‘Dwarf Delve’ pits treasure vs risk

A new mining game challenges players to gather valuable resources before collapsing caverns trap them underground.

SA horror film wins Swiss fest top honour

The new Afrikaans horror movie, 'Hen', has become the continent’s first winner of the HR Giger...

Helix explores a mysterious world

'Descent N Ascent’, a new monochrome game, combines exploration and ability-based puzzles in a search of...

Blomkamp’s ‘Nightborne’ sends fallen soldiers
to war

An AI-generated sci-fi horror from Neill Blomkamp’s new studio combines synthetic visuals with the faces of...

‘Soulbound’ takes dungeon combat to Steam

A new pixel-art online game lets players build specialised characters and create homes across a shared...

Zakes Bantwini reworks Johnny Clegg classic

A new Afro-electronic version of ‘The Crossing (Osiyeza)’ forms part of the ‘Scatterlings’ tribute album.

‘Tenet’ weaponises
time on Netflix

The Oscar-winning sci-fi film, now streaming, follows a battle to stop a future threat from destroying...

Once upon a time… in space

A new documentary reveals the pivotal human, emotional and political stories behind humanity’s push into the...

‘Denshattack’ takes trains off the rails

A new game sends customised locomotives into gravity-defying tricks, high-score runs and battles across Japan.

‘Taival’ shapeshifts into Early Access

A new game sends players into a story of exploration and battle with a strange creature...

Time freezes in
‘Ascend to Zero’

The new pixel-art adventure sci-fi game turns seconds into a combat tool as players upgrade and...

Nat Geo displays ‘World’s Biggest Sharks’

This month’s SharkFest DStv programming explores the science behind some of the ocean’s most powerful predators.

‘These Starless Skies’ explores twilight planet

A new sci-fi game follows a dysfunctional team of planetary scientists as they investigate a tidally...

Big 2026 African films stream free

Ten of the biggest awards-season contenders are now available to watch on YouTube, writes KEVIN KRIEDEMANN...

Major expansion debuts for ‘Doom’ prequel

The ‘Revelations’ downloadable content adds new enemies, puzzles, and a Chain Spear weapon to ‘The Dark...

Cats, mystery, shape
new cozy game

‘Cat Mail Co’ let's players deliver parcels as strange packages slowly reveal an island’s secrets.

Netflix releases
‘Unhinged’ horror

Players use their smartphone to guide a first-person story shaped by calls and timed survival choices.

New Nintendo rhythm game debuts on Switch

‘Rhythm Heaven Groove’, releasing today, challenges players to follow the beat across absurd timing games.

X-Men head back to the 90s in season 2

New episodes of ‘X-Men ’97’, out now, scatter the mutants across time as they struggle to...

‘Batman v Superman’ battle comes to Netflix

Zack Snyder’s 2016 movie, now streaming, sees the iconic heroes face off in a darker DC...