In an age where people have realised that being able to dictate what they want to watch as opposed to being given scraps by state-owned enterprises, the likes of Showmax and Netflix have risen to fill a streaming need that anyone with a decent online connection can access, whether it be though a phone or a television set. The SABC wants in on that action.

If you’re kind of wishing that Final Fantasy 7 Remake would return to those roots, then good news! The game had a showing over at the Tokyo Games Show last week, and within that demo was an option to play it in “Classic Mode”. It’s pretty much what you think, a turn-based battle style that’ll allow you to navigate through several menus and unleash devastating attacks.

Microsoft joins the $1 trillion club on the back of continued growth over the past year.

A big US firm has just acquired a massive stake in Teraco ,owners of he biggest data centre in Africa, with the hopes of doubling capacity in the next 4-5 years.

National Treasury is looking to introduce a new regulation that would force international services to evaluate what they offer and reclassify themselves as an electronic service. The takeaway here, is that doing so will mean that these companies will have to register for VAT in South Africa, which likely means that consumers will be paying extra at the end of the day for their subscription of choice.

Speaking to LevelUp, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said he didn’t think consoles as you know them are going away any time soon. Instead, they’ll supplement what we already have, giving players choice.

What does the next generation hold in store for gamers? If current trends are to be believed, it’s a future where streaming games plays a large role. Microsoft and Sony are looking to move away from traditional physical media for games, instead offering their best titles as cloud-based products. That’s an idea which can’t be supported without some of the biggest players in the game joining in on that act, and it sounds like EA is keen to head to the cloud as well with whatever console hardware is on the way.

In 2017, Amazon partnered with Teraco to bring AWS Direct Connect, allowing big business direct access to the Amazon backbone network. Now, they’re launching full AWS servers. They’re coming to Cape Town in the first half of 2020.