‘I’ve been waiting over 4 hours in the cold’: Zipcar’s Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps

You might have seen bike share schemes in some cities—you know, the ones you can unlock, ride around, and leave in a different location—but have you seen car share schemes? Maybe I’m too much of a small-town bumpkin, but I certainly hadn’t. Not until I heard about them causing all kinds of kerfuffle last week….

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players think Treyarch is trying to gaslight them into believing that a hit registration error is really just ‘erroneous visual blood effects’

One of the biggest problems that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players have faced recently has been hit registration errors. There have been numerous reports of bullets disappearing as players take clean shots at enemies who just don’t go down. But Treyarch believes it could be a user error. “We’ve identified an issue that…

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As Viktor mains rage over their fave being hit with the Arcane twink ray, Riot quietly tinkers with controversial skin reworks on the League of Legends test server

Viktor is, uh, looking a little different, recently. As displayed in Riot Games’ recent Season 1 update, the developer is keen to start working lore changes made in Arcane, a TV series that’s been way better than it’s had any right to be, into League of Legends itself. It’s an understandable move in terms of…

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Turns out the Arcane creative team always had the go ahead to kill any fan-favourite League of Legends characters it wanted: ‘Riot embraced whatever story we wanted to tell with any of the characters’

I’ve aimed to write this article without spoilers for Arcane season two, but I do make vague reference to some of its events—if you want to be completely unspoiled, don’t read on! As someone with a passable knowledge of League of Legends lore, when I first started watching Arcane, I didn’t think it would have…

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WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin lit a fire under Martin Hywood, a charity worker with a similar condition who’s raised over £300,000 since his diagnosis

I recently had the opportunity to attend a roundtable discussion around The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, hosted by the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK. In case you’re unfamiliar, the documentary centers around WoW player Mats Steen, who died in 2014 due to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a muscle wasting condition with a life expectancy of around 20…

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