Tom Warren

Microsoft has hired former GE executive Carolina Dybeck Happe as its new chief operations officer. It’s a newly created role that fills the lack of a chief operating officer since Kevin Turner departed in 2016. The role will see Happe join Microsoft’s senior leadership team and report directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Happe will help “accelerate our company-wide AI transformation,” according to Nadella. The hiring comes on the same day Microsoft laid off 650 Xbox employees.

Sony has quietly started increasing the price of its DualSense PS5 controllers by $5 at many retailers in the US. Wario64 first spotted the price increases at Best Buy, before noticing the DualSense has gone up at Target, GameStop, and Sony’s own PlayStation store. It comes after recent price increases for the PS5 console in Japan, but there are no signs console prices will increase in the US.