Update: The Rand Show and by extension RUSH has been postponed to a later date, so we’ll run this competition once again when a more concrete and safer date has been announced. It’s carnival time! And nothing spells out a festive feeling of excitement and fun better than the annual Jozi highlight that is the Rand Show. This year’s event …

…Still not you! HA! I never get tired of that joke or being able to deliver disappointment so early in the week. A couple of weeks back we got the chance to give away one of the superb Cable Guy Claptrap figures courtesy of the fine folks over at GameFinity and Koodoo. As per Highlander rules, there could be only one winner and that lucky chap is…

Sonic the Hedgehog is racing into local theatres this coming weekend, and to celebrate we have three movie merchandise hampers to give away!

This right here, is the Borderlands 3 Claptrap phone and controller holder. In the box, you get a fine replica of the motor-mouthed mascot of the Gearbox franchise, lovingly recreated in resin and sporting a true to character finish. And more!

You don’t really expect external storage to be fast. Portable storage is there for its convenience, but often they have such slow transfer speeds that using them for anything beyond the transfer of a few smaller files is a bit of a drag. Largely because of their very nature, they have to use an interface that’s not especially fast. The X8 from Crucial fixes that dilemma, provided you have the right hardware.

It’s pretty simple. Adding an SSD to your desktop or laptop is the simplest and most effective way to breathe life into an older machine, or dramatically speed up even a newer. Because they don’t rely on platters and all of that physical movement, solid-state drives are unfathomably faster than regular old hard drives. And, when they’re NVMe drives, they’re …

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Good news, because we’ve got plenty of Birds of Prey tickets to give away for both Joburg and Cape Town fans thanks to our fine friends over at Empire Entertainment!

Thanks to the fine folks at Crucial, we’ve got one of their 500GB P1 NVMe M.2 SSD’s to give away. It’s worth about R1400, and it'll give your PC a massive boost.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Rainbow Six Siege’s fourth season of its incredibly successful four years in the business launched yesterday. Called Shifting Tides, it’s been live on the Test Servers for a while (even giving us a glimpse of the local servers in their testing phase). Now Shifting Tides is live proper on all platforms. Shifting Tides makes some …

For the last three weeks, we’ve been asking you to guess which high profile film starring some of the best actors in Hollywood and centering around a murder mystery, was due for an imminent release. Because we’re all idiots here at Critical Hit who can barely tie our own shoelaces without needing a periodic reminder to breathe in and out, we had no idea what the movie was!