Author: Trent Meikle

In the hopes of finally creating a series that can live up to its videogame counterpart, Amazon has ordered the live-action adaptation of 2018’s God of War. Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins is set to lead the show. Don’t worry, Chris Pratt hasn’t been cast as the titular God of War. Yet. We can never be too careful these days. It’s a-not me! God of War is coming. pic.twitter.com/GzbyutRO2k — Prime Video (@PrimeVideo) December 14, 2022 If you had your hopes up that the series would adapt the original 2005 God of War, sorry to disappoint you. Kratos’ foray…

It appears that if you ask Eskom nicely enough, it’ll turn off load shedding just for you. Well, that’s been the case for the City of Joburg. Following the City’s request earlier this week, Eskom has granted Joburg a three-day break from load shedding to perform some much-needed maintenance. Pretty please? #EskomGauteng #MediaStatement Eskom grants City Power some reprieve from loadshedding pic.twitter.com/o8tDYpu2Ku — Eskom Hld SOC Ltd (@Eskom_SA) December 15, 2022 “Eskom grants City Power some reprieve from load shedding in areas that experienced a significant loss of electricity in large parts of Johannesburg,” Eskom said. “The reprieve follows the…

Day two of the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit spelled good news for Africa yesterday as Visa announced its plans to invest R17 billion ($1 billion) in Africa. The American-led digital payments group will invest the money over a period of five years in a bid to further grow the current growth of digital payments. Do you accept Visa? “Visa has been investing in Africa for several decades to grow a truly local business,” said CEO Alfred Kelly Jr in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to work closely with our partners to advance the financial ecosystem, accelerate digitization and to…

One of Spotify’s best ideas was to show people what they listened to in any given year. Now, everybody does it. Even EskomSePush gave it a go this year, though that’s more depressing than interesting. PlayStation and Nintendo have also joined in, letting you see just how chronically online you were in 2022. Xbox, as usual, is behind the curve. Wrapping Up We’re kicking it off first with the superior console first: Sony’s PlayStation. The Wrap Up is broken down into four different sections: Total play time, Top games, Trophies earned, and PlayStation Plus. Each section provides individual stats such…

The launch of Xiaomi’s flagship 13 series is official – with two models to choose from. Obviously. It’s a crime to release one device and God forbid one of those models isn’t a ‘Pro’. Xiaomi isn’t trying to make like an FTX CEO. As ever, China already has its hands on both devices, but the rest of the world will have to wait ‘til 2023 for a chance to play with these. We’re still awaiting Xiaomi’s official release dates for the global version. We’re also waiting for local pricing, but going off China’s 5,000- and 4,000-yuan prices for the Pro…

If touching grass isn’t your cup of tea, it’s high time you tried out League of Legends. Or anything else Riot Games has made, really. But if you’re the owner of a PC Game Pass subscription, you can now try out its games there. You can also try them out without Game Pass since they’re all free. That’s how Riot catches its victims players. But if you play them through PC Game Pass, you’ll gain access to loads of free in-game content. That’s because Microsoft and Riot Games have teamed up to bring all of Riot’s “biggest PC and mobile…

Twitter Blue is back. Again. The service took a short holiday to give the Twitter higher-ups some time to realise how completely stupid the idea was in the first place. Of course, backtracking after tripling down on the service is out of the question. So, the service has been relaunched – with newly coloured checkmarks – because that worked so well last time. To counter the many counts of impersonation that plagued the service before, the platform will take “a number of other steps to detect and prevent impersonation,” which includes the requirement to have a valid phone number to…

We’re nearly halfway through December (already?), which means the Central Energy Fund (CEF) has begun predictions for the new year’s fuel prices. This is the part where we’d usually tell you to fill up your car before the prices change on the first Wednesday of 2023 (4 January, in this case). But if the CEF’s predictions are accurate, you’re better off filling up after the New Year. That’s because we could be looking at the biggest fuel price drop of the past twelve months. Both petrol and diesel are looking at substantial decreases, with diesel finally getting the better part…

Last week was a rough one for Eskom (and by extension, us). It faced delays to scheduled repairs, battled without diesel and had to put up with some hectic weather. All this was to keep the country from entering the clutches of stage 7, which it successfully managed to pull off against all odds. Or did it? According to economists at the Bureau for Economic Research (BER), the country “technically” already entered stage 7 load shedding. “At a point last week, Eskom was technically ‘shedding’ at stage 7, spread between rolling blackouts and load curtailment on heavy industrial users,” the…

Despite Snapchat’s users continuing to grow year-on-year, it’s dying. Not really – it still makes more money than it makes sense, but from the zeitgeist’s point-0f-view, it’s slowly falling into a pit of obscurity. Apps and users have long known that Snapchat’s gimmick is easily replicable. Meta understands this the most – and it’s deciding to copy a feature that it should have added years ago. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp’s currently baked-in ‘View-Once’ feature is being expanded. For now, it’s limited to photos and videos, but that could apply to text soon, if the betas are to be believed. WhatsApp,…