Items tagged with Handheld
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A determined modder has finally cracked the code to upgrading the memory on Valve's Steam Deck OLED handheld. Isaac from SlickBuys Mods and Repair posted a video of the mod to YouTube, and in it, he explains that this has been a near-daily...
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Nintendo is warning Switch and Switch 2 owners to use caution when playing on the company's handheld consoles outside in the sweltering heat. Why is that? We're now in the dog days of summer, and if ambient temperatures rise above a...
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Nintendo is getting ready to raise the price of its first-generation Switch consoles, including the Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite, along with select Switch accessories, the company announced. Fortunately, the recently-released...
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The OneXSugar Sugar 1, dubbed the world's first dual-screen transformable handheld by its manufacturer One-Netbook, promises to bring a little Nintendo DS here and some Nintendo Switch there, all powered by a potent Snapdragon G3 chipset...
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Regular HotHardware readers will know that I, your author, am generally a fan of handheld gaming PC devices, as well as that I specifically like to champion the smaller vendors, such as GamePadDigital, OneNotebook, and of course, Ayaneo...
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The MSI Claw A8 Ryzen Edition has officially landed in China, bringing with it AMD's new Ryzen Z2 Extreme—a mobile SoC that trims the fat from the desktop-class HX 370 while keeping the good bits: the full 8-WGP RDNA 3.5 iGPU and a hybrid...
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Nintendo is making history with the Switch 2, it's latest-generation handheld game system that raced to more than 3.5 million units sold in a mere four days, making it the company's fastest-selling console ever. It also outpaced every...
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Folks, it's official—the Switch 2 is Nintendo's fastest-selling console of all time with more than 3.5 million units sold in the four days following its June 5 launch. Nintendo revealed the staggering stat in a press release, which follows...
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Okay, here's the situation, your parents went away on a week's vacation and...wait, my brain went elsewhere for a moment and it's not even throwback Thursday! The actual situation (which as nothing to do with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh...
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Following weeks of anticipation filled with leaks, rumors, and teasers, Microsoft and ASUS have jointly revealed the first official Xbox gaming handhelds called ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X. At first glance, it may seem like these are...
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The Switch 2 has a very long way to go before it can become a contender for Nintendo's best-selling game console of all time (an honor that currently belongs to the Nintendo DS, followed by the original Switch family), but it's off to a...
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Everybody and their uncle wants a Switch 2 console (see our first impressions), though there are only so many of Nintendo's new handheld to go around, and they all pretty much disappeared from store shelves on day 1 (yesterday). What's a...
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