Winter is coming! Okay, that’s a lie, it’s spring in England and the weather was perfect this Easter. So perfect that I ventured out to explore one of the most famous castle grounds in the country – Arundel Castle. Situated on a hill in West Sussex, Arundel Castle goes back all the way to 1067 and commands your attention when …
This past Easter weekend at ICON, the cream of the crop of South African cosplay competed for the honour of representing the country at the prestigious World Cosplay Summit. Here are the teams who will be waving the Rainbow Nation flag in Japan during 2019 and 2020. Otsukaresama desu!
In 2019, ICON Comic and Games Convention, South Africa’s longest-running geeky lifestyle con jumps forward to Easter weekend. That’s, like, mere days away. Here’s what you can find at this year’s event.
It’s absolutely amazing, how when one new idea takes root and provides a disruption to the status quo, the old guard rushes to squash it as quickly as possible. Take AirBnB for instance. What you’ve got, is the Uber of hotel rooms. People are free to create their own guest lodge, prospective tenants can save cash when they rent a residential room for the night and everyone is happy. Unless you’re a hotel chain of course.
Because I’m a grumpy old bastard, there are few things in life that give me great pleasure. If there’s one thing that never fails to engage my senses, it’s food. All sorts of food. I love high end cuisine, cheap street food and everything in between. I love trying new things in the hope of finding a previously undiscovered culinary delight. Food isn’t just sustenance, it’s one of the things that makes life worth living.
OppiKoppi, one of South Africa’s longest-running, most prolific and dustiest music festivals is giving 2019 a skip. Organiser Matchbox LIVE’s CEO Theresho Selesho confirmed that the festival will be cancelled for this year, postponing the 25th edition of the thing to 2020 instead.
I just can’t fathom it though. Why would any sane, rational grown human eat something that tastes like washing up sugary washing up liquid when there are perfectly respectable things like Eat-Sum-Mores and Tennis biscuits to be had?
Comic Con Cape Town may be the shake up that the Western Cape convention scene needs, but the announced dates for the 2020 event had fans shocked. With a 1-3 May date for Comic Con Cape Town, many fans saw this announcement as a case of organiser ReedPOP muscling in on FanCon’s territory in a bid to crush the local competition.
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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