Items tagged with handheld gaming
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, Aug 26, 2024
It certainly is an interesting experience sitting anywhere in the house and loading up PlayStation 5 game, without being next to Sony's console. This is what Sony's PlayStation Portal has allowed owners of the console to do, and it has...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 19, 2024
After teasing its entry into the handheld game console space at Computex earlier this year, Zotac is now officially a player, having chosen Gamescom 2024 as the launchpad for its first Zone system (ZGC-G1A1W). Zotac also chose to target...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Aug 14, 2024
Back in May, Nintendo spilled the beans on its Switch 2 launch plans, saying a "successor" to its wildly popular handheld game console would arrive "within this fiscal year." Nintendo's fiscal year runs through March 2025, so any time...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 19, 2024
The Prime Day sales event may have come and gone, but there are still deals out there, like a chunky $500 discount on a Sony mirrorless camera that we already highlighted. One more you can add to the pile is MSI's Claw handheld. The...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 04, 2024
MSI is teasing several upcoming products at Computex, one of which is a second generation Claw handheld game console based on chips featuring Intel's newly announced Lunar Lake architecture. More than just a processor swap, the next...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 03, 2024
After teasing a refresh to its ROG Ally gaming handheld, ASUS at Computex officially unveiled the ROG Ally X, an upgraded console with more storage, faster RAM, longer battery life, and better cooling, to name some of the highlights. What...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 29, 2024
The PC gaming handheld console market continues to expand, both with refreshed consoles like the Steam Deck OLED and upcoming ASUS ROG Ally X, and with more newcomers joining the fray. As it pertains to the latter, Zotac is getting ready...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, May 27, 2024
As handheld PC game consoles grow in popularity, so too does the number of storage options in the M.2 2230 form factor that many of them use, including Valve's Steam Deck, Lenovo's Legion Go, MSI's Claw, and the ASUS ROG Ally...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 23, 2024
ASUS recently teased a refresh of its ROG Ally console that will come with some key upgrades, including more memory, though it won't be an overhaul to such an extent that it will qualify as a second-generation ROG Ally 2. Instead, the ROG...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 22, 2024
It's barely been three weeks since MSI dished out a BIOS update for its Claw handheld game console with claims of boosting gaming performance by up to a whopping 150%. Not resting on its laurels, there's yet another BIOS update available...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 15, 2024
There have been several recent reports claiming that MediaTek and NVIDIA are in cahoots on designing an AI superchip that could rival Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite hardware. That in and of itself is interesting, but there could be more to...
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Thiago Trevisan - Tue, May 14, 2024
Gaming handhelds that breach into the world of PC gaming have been all of the rage the last few years after the release of Valve's Steam Deck. While handheld consoles such as the Nintendo Switch have been ultra-popular, its walled garden...
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Thiago Trevisan - Mon, May 13, 2024
The Steam Deck has endeared fans the world over with its uncanny ability to power through demanding PC games in a competent and portable fashion. Part of this capability stems from the excellent support on the software side that Valve has...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, May 10, 2024
Exactly how hot is the modern handheld gaming market that Nintendo and later Valve helped popularize? So hot that manufacturers are releasing iterative upgrades in between major new handheld console launches. We saw it with the Switch...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 09, 2024
It could be close to a year before Nintendo gets around to unveiling the Switch 2 or Switch Pro, or whatever its next-gen console ends up being called. All we know for sure is that Nintendo "will make an announcement about the successor to...
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Thiago Trevisan - Wed, May 08, 2024
Video game handhelds are experiencing a renaissance period like never before, with a myriad of devices released during the last several years. Ayaneo is one such company that is producing these devices at a breakneck pace, and now it is...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 22, 2024
At this point, the handheld gaming market is more mature than it was when Valve introduced its Steam Deck a couple of years ago. It's a more competitive landscape now than it was in early 2022, and as we know, competition breeds better...
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Ben Funk - Thu, Feb 29, 2024
Lenovo Legion Go (starts at $699, as tested $749) Lenovo's entry into the handheld PC gaming device space has great performance for its size, solid battery life, and a beautiful display. Beautiful, high-resolution screen Comfortable controllers Good performance for a handheld PC...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 20, 2024
If Valve is sweating the increased competition in the handheld PC gaming space that it played a huge role in popularizing with the Steam Deck, the company isn't showing it. And if taking Valve at its word, it welcomes all newcomers to the...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Nov 10, 2023
If you're reading HotHardware, there's a solid chance that you recall a time when device makers were going completely insane with the designs of their hardware. Just about everything now is a very boring slab or block with...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Nov 09, 2023
One of the most common criticisms of Valve's generally-excellent Steam Deck is that the screen is a bit lack-luster.. While response times are good, it is a basic IPS LCD with characteristically-weak contrast ratio and mediocre color...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Oct 31, 2023
Sony announced its PlayStation Explore wireless earbuds, PlayStation Elite wireless headset, PlayStation Link USB adapter, and its highly anticipated PlayStation Portal remote player. All the new devices will be launched in time for the...
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