Hyte lowers prices for PC cases in the US after hiking them in response to Trump’s tariffs, but innocent weebs are still paying the price

Many PC hardware manufacturers were hit pretty hard by the announcement of Trump’s sky-high tariffs on goods imported into the US from around the world back in April. Hyte among them. The case company delayed orders and diverted shipments to other regions, with some prices for stocked products increasing for US customers. Well, that’s mostly…

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Monster Hunter Wilds Flamefete event brings back five months-worth of time-gated event quest cosmetics for the next two weeks—including my favorite cursed giant cat head

I feel a little stupid, reader. For the past five months, since Monster Hunter Wilds released, I’ve been keeping a weather eye on its event quests and grabbing up every unique time-gated cosmetic I could, including those from the Festival of Accord: Blossomdance. Altogether, it amounts to a whole heap of really good cosmetics, including…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be ‘totally, totally gone’ thanks to AI, but he still wouldn’t trust ChatGPT with his ‘medical fate’

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has been speaking in Washington this week at the Capital Framework for Large Banks conference, and he’s had some worrying things to say about the interaction between AI and the job market. Speaking to the crowd during a fireside chat with Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision Michelle Bowman, Altman seemed…

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ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft’s ‘hollow’ layoff emails, with some wondering how a ‘carcass of workers’ is ‘supposed to keep shipping award-winning games’

It’s with precious little pleasure that I sit here and try to find a new way to say ‘the games industry has had a rough couple of years’ without cannibalising my own work—if you’ve been following along, you already know the score. Mass layoffs, studio closures, and (most recently) a whopping 9,000 layoffs at Microsoft,…

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