Month: September 2026

Coal is still a major source of electricity around the world for a pretty basic reason: it delivers power whenever it’s needed, day or night, and many grids still don’t have an easy replacement for that kind of steady, on-demand supply.

Solar, wind, and batteries are growing fast, but coal is still built into power systems that took decades to put in place. A lot of coal plants, especially in Asia, are also fairly young by the standards of the industry. Closing them early can become politically messy and financially painful, especially when electricity demand is still climbing.

Solar generation falls away at night. Wind can swing sharply. Batteries are getting better, but storing electricity for long stretches is still expensive, and deployment still isn’t anywhere near the scale required to support whole national grids. When those gaps open up, coal often ends up covering them.

Coal also sticks around for a few other reasons. Some governments prefer fuel they can produce at home or stockpile, rather than relying on imported gas with prices that can jump around. Utilities compare new clean capacity with coal plants that are already paid for and still running. And in China and India, industry needs dependable electricity quickly, often faster than new transmission lines, storage, and cleaner infrastructure can be built.

If you pay attention to energy policy, the direction is clear enough: renewables, smarter grids, cheaper storage, tighter emissions rules, and more cautious investors are all pushing coal backward. But wealthy economies can usually move faster than emerging ones, which are still trying to balance affordability with reliability.

That uneven transition shows up in power grids all over the world.

Xbox has confirmed on its blog that Mythic Achievements are coming. You’ll earn a Mythic Achievement every time you get all of a video game’s original achievements. Any achievements that are added later, whether through DLC or an update, won’t be necessary, so if you got all of a game’s achievements and then they were updated, your Mythic Achievement will remain despite the changes to it.

An achievement for the most dedicated

Mythic Achievements are retroactive and include games from the Xbox 360 era, so it’s possible you already have one or more of these achievements on your profile. Mythic Achievements have their own section on your profile, with a heroic frame that makes them stand out from the rest. And to make it easier to see how close you are to earning a Mythic Achievement, a new progress bar will now appear in each game’s details, showing how many achievements you still need and how to unlock them.

For now, Mythic Achievements are only available to members of the Xbox Insider program. Since there’s no release date yet for everyone else, you’ll have to join the program if you want to unlock Mythic Achievements now.

Deadlock has been updated with a new major patch, City Never Sleeps, which has introduced a huge amount of new content for the game. Most notably, it has dropped in six new characters all at once: Nurse Harrow, a threatening nurse; Rat King, an anthropomorphic rat who just so happens to be a king; Deadman Danny, a zombie with a jetpack; Baba, a sweet-looking witch; and Violet, an artist.

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A huge patch

On top of that, the game has undergone a major visual overhaul. Each of the lanes now has a much more distinct art style, making them stand out more from each other: the blue one is now like mid-century New York, the green one has a more gothic style, and the yellow one has a more industrial touch. On top of that, both the UI and the HUD have been redesigned so that both the health bar and the status indicators are easier to read in the heat of battle. And if that isn’t enough, a series of new accessibility options, like auto-movement, voice-over for subtitles, or changing the color of enemies, should help you with the game.

In details perhaps less important for the gameplay, but equally interesting, they’ve added 10,000 lines of dialogue to the game, along with a player to listen to them all. Just in case you miss any and want to hear it at any time. But this is only part of what they’ve introduced, as they say in the patch notes.

All this while Deadlock, technically, still hasn’t officially launched. Not even in early access, available by invitation only, it’s still a game in development that you can play, but that still hasn’t officially launched. But with an average player count of 70,000 players, according to Steamdb, it’s among the most played games on the platform. And it’s likely that it will only keep growing when it finally officially launches at some unknown point in the future.

One of the most anticipated anime right now is Sekiro: No Defeat, an adaptation of the acclaimed and much-loved video game from FromSoftware. Released in theaters in Japan on September 4, but with its television premiere planned for January 2027 on Japanese television, there was still no word on when and how it would be released elsewhere. Until now.

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The most anticipated anime

Sekiro: No Defeat will premiere simultaneously worldwide in January 2027 through Crunchyroll. It will have a total of eight episodes and, although this hasn’t been clarified, bearing in mind that the premiere coincides with the broadcast on Japanese television, which will air the episodes weekly, it’s likely that the episodes will be released one at a time and not all at once.

Produced by Qziz.la and directed by Kenichi Kutsuna, the most striking thing about the series so far, besides its spectacular animation that we’ve been able to see in its latest trailers, is that its opening uses a song by the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto: the track Blu, from his album Year Book 2005-2014. Given the hype around the series, it’s sure to get people talking.