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Maingear is making 50 limited edition Doom PCs that look metal af. The $2,999 Hurt Me Plenty, $3,999 Ultra-Violence, and $5,999 Nightmare models are a collaboration with case maker HAVN. Inside each is a TRYX 360 Panorama SE liquid cooler playing clips of classic Doom on its wraparound LCD. 🤘🏻
ARC Raiders, the upcoming extraction shooters from the makers of The Finals, debuts later this month, and Nvidia is ready. Today’s Game Ready driver (version 581.57) includes support for ARC Raiders, Pax Dei, The Outer Worlds 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. It also has fixes for Steam overlay stability issues, Black Myth: Wukong graphic glitches, and Madden 26 stability problems.
Embrace looks like Elgato’s answer to Herman Miller’s Embody gaming chair. It has a five-step recline with adjustable tilt tension, a headrest, a mesh back, lumbar support, and arm rests that move up, down, forward, back, in, and out. It will be priced at $499.99, and Elgato is aiming to ship Embrace before the Christmas holiday period.
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Does a sale count? Either way, seven months later, Newegg is finally selling an entry-level RX 9070 at MSRP rather than scalping it. Guess it wasn’t “launch-only pricing” after all.
(In case you’re wondering why I call it “scalping,” I did a dive into changing sticker prices back in April.)
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Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is drip-feeding new features coming in the game’s 1.14 update, and online co-op is the first of five teased announcements.
Local co-op came to Vampire Survivors back in 2023, but I’m excited I’ll be able to bother someone other than my wife to play with me.
If you want to see an example of the new Web Shops for mobile and PC, check out the web shop for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.
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You know how Sony’s quietly building a PS5-grade handheld? GPD’s kind of already done it — by stuffing the monster AMD Strix Halo chip in the Framework Desktop and ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet into a handheld that needs SO MUCH electricity. Preorders are live at Indiegogo.
