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Diablo 4 isn’t due for release until next year, but in their latest quarterly update Blizzard have laid out their plans for post-release updates. Those plans include seasonal content, a paid season pass, and an in-game cosmetics shop. It’s everything you’d expect (or exhaustedly resign yourself to) in a live service game.
I HAD the pleasure of meeting a lovely old chap called David Franklin the other day.
Turns out he’s had a life-long love affair with all things Italian.
His wife Michela is Italian. She could teach Gino D’Acampo a thing or two in the kitchen.
He likes a cappuccino.
He likes a drop of Italian wine.
But the reason I’m featuring him on these pages today is because of his total dedication to Italian cars.
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Not Ferrari.
Not Lamborghini.
Fiat.
Regular workaday Fiats.
David has had FIFTY-FIVE of them since starting with a little red 500 in 1963, and he’s never bought anything else.
Now, just shy of 60 years later, he can still be found in a red 500, though it is now an all-electric one.
The retired machine tools boss insists he’s only ever had one breakdown – and that was when a valve spring went on his 850 Coupe in April 1966.
He’s driven all over Europe on family holidays and won countless off-road production car trials. All in a trusty Fiat.
David said: “They have given us a lot of happiness.”
Sounds like we need a top five . . .
David said: “The most practical and useful was the Multipla. It was the ugliest but you could put six people in it. It was a great car.
“And it handled magnificently because it was very wide.
“The new 500e is another one. That’s great fun. I’m 84 and I love putting my foot down and whoosh, off it goes.
“Sometimes my glasses end up on the back seat. I’m sold on the idea of electric cars now. They just need to get the range a bit higher.
“The 850 Coupe was another good car. And the 850 Saloon. The back shelf was wide enough to put the carry cot on. (They use an 850 Saloon on TV’s First Dates Hotel.)
“The 16-valve Tipo was a good one too. That sounded good and went well. My son had a Uno Turbo.
“The truth is, I’ve enjoyed them all. They have all been fun to drive.
“I’ve already been to ask when there’s a bigger 500e coming out.”
I can answer that for you.
Next year.
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Fiat No56 sold to the Franklins.
Time has never been very kind to QUBE. The first-person puzzler first began life as a university project in the late 00s, but by the time it finally launched commercially in early 2012, it was almost universally written off as nothing but an okay Portal clone. In fairness, there was a lot working against it. Like Portal, it was set in a largely white, sterile testing facility, and while it didn’t involve flinging boxes through portals, each one of its puzzles did revolve around manipulating brightly coloured blocks to progress to the next room. The one major thing it was lacking, and probably a large part of why it never really stacked up to Portal at the time, was a GLaDOS-sized villain. QUBE’s story would come later, in the 2014 Director’s Cut, which added an entire script, voice-acting and a revamped musical score to give Toxic Games’ puzzler a bit more, well, shape.
Even with all those extra flourishes, though, the Director’s Cut was still the same QUBE puzzles from before, leading many to write off the update yet again as a slight improvement on the original, but nothing to get too excited about. Now, in 2022, QUBE is getting a fancy 10th Anniversary Edition that rebuilds both versions of the game from the ground up, while also adding an entirely new sector that doubles the length of the game. And I’m telling you: please don’t write off QUBE for the third time in its life. It deserves better than that.
Unfortunately for iPhone users living in other countries, however, the Apple Card has still yet to launch outside of the United States.
One country where the Apple Card would especially make sense is Canada, where the iPhone has over 50% market share and 76.2 million Visa and Mastercard cards were in circulation as of January 2021, according to the Canadian Bankers Association. Apple Card’s standard 2% cashback on purchases made via Apple Pay and 3% cashback at participating merchants would be competitive with other Canadian credit cards, but it’s likely that the Apple Card’s rewards would vary on a country-by-country basis.
During a trip to Germany in 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple was open to offering its credit card in additional countries, but he noted that banks and regulations vary around the world. Last year, the Apple Card trademark was approved in Canada, but Apple has yet to announce any plans to expand the card internationally.
Launched in partnership with investment bank Goldman Sachs and Mastercard, the Apple Card can be managed completely through the Wallet app on an iPhone or Apple Watch, with key features including color-coded spending summaries, cashback paid out on a daily basis, an interest-free financing option for purchasing new Apple products, and no fees of any kind beyond interest charges on overdue balances. There is also a physical Apple Card available for use at stores that do not accept contactless payments.
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