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Rich Stanton

'Doom runs on everything' goes corporate as pricey lawnmower company sets up its army of grass-guzzlers to mow down hell

Husqvarna is a manufacturer of, among other things, pricey robotic lawn mowers and chainsaws. And it is now preparing, for reasons best known to itself, to beam Doom out to around 30,000 owners of its Husqvarna Automower NERA range. 

The manufacturing firm showcased what it was working on at Dreamhack Winter 2023 with a "LA(w)N" party (sorry), which it claims was the first multiplayer championship hosted on a non-gaming device. But now it's ready to roll the thing out to a bunch of (presumably slightly bewildered) enthusiast gardeners, with the original shareware episode of Doom arriving as a free update to their lawnmowers, playable between April and September 2024.

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