This Mod Made a Steam Machine Faceplate Charge Your Steam Controller
The Steam Machine has swappable faceplates, which is a genuinely good idea that Valve doesn’t appear to have fully exploited. The concept is essentially that…
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Someone Stuffed a Full Retro Console Inside an NES Controller for $17
Most original NES controllers haven’t seen active duty in decades. They survive in storage bins and attic boxes, physically intact and perfectly functional as controllers,…
A $2,699 Gaming PC That Doubles as a Display Case for Figurines
Cables are the dirty secret of PC building. No matter how carefully chosen the components are, or how expensive the case gets, the tangle of…
A BB Pod-Shaped CD Player Straight Out of Death Stranding
When Kojima Productions does something, it rarely feels like a simple product release. It feels like a statement. The new Instant Disc Audio Cp1 DEATH…
KONKR Pocket Advance handheld is AYANEO’s modern take on the Game boy Advance
AYANEO leans towards Nintendo nostalgia more often than not for its handhelds, as we’ve seen in the past. The Flip DS and Pocket DS were…
A Chess Set So Well-Designed It Doubles as Desk Art
Chess has had its design moments before. The Bauhaus crowd took a swing at it in the 1920s. The Staunton standard has been the global…
LEGO built a working Donkey Kong arcade game that lets you throw barrels at Super Mario
In 1982, Universal Studios looked at Donkey Kong, saw King Kong, and sent lawyers. Standard shakedown stuff, and most companies would have folded and paid…
Your 30-Year-Old N64 Cartridges Can Now Play at 4K for $229
Retro gaming has grown into a legitimate market, but the original hardware it celebrates isn’t getting any younger. The Nintendo 64, now nearly 30 years…
Anbernic RG SP is an ultra-slim, modern reinterpretation of the Game Boy Advance SP
Game Boy SP Advance, released way back in 2003, captured the imagination of portable gaming fanatics for all the good reasons. The retro handheld still…
This PlayStation Controller Sofa Was Built for Co-Op Gaming Marathons
Sofas and game controllers are a match made in heaven. Nothing quite screams ‘relaxing gaming sesh’ like a vacant controller lying on an empty sofa,…
A Walnut and Brass Desktop PC That Still Runs an RTX 5090
The PC industry has spent decades optimizing for a buyer who tolerates ugly hardware. Not a buyer who wants it, necessarily, but one who accepts…
Hallmark Just Turned the Original PlayStation Into a $29 Tree Ornament
I didn’t expect to feel anything about a $28.99 plastic ornament. Yet here we are. Hallmark’s 2026 Keepsake collection just introduced its PlayStation Console Ornament…
MSI Just Made a $7,000 Gaming Laptop You’d Want to Display on a Shelf
Gaming laptops have spent years trying to close the gap with desktop performance, and for the most part, they’ve gotten reasonably close. The better ones…
Someone Built a Handheld PS4 Twice Because Sony Never Will
Sony’s PlayStation has always been a home console first and only. The PlayStation Portal, which came closest to answering the demand for a portable PlayStation,…
Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition mouse has active cooling fan inside for sweaty gamers
Long gaming sessions often bring the unavoidable problem of sweaty palms. As stress levels rise during competitive gameplay, grip can become slippery, affecting both comfort…
REDMAGIC Astra 2 Review: The Gaming Tablet That Finally Keeps Its Cool
Gaming tablets have long chased desktop-class performance, but thermal throttling has always been the real ceiling. The more demanding the session, the more heat builds…