collection) on PC. Though Halo is traditionally a console-bound FPS, PC gamers have been looking forward to Master Chief Petty Officer John-117’s return to PC. So much so, that the game has shot right to the top of Steam’s charts since its release yesterday.

With the Vex Invasion now defeated, Osiris calls upon you to face a new threat. Stop a council of Cabal Psion Flayers from manipulating time and undoing our victory against the Red Legion.

The Fourth season of the fourth year of Rainbow Six Siege – Shifting Tides - has been live on the Test Servers for a while, and one of the most exciting things about the test is that it included testing the stability of South African servers. We’ve given it a go, and the experience is pretty damned great (except when people are hurling abuse at you, because boy are people toxic). Now Shifting Tides is live proper on all platforms – but that doesn’t mean that the local servers are. From what we know, they’re still being tested, so haven’t gone live alongside the new content. That said, the plan is to roll the servers out once testing is all done and Ubisoft can ensure a smooth local experience.

While it was always obvious that Jill Valentine’s escape from the doomed Raccoon City would be the next logical choice, there was scant proof to go around to prove that this would be the next remake caper. Until today that is, when Resident Evil 3 Remake cover art popped up on the PlayStation Network.

In an attempt to quell the toxicity of online gaming spaces, the Vatican is injecting some holiness into everyone’s favourite blocky build-a-thon Nowadays, it’s awfully difficult to find an online community that isn’t overrun with heathens and naysayers. There’s just so much cussing and use of naughty sex words to describe the simple action of messing up! How is one …

There’s no other game like Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, even if it does lose the plot when it celebrates the art of stories and the power that they possess.

I don’t really like gaming keyboards. While I’ll happily expound the clear benefits of mechanical keys over those horrible rubber dome monstrosities, I’m generally not fond of the large, hulking gaming keyboards that look like they’re made from appropriated Martian technology and sparkle like they’re powered by toxic unicorn vomit. That sort of ethos is changing though, as hardware manufacturers …