Items tagged with Handheld
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jan 26, 2026
With the handheld gaming scene taking thanks to hot products like the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, PlayStation fans have been yearning for one of their own. Sony delivered a half-hearted effort with the ever-evolving PlayStation...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 22, 2026
Ayaneo is sharing a few more details about its Pocket S Mini gaming handheld that it unveiled in September of last year. We now know that it will feature a premium full CNC metal frame instead of a plastic housing, and a display with a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 16, 2026
It sure sounds like Gigabyte is planning to release a gaming handheld at some point, according to comments CEO Eddie Lin made at CES, though exactly when and what differentiating features it will have are, for now, a mystery. Not just to...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 09, 2026
Acer is gearing up to launch several gaming handhelds under its Nitro banner, including a supersized Nitro Blaze 11 with a 10.95-inch IPS display and detachable controllers. Or is it? All of the handhelds Acer previously announced were a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 07, 2026
Gamers clamoring for a more powerful version of Lenovo's Legion Go handheld with SteamOS instead of Windows will get their wish in a few months. At CES, Lenovo announced it's planning to release a SteamOS edition of its second-generation...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Dec 08, 2025
Affordable gaming is facing an existential threat from the rise of AI and the resulting insatiable demand for key components. This has led to a massive spike in PC DRAM prices, and storage solutions may not be far behind. The sliver lining is that we're in the midst of the holiday shopping...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Dec 05, 2025
We've been eagerly looking forward to the OneXFly Apex handheld because it's one of the most interesting of the announced PC gaming portables to use AMD's Ryzen AI Max processors, codenamed Strix Halo. We've been so interested in it, we've...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Nov 13, 2025
Valve is releasing a handful of new gaming hardware, including an updated Steam Controller, a standalone VR headset called Steam Frame, and the return of the Steam Machine, this time in a compact cube design that's unofficially been dubbed...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Nov 05, 2025
One-Netbook's highly anticipated OneXPlayer OneXFly Apex handheld has finally received US pricing and release date information after being announced in late September and launching in China last month. We also have a clearer look at the...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 22, 2025
The teardown specialists at iFixIt got their hands on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X handheld (same model we reviewed) and promptly took it apart, and you can view all of the gory (and not-so-gory) details of the surgery in a short video...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Oct 15, 2025
ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X: $999.99 at Best Buy ASUS and Microsoft's new handheld PC gaming machine is a revised version of the original Ally X sporting a new Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, a new Windows gaming frontend, and even-more-premium pricing...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 07, 2025
The sea of PC gaming handhelds has seen a rapid expansion since Valve popularized the category with its Steam Deck. Even Microsoft, which is invested in its Xbox consoles, jumped into the fray with a collaborative effort with ASUS. With...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 26, 2025
At long last, the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally are available to preorder from multiple retailers, which also means we finally have confirmation on how much these handhelds cost. Dispensing with the suspense, the higher-end ROG...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 23, 2025
The Steam Deck is already one of the best bangs for buck in the PC gaming handheld space and the value proposition just got even better with Valve's steep discount in play. For a limited time, the base Steam Deck is is 20% off for a low...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Sep 20, 2025
Lenovo has issued another statement about its upcoming Legion Go 2 handheld, and this time it has nothing to do with the backlash over sticker shock. Not directly, anyway—instead, the general messaging is that it was caught off guard by a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 09, 2025
Lenovo was quite the busy body at IFA 2025 last week, having announced a barrage of gaming related PC products, as well as a bunch of ThinkPads and ThinkBooks, including a nifty ThinkBook VertiFlex concept. Among the mix was a new...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Sep 05, 2025
More PC gaming handhelds based on AMD's Strix Halo silicon are coming, including the first one to flex a powerful Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip. Of course, we knew this already because GamePad Digital (GPD) had teased its upcoming Win 5 handheld...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 29, 2025
At this point, it may seem like a foregone conclusion that Valve will eventually get around to releasing a second-generation Steam Deck handheld, especially since it previously discussed what features might find their way into a followup...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 27, 2025
Intrigued by the handheld gaming market? It's really taken off after Valve proved there was consumer demand with the launch of the Steam Deck, along with Nintendo's massively successful Switch lineup. Whether you're looking to jump into a...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Aug 25, 2025
Gaming handhelds are super hot at the moment, with numerous offerings from big players such as Asus, MSI and Valve. While designs for these devices have mostly coalesced around a singular display flanked on both sides by buttons and...
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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, Aug 21, 2025
The engineers on Microsoft's DirectX team are always busy bees, constantly working on one improvement or another. Today, the team announced that it's taking initial steps to get rid of a perennial annoyance in PC gaming: shader compilation...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Aug 14, 2025
An eager beaver on Amazon's web team flipped the switch on a retail listing for the upcoming ASUS ROG Xbox Ally handheld weeks before it is scheduled to release. We know it went live weeks early because in the short time that the listing...
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