Legion gaming laptops: stylish outside, savage inside
Lenovo Legion, the company’s dedicated sub-brand for PC gaming, now includes a new family of six gaming PCs – the Lenovo Legion Y730 and Y530 Laptops, T730 and T530 towers and C730 and C530 cubes. Today at Lenovo Tech Life, the Legion Y730 was demonstrated. Catering...
The game has changed
Tens of thousands of gaming, comic and geek culture fans converged on the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg this weekend for Rage 2018. South Africa's biggest annual video gaming, computer, technology and geek culture exhibition, it was also the place to meet Bravado...
New-look rAge kicks off this weekend
As gamers settle into three dedicated LAN areas to play games non-stop for 52 hours at the biggest and slickest LAN in Africa, visitors to rAge 2018 will be welcomed by the sight of a newly designed and larger show floor. The interactive and immersive gaming...
Mastercard partners with world’s largest esport
Mastercard has announced a multi-year partnership with Riot Games to become the first global sponsor for League of Legends esports, the largest esport in the world. Esports - a category of competitive gaming watched by an audience - is growing exponentially in South...
Telkom VS Gaming High School Esports league
Telkom VS Gaming has announced that the VS Gaming HSEL, in partnership with the High School Esports League (HSEL), held its online tournament in the run up to Comic Con Africa. The top three teams from each game are invited to participate in the inaugural tournament...
Acer launches Nitro gadget range
Acer has unveiled a new range of compatible Nitro gaming gadgets. The range includes: * Acer Nitro optical sensor mouse with seven buttons including a burst fire button and 20g acceleration with up to 4,000 dots per inch (DPI), and six-level adjustable DPI. * Acer...
Virtual reality a game-changer for business
It is widely known that virtual reality (VR) is being incorporated into many new applications for gaming and entertainment. But it may surprise you to know that VR is also being utilized to provide all types of new creative solutions for businesses. By Todd Garrigues,...
Businesses aren’t playing around with gamification
It sounds far-fetched, but growing trend among businesses that aim to benefit fully from next-generation technology is to exploit the application of game mechanics and drive up loyalty. In a market that is continuously focused on customer experience and CX, the...
New OMEN lineup from HP
HP has unveiled new OMEN hardware and mobile software innovations for gaming enthusiasts. The OMEN Obelisk, the latest addition to the desktop gaming family, will be one of the first systems to carry the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series of GPUs, while the OMEN Game Stream...
LG commits to local gaming, e-sport talent
LG Electronics has announced its renewed and continued partnership with Energy, an e-sports professional multi-gaming organisation (MGO). Energy competes at the highest level of competitive gaming in South Africa, which LG has been supporting for over the last year....
Bravado Gaming dominates ESEA MDL season 28
E-sports team Bravado Gaming hit a career-high when they dominated the playing field in season 28 of the E-Sports Entertainment Association League's (ESEA) Mountain Dew League (MDL). Competing in the league with the latest innovations from Dell's Alienware gaming...
Ekasi Tech Fest: opportunity for indie developers
The upcoming eKasi Tech Fest will provide indie game developers with the opportunity to present their independently-developed games to the event organisers and ICT sector luminaries to stand a chance to be incubated by Maxum Digital. Located at the Digital Innovation...