As part of the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Steam service this week, Valve has launched a one-week discount of its popular Linux-based Steam Deck portable gaming PC. From now until September ...

It is such a good time for handheld gaming. Now that the Switch showed how good that larger handheld can be and Valve’s Steam Deck took hold, so many other companies are making and selling handheld ...

Thanks to powerful mobile processors and more compact components, a new generation of handheld PC gaming is here. These portable consoles are a worthwhile consideration over spending loads on a gaming ...

Valve will begin allowing third-party handhelds to license SteamOS starting with Lenovo's new Legion Go S. At CES 2025, Lenovo announced that it will ship a version of its upcoming Legion Go S ...

The ROG Ally is celebrating its 1-year anniversary today, June 13, 2024. Below, we look back at how it overcame launch troubles to become a viable Steam Deck competitor, and a sign of how open the ...

Playtron claims SteamOS is "compatible with Steam only", which isn't true, but is one reason it's giving for creating its own Linux distro called PlaytronOS. When you purchase through links on our ...

It's been a long time coming, but Windows 11 has finally garnered enough steam behind it (pun intended) to take over as the dominant OS on gaming PCs. While there's still some ground for Windows 11 to ...

Hardware Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general ...

One weakness of Valve’s Steam Deck gaming handheld and SteamOS is that, by default, they will only run Windows games from Steam that are supported by the platform’s Proton compatibility layer (plus ...

Few things are as closely associated with PC gaming as Steam. Microsoft might provide the operating system used by most gamers, and Nvidia and AMD power the most popular graphics cards. Intel and AMD ...