Get ready for the Rage 2025 Take-over at Fourways Mall, where Hisense and RGB Gaming are turning the whole place into an amazing tech playground from December 5-7, 2025! Imagine walking under a giant, glowing LED tunnel that reacts to intense video games. You can step into a special theatre to see Hisense’s newest, super-sharp TVs and play exciting games, even trying out unreleased titles like Monster Hunter Wilds. It’s a massive, interactive experience designed to show off cutting-edge gaming and display technology, making you feel the speed of every click and shot.
What is the Rage 2025 Take-over event at Fourways Mall?
The Rage 2025 Take-over is an event from December 5-7, 2025, where Hisense and RGB Gaming transform Fourways Mall into Africa’s largest living benchmark lab. It features an immersive 30-meter LED tunnel, a pop-up theatre showcasing Hisense’s latest display technology like the 116UX TV, and interactive gaming experiences, turning the mall into an esports arena.
5 – 7 December 2025
The Atrium Becomes a 30 m Peripheral
Walk under the glass roof of Fourways Mall after 09:00 on 5 December and you will step inside the screen itself. Overnight, RGB Gaming bolted 768 programmable LED tiles to the rafters, forming a 30-metre reactive tunnel that clones the colour data streaming from the 116-inch UX flagship on the ground. The rig is not eye-candy; it is an extension of the display pipeline, updated at the same 4K 144 Hz refresh so the ceiling blooms with every muzzle-flash and health-pack pickup. ICASA has signed off on the continent’s first retail deployment of Philips-derivative “halo-sync” hardware, and the exemption certificate is taped where the escalator meets the mezzanine so sceptical engineers can inspect the stamp.
The tunnel doubles as a crowd sponge. Shoppers who have never heard of input lag suddenly feel it through their peripheral vision, and they drift toward the black-box theatre that Hisense erected between the Lego store and the climbing wall. By lunch the LED bridge is thumping in time with the Apex Legends kill-feed, turning casual foot traffic into an accidental Esports audience.
Security did the maths: the atrium handles 4,000 people an hour at peak, and the light show slows them just long enough to prevent bottlenecks at the upper food court. Mall management loves the data; they are already asking RGB Gaming to quote a permanent installation for Valentine’s Week.
Inside the Pop-up Theatre: Concentric Rings of Silicon
Hisense refused a traditional stand. Instead, the company hired a broadcast-set contractor and built a 270-square-metre black box wrapped in recycled stage molton. Three concentric rings guide visitors inward like a camera iris.
Ring One is a hexagon of 65-inch U8K panels, each tethered to a 120 Hz console and a rotary switch salvaged from a 1950s Johannesburg mine lift. Kids spin the knob to hot-swap between Forza, Mortal Kombat 1 and Helldivers 2 while the TVs handshake on the fly, proving 48-Gbps HDMI 2.1 is finally plug-and-play.
Ring Two hides two PX3-Pro laser projectors edge-blended into a 21:9, 240 Hz Game Pass wall. The screen is micro-perforated so the exhaust fans breathe through it, keeping the booth under 26 °C without adding mall HVAC load.
Ring Three is the gravity well: the 116UX sits on a motorised turntable that completes a half rotation every 23 minutes, giving every selfie queue a turn with the least glare. Museum-grade polycarbonate shields the glass; two cosplayers – Kitana and Sub-Zero – stand close enough to intercept an over-enthusiastic backpack.
The 116UX Engineering Deep Dive
Numbers first: 40,960 Mini-LEDs arranged in a 640 × 640 matrix, refreshed at 3.6 kHz so that each zone can dim or boost before a CS2 AWP scope finishes its 1-ms flick. Backing that is MediaTek’s Pentonic 7000, good for 48 Gbps even at 10-bit 4:4:4, but the secret sauce is a 0.8-W neural net trained on 18,000 hours of tournament footage. The model predicts 180° flick shots and pre-charges the LEDs so halo width stays below 1.2 mm on the live panel.
Thermally, 5,000 nits in a shopping centre is irresponsible unless you plan for it. Hisense embedded four 40-mm vapour chambers that dump heat into a 22-mm copper rail under the floor. A 5 kW chiller truck idles in the loading bay, circulating 12 °C propylene glycol at six litres per minute. Infrared projectors show the hottest Mini-LED junction peaking at 38 °C, seven degrees below the quantum-dot efficiency cliff.
Power discipline is equally brutal. Fourways allots 32 A single-phase per 100 m²; Hisense peaks at 30 A thanks to two 3 kWh Bluetti LiFePO₄ cabinets that shave demand spikes. They recharge overnight on 65c/kWh tariffs, so the mall saves money and the bubble-tea next door never trips.
From Mouse-click to Photon: a 6.2 ms Receipt
Marketing loves the phrase “instant response,” but engineers prefer histograms. A PicoScope 5444D is soldered to the left button of a Razer Viper 8 kHz; the probe chases the signal through Xbox Series X, HDMI 2.1, the 116UX T-CON, Mini-LED driver and finally a 1 cm² photodiode pressed against the glass. Median latency: 6.2 ms at 120 Hz with Dolby Vision Gaming enabled – 1.4 ms quicker than the 2024 LG C4 reference RGB Gaming keeps in Cape Town.
Every visitor receives a thermal-printed chit showing their run’s quartiles. The record during the October dress rehearsal was 5.9 ms, achieved by setting local dimming to “Low” and colour temp to 6,500 K. That slip of paper becomes bragging rights on Discord, and Hisense gains an army of adolescent benchmark evangelists.
Console makers are paying attention. Xbox quietly added a hidden telemetry pane to Forza Motorsport: hold LB + D-pad down and a live bar graph mirrors the PicoScope numbers – console-side acknowledgement that display lag is now a spec war worth fighting.
Games You Can Actually Touch
Capcom freighted a gold-master Monster Hunter Wilds build that locks to 4K 120 Hz in 12-bit. The executable is encrypted to the dev-kit; remove the SSD and the file self-wipes, so the only legal way to hunt in 120 fps this year is to stand in Ring Three.
Square Enix counters with a Dawntrail benchmark that flips between 1440p 120 Hz and 4K 60 Hz on the fly, illustrating how the 116UX 48–144 Hz VRR range smooths PS5 clock-drops. A macro overlay prints real-time frame-time dots, turning JRPG fans into accidental statistics majors.
Nintendo fans get rarity value: a Switch 2 debug unit – Africa’s first public sighting – outputs Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 1080p 120 Hz via temporal injection. Parents receive a cheat-sheet explaining why doubling 60 fps still halves input sampling jitter; kids just see rainbow road without the Lakitu stutter.
The R100,000 Apex Shoot-out
RGB Gaming hosts hourly 3v3 Apex brackets on the outer hexagon. Winners pocket R1,000 mall vouchers and a seed for Sunday’s finale played on the 116UX and broadcast to SuperSport ESPN via a 12G-SDI uplink normally reserved for Varsity Cup rugby.
Consoles are flashed with identical 1 TB images: 120 Hz, 1080p, HDR off, so glory belongs to muscle memory, not firmware hacks. First place grabs R50,000; second takes home a 65U8K; third bags a PX3-Pro. By Saturday night the hexagon has become a coliseum, with food-court chairs stacked three rows deep and security handing out earplugs.
Buy It, Calibrate It, Take It Home
Hisense trucked in 600 cartons – 200 for demo, 400 pre-sold – that can be collected on the spot. Expo-only prices start at R9,999 for the 55U8K (R3,000 below November’s Black-Floor tag) and top out at R249,999 for the 116UX (three units only, chiller truck not included).
Purchasers skip the public queue and book a 30-minute calibration session with a THX-certified engineer flown in from Dubai. You leave with a bracelet, a spectro report, and an ICC profile already loaded onto a USB wristband – because nothing kills buyer’s remorse like a Delta-E < 1.0 certificate.
Tear-down in 90 Minutes: the After-Party Audit
When the mall lights dim at 21:00 on Sunday, RGB Gaming has 90 minutes to return the atrium to retail normal. The LED ceiling panels are flight-cased and rolled straight to a warehouse in City Deep ahead of Ultra Fest 2026. The vapour-chamber rails stay bolted to the 116UX for the Cape Town rAge in May.
The polycarbonate dome is unscrewed, flattened, and FedExed to Museum Exhibitions Johannesburg who will laser-cut it into 150 veterinary face shields. Even the Bluetti batteries are cycled into Sun Exchange’s township solar backlog; their first assignment will power a Khayelitsha coding school where learners are already prototyping browser games destined – if the code compiles – to appear on Hisense screens at next year’s show.
By Monday morning the only evidence is a faint rectangular imprint on the atrium tiles and a spike in Fourways Mall’s Instagram geo-tag. Hisense calls it a proof-of-concept; everyone who queued calls it the weekend Africa saw what 6.2 ms really feels like.
What is the Rage 2025 Take-over event?
The Rage 2025 Take-over is an immersive tech event presented by Hisense and RGB Gaming at Fourways Mall from December 5-7, 2025. It transforms the mall into Africa’s largest living benchmark lab, featuring cutting-edge gaming and display technology, interactive experiences, and an esports arena.
What unique attractions will be at the event?
Visitors can experience a 30-meter reactive LED tunnel, which projects game visuals onto the ceiling in real-time, and a pop-up theatre showcasing Hisense’s latest display technology, including the 116UX TV. The theatre will also feature interactive gaming stations with unreleased titles.
What kind of gaming experiences can attendees expect?
The event offers a variety of interactive gaming. In Ring One, visitors can play Forza, Mortal Kombat 1, and Helldivers 2 on Hisense U8K panels. Ring Two features a 21:9, 240 Hz Game Pass wall powered by PX3-Pro laser projectors. Ring Three allows attendees to play unreleased games like Monster Hunter Wilds and experience the Dawntrail benchmark on the flagship 116UX TV, and even try out a Nintendo Switch 2 debug unit.
What is the Hisense 116UX TV and its key features?
The Hisense 116UX is a flagship TV featuring 40,960 Mini-LEDs in a 640×640 matrix, refreshing at 3.6 kHz for precise dimming. It uses MediaTek’s Pentonic 7000 processor and a neural network for advanced halo control. It boasts 5,000 nits brightness, managed by advanced thermal solutions, and delivers an incredibly low latency of 6.2 ms with Dolby Vision Gaming enabled.
Will there be any competitive gaming opportunities?
Yes, RGB Gaming will host hourly 3v3 Apex Legends tournaments on the outer hexagon, with R1,000 mall vouchers for winners and a seed for the Sunday finale. The main finale will be played on the 116UX and broadcast live. First place wins R50,000, second place a 65U8K TV, and third place a PX3-Pro projector.
Can visitors purchase Hisense products at the event?
Absolutely. Hisense will have 400 pre-sold units available for collection, and expo-only prices will be offered on various models, including the 55U8K starting at R9,999 and the 116UX for R249,999 (three units available). Purchasers can also receive a 30-minute calibration session with a THX-certified engineer and a spectro report.
