Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh

A YouTuber has managed to run Doom on a Krups Cook4Mec smart pressure cooker after dumping and reflashing the firmware on the appliance’s touchscreen control hardware.
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Steam Machine pricing soars past PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X in new retailer listing — 1TB SKU shatters $1,000 barrier

Czech retailer Smarty has listed Valve’s highly anticipated Steam Machine at $950 for the 512GB version and $1,070 for the 1TB model—both before taxes.
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Woot’s ‘reconditioned’ MSI PC deals might be your ticket to an affordable upgrade — For $719, get an RTX 5060-based 14400F PC with 16GB of DDR5 and 1TB of storage

Woot is flogging a range of reconditioned MSI pre-built PCs.

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Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired by the NES and PlayStation 1 — retro shells conceal Ryzen AI 9 465, up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 4TB of SSD storage

Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired on the NES and PlayStation 1

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Lenovo brings handheld-favorite SteamOS to the flagship Legion Go 2 — the AMD Z2 Extreme gets official SteamOS support for the first time

Lenovo is bringing official SteamOS support to AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor for the first time with an updated Legion Go 2.
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Sega co-founder David Rosen passed away on Christmas Day — 95-year-old former U.S. airman helped set up Sega after his service ended in Japan

David Rosen, one of the co-founders of Sega, passed away on Christmas Day.

Forgotten Star Wars Racer Revenge game is key to jailbreaking PlayStation 5, price soars 1,900% overnight amid leaked ROM keys exploit — Physical copies of the PS4 game go from $20 to $400 on eBay

News that Star Wars Racer Revenge is now essential for the latest PlayStation 5 jailbreaks has sent physical copy prices skyrocketing, sparking a frenzy among collectors and gamers alike.
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AMD closes in on Intel in latest Steam Hardware Survey — RAM capacity continues to rise despite the ongoing memory crunch

AMD is gaining on Intel, with user numbers jumping in the last month of 2025. Gamers are also quickly buying in 32GB of memory or more as the memory crisis is taking its hold.
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Dev uses Claude AI to write a ‘functional NES emulator’ — you can test it now, playing Donkey Kong in your browser

A developer has succeeded in prompting Claude to write ‘a functional NES emulator.’

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Nintendo’s SNES cartridges get a USB-C adapter for playing, backing up, and validation — $59 SN Operator SNES-to-PC device supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, ships in April

Epilogue just announced pre-orders for the SN Operator, a USB-C cartridge reader that lets you play and back up your SNES game library to your computer.
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