US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge ‘as much as 30%’ more for its Arizona chips pans out

The chip industry—as with many others, I’m sure—is, at least to onlookers like myself, in very uncertain waters of late, thanks to the United States’ upsy-downy-round-and-roundy ‘will he, won’t he?’ tariff position. The goal is ostensibly to have production shimmy on over to the US, but we’re now hearing rumour that even some chip production…

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds has fixed the classic survival crafting trope of endlessly chopping down trees thanks to an excellent spell system that does the hard work for you

When I was first shown RuneScape: Dragonwilds—Jagex’s answer to survival crafting games like Valheim and Enshrouded with its own Gielinor flavour—the star pupil of the whole presentation were most certainly the spells. They’re shortcuts to make some of the more tedious parts of survival crafting a lot more palatable: Spectral axes that can chop down…

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Mario Kart World Brings Back Another Fan-Favourite Mode

Let battle commence! The Mario Kart World Direct has provided confirmation that the fan-favourite Battle Mode will be making its grand return in the new Switch 2 title. For the uninitiated, Battle Mode contains two sub-modes in which players compete against one another within contained environments. The first, Balloon Battle, has you launch items toward…

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