Eskom takes a break
After a weekend of Stage 6 energy cuts (and 30-degree warmth to go along with it), Eskom is lastly easing up. It can’t do a lot in regards to the warmth (which must be lessening on Wednesday), however it will possibly do one thing about load shedding, asserting that the nation could be going from Stage 6 to Stage 4. At 05:00 this morning, the nation was decreased to Stage 3.
Unfortunately, it received’t keep that method for lengthy. At 16:00 on Monday, 27 November, Eskom will probably be implementing Stage 4, with Stage 3 returning at 05:00 tomorrow, Tuesday 28 November. That sample will proceed for a lot of the week – till Thursday – or till Eskom says in any other case.
Thanks to Stage 6’s return final week, it allowed Eskom’s “replenishment of the emergency reserves at our pumped storage and Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT) power stations.” Specifically, Eskom reckons that we’ll see 2,500 MW of producing capability “return to service by Tuesday evening.”
“Unplanned outages are currently at 15,368MW of generating capacity, while the capacity out of service for planned maintenance is 5,617MW,” the state-owned energy utility said.
Ubisoft’s in-game advertisements are in all probability only the start
After Far Cry 6, you in all probability didn’t suppose Ubisoft may get a lot worse. Don’t really feel unhealthy. We had been proper there alongside you. Oh, how flawed we had been. Over the weekend, a Redditor within the r/xboxone subreddit famous that that they had obtained an in-game commercial (full-screen!) in the midst of an Assassin’s Creed session. Before opening the map, no much less.
In the phrases of the highest commentor: “Yeah this kind of s**t should be considered unacceptable.” We couldn’t agree extra. This wasn’t an remoted case, both. Tons of players enjoying via Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Odyssey, and Origins on consoles this previous weekend – already an unlucky state of affairs – had been greeted with the identical kind of full-page advertisements, promoting the developer and writer’s Black Friday offers for the newcomer of the sequence; Mirage.
Ubisoft wasted no time responding, with a post on X.com ‘confirming’ that the in-game advert was a “technical error,” – one which has now been mounted. “Our intention was to display a promotion for Assassin’s Creed Mirage as part of the franchise news in the main menu of other Assassin’s Creed games.” Our guess? Ubisoft was “quietly” gauging the web’s response – hoping to slide by unnoticed earlier than rolling one thing like this out throughout your complete library.
Fortunately, if there’s one factor players hate greater than Ubisoft, it’s advertisements.
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Casetify lands itself in some scorching water
Dbrand, the corporate that makes among the finest smartphone instances on the market (and keycaps that’ll draw blood and inform you to “F*** off”) is suing its greatest rival; Casetify – an organization value over $1 billion. It’s claiming that Casetify blatantly ripped off its personal line of Teardown skins, which is a variety of skins which can be made to appear like the internals of the machine they’re caught to.
We’re agency believers in being harmless till confirmed responsible. And, whereas there was no official ruling on this case, Casetify is actually responsible. In a thread on X.com, Dbrand offered a surplus of proof that proved Casetify had “Copy & Pastefied” that particular line of skins – like repeating easter eggs which can be solely vital to Dbrand’s personal… model.
Not lengthy after Dbrand made its claims, Casetify pulled its “own” line of ‘Inside Out’ skins off its web site, noting on X.com that it has “always been a bastion of originality.” Yeah, proper.
Speaking with The Verge, Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz mentioned, “We are under no illusion that dbrand owns the idea of taking apart phones and scanning them. The fact of the matter is that [Casetify] repurposed our existing designs for their products, then went to great lengths to conceal their illegitimate appropriation of our work.”
With the offending line-up taken down and a court docket case within the works, there shouldn’t be way more to the story than just a few snarky posts from the Dbrand X.com admin. But no. Dbrand later brought attention to Casetify swiftly eradicating one other pores and skin line-up in the course of the ensuing chaos – the X-Ray design – one which was reportedly stolen, not from Dbrand, however iFixit.
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Believe it! Naruto goes live-action
After Sony’s Avi Arad and Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto introduced {that a} Legend of Zelda live-action movie was within the works, we didn’t suppose our 12 months may get any worse. We spoke a bit too quickly apparently, as Lionsgate offered an enormous update to a live-action undertaking that’s been caught in improvement hell for years: Naruto lastly has a screenwriter.
That’s all based on Variety’s listing of screenwriters to be looking out for, which claims Tasha Huo has signed onto the undertaking over on the studio. A Naruto live-action movie is seemingly on her hitlist – after she finishes her work on Netflix’s Tomb Raider animation sequence and the upcoming Red Sonja movie to which she is at the moment tied.
There’s almost no different information to be gleaned from the announcement. Cast, launch dates, and particular plot factors are nonetheless underneath wraps – presumably till Tuo manages to truly write them down. We know Avi Arad has been connected to the undertaking since its announcement in 2015 (no surprises there), however nothing else. It doesn’t precisely fill us with pleasure, both.
Mark Wahlberg as Jiraiya, anybody?
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