It starts with the nick of a razor blade, a small pool of blood forming on the surface of the skin. From there, it only gets weirder, my thoughts a whirlpool that drags me down, into a world unlike anything I’ve ever known.

By Michael ‘axtremes’ Harmse South Africa’s very own Bravado Gaming are jetting back to home shores after their prolonged stay in the United States. They’re taking a well-deserved few weeks off during the international player break to see their families and loved ones. More than that, it’s a triumphant homecoming for the boys in blue. They return to South Africa …

Being a hole isn't easy, especially when everything you eat is just making you a bigger, more difficult mess to deal with. This is Donut County, and it's delightfully weird.

The worlds of Final Fantasy VIII and Brave Exvius are about to merge for a glorious union of crossover action on the go.

The Pro G Headset is well-made, quality headset that’s a little too singularly focused. While competitive gamers may appreciate its punchy bass and crisp highs, the mid-range performance is just adequate. Of course, preference for that sort of tuning is entirely subjective. For multiplayer gaming, it’s definitely a good set, but comes up against strong competition in sets like the SteelSeries Arctis 3 and its better microphone, and the better all-rounder in the Kingston HyperX Cloud II or Cloud Alphas.

Yakuza shouldn’t be as popular as it is today, when you compare it to the trends of the industry. It’s a series of games that requires you to spend more time watching its story unfold than actually steering it, it has little to zero DLC after each game ends and the core mechanics between the various sequels barely change, even when they’re given a fresh face-lift with the Kiwami upgrades. And yet, Yakuza does gangbusters in the West.

EA’s last SimCity game was…not very good. It tried to modernise the revered city-builder, but was so limited by its new features and systems that it ended up restricting city size to the point where the game just wasn’t any fun to play. Many still prefer the classic SimCity 2000 for their city building fun, which prompted the release of OpenSC2K. It’s a free, reverse-engineered open-source port of the Maxis original. EA’s had it pulled from the GitHub repository.

While Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII still has more to offer thanks to a more comprehensive Zombies mode and its multiplayer, it’s hard to justify grabbing the game just for the Blackout mode. Said mode will be up for testing in September however, with an open beta that kicks off on PlayStation 4 first after an August multiplayer beta. What does it look like? Something like this, in this blink and you’ll miss it trailer that hypes the incoming beta.