Microsoft announces surprise Xbox Game Pass price cuts, ends day one Call of Duty inclusion — Ultimate down to $22.99 while PC Game Pass drops to $13.99

Microsoft surprise-drops significant Xbox Game Pass price cuts

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Apple’s Pippin console launched 30 years ago today — shunned by the public as too expensive and too slow, only 42,000 units were sold

Apple’s Pippin was plucked from the tree 30 years ago today but would soon go past its sell-by date.

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Polymega Remix can digitize retro games for Windows 11 PCs and handhelds, USB peripheral accepts games CDs, cartridges — $199 units finally ship next month following years of production delays

Playmaji has opened pre-orders for its $199 USB peripheral that lets owners digitize and play physical retro games on Windows 11 PCs, laptops, and PC gaming handhelds
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Testing PC games using FEX on a high-end Android tablet can yield playable results — but the early tech is still not ready for prime time

We take a brief look at FEX, the translation layer that allows PC games to run on ARM64 devices, such as Android Tablets. While the results are promising, it still has a long way to go.
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SNK revives the mighty Neo Geo in modern form — new AES+ system plays classic games without emulation

The Neo Geo AES+ is real, it’s coming this November

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Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux

Valve has released Proton 11.0-Beta1, with support for Arm devices.

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Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout

The retro community seems sharply divided over a decision by Commodore regarding locking down firmware access in its C64 Ultimate computer.
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Pragmata PC performance tested: 18 GPUs take us to the Moon

Capcom’s Pragmata blends strategic gunplay and split-second puzzle solving for a fresh and fun adventure on the Moon. Oh, and everything is 3D printed. We tested 18 different GPUs for rasterization, ray tracing, and path-t…

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Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

Your Steam games are about to get some new glanceable information next to their price boxes, according to recent changes discovered in the client’s backend. Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to the platform, let…

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Lenovo hikes Legion Go 2 handheld gaming PC to almost $3,000 for 2 TB model — Handheld now costs more than AMD’s Strix Halo devices despite relatively weaker Z2 Extreme chip

Lenovo has raised the prices of its Legion Go 2 handhelds (with Z2 Extreme) across the board, with the worse offended being the 2 TB model, receiving a 93% hike. It went from $1,480 at launch to a staggering $2,850 in the …

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