What was your favourite game in your local arcade? What did you pump token into token after, mastering and etching your three initial name into the eternal scoreboards of? Was it Time Crisis and its superb mixture of light-gun duck and cover action?

Rebirth is a recurrent theme in the hero’s mythological journey – the way they used to be isn’t what we need now. Not anymore. To survive, to conquer the darkness on the horizon, our seminal protagonist must be transformed.

We’ve slowly seen Crystalweb turn from one of the country’s best ISPs, to one of its worst. Whatever the cause of the problems, the net effect is a mass exodus of customers, off to better service - and more importantly, better communication.

This week, DStv operator Multichoice fired shots at Netflix and other streaming services. They blamed the rise of these services for a drop in their paid subscriber numbers. In the last financial year, they’ve lost 100 000 subscribers, and they’re pointing the finger at online streaming.

Comic book and geek events such as the recent FanCon, while though only representing a select demographic of the population and the culture, are an important shift in how we perceive this community and potentially, how it is normalized within the context of South Africa.

Today is Star Wars day! That’s great for the millions and millions of people who revere the franchise. I am, as most of you know, not one of those people. And usually, those people grumble online about people who celebrate today. I’m not going to be one of those people.

Not only is the second Paddington movie now out on DVD, but this year marks the 60th anniversary of the literary character's creation. Here's why the marmalade-loving little bear from Darkest Peru matters more than ever.

A week or two back though, Darryn started a twitter conversation that spilled over into all of the other social channels I’m in. It also eroded what little respect I had for him – and for much of humanity in general. I discovered on that day, that many people eat their cereal with hot milk. What? WHY?

It’s Friday the 13th! For many, it’s an ill omen, a sign of impending misfortune – for other like me, it’s a meaningless day. It’s a Friday, and Friday the 13th is better than Monday the anything. Triskaidekaphobia is a very real thing, and one of the more prevalent superstitions. While I don’t consider myself a superstitious person at all, I’ll still pause when I have to say, walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella indoors. Then I’ll do it anyway as reason overrides the bits of my brain that have these long-ingrained superstitions in them.

Resident Evil feels like an epilogue set dressed by the belongings of the very same people trying to kill us. This effect is better in Resident Evil 7, which features a homestead that feels very much inhabited, a place where almost every room – from the kitchen to the garage to the bedrooms – feels like a place interrupted in the process of merely living. A snapshot of the lives of your enemies before they were so, a home video on ‘Pause’.