After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing ‘better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections’

The last few years have seen more videogame developers unionising in an effort to ensure the industry offers sustainable careers for all, and the quality assurance workers of Blizzard have just secured a huge win by ratifying a contract with parent company Microsoft. As reported by Game Developer, QA workers at Blizzard’s Albany and Austin…

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Keychron’s made a concrete keeb: ‘Each keystroke carries industrial rhythm… elevating the experience with marble-like smoothness and auditory-visual harmony’

What noise do you think a concrete keyboard makes? I’m not sure, but I may be about to find out, as Keychron is about to launch a wireless, magnetic-switched model with a “full concrete body”. The Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition looks very much like a regular, off-white coloured keeb, but the company sure has…

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Logitech G522 Lightspeed gaming headset review

There’s a tradeoff that comes with gaming headsets that are labelled ‘lightweight’ or ‘breathable’. In order to get those low weights, they often have to do away with some of the rigidity you might traditionally expect, and this can lead to them feeling flimsy. Logitech’s G522 Lightspeed is almost certainly a lightweight breathable headset, but…

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That dude from The Big Short says crypto experienced a ‘collateral death spiral’ as bitcoin hits a 16-month low, while other analysts predict worse to come

I’m writing about cryptocurrency again, which means bitcoin’s either gone massively up in value, or it’s in the middle of a, err, “significant downturn.” Well whaddaya know, it’s the latter. The world’s most headline-friendly cryptocurrency dropped in value below $70,000 per coin on Thursday for the first time since 2024, with its losses overall this…

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