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From Steam Deck to Steam Brick.
The smaller and lighter Steam Brick says goodbye to nan Steam Deck’s screen, controls, and artillery and stuffs nan remaining electronics into a civilization 3D-printed lodging featuring conscionable a USB larboard and a powerfulness button.
What handheld PCs should do to conflict nan Nintendo Switch 2
I stopped buying astir games for my Nintendo Switch nan clip I bought a Steam Deck. My Switch has been a Mario and Zelda instrumentality ever since. It’s simple: nan Steam Deck took nan Switch’s champion instrumentality — pick-up-and-play portability — while offering overmuch games that tally better. I tin easy resume nan ones I started connected my desktop PC, aliases proceed to play portable titles connected my desktop and marvel astatine improved graphics.
But nan Nintendo Switch 2, coming later this year, whitethorn alteration that worthy proposition. Not only will it proceed to beryllium nan console that attracts families and kids pinch inventive, surprising, must-try exclusive Nintendo games that usage its detachable Joy-Cons’ galore tricks, but it too has a existent chance astatine convincing nan enthusiasts who mightiness different bargain a handheld gaming PC — aliases who were waiting for handheld PCs to spell small of a chaotic west.
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The $900 Ayaneo 3 is nan astir breathtaking PC handheld nan company’s yet made
Ayaneo builds nan best-looking handheld PCs successful nan business, but they’ve ever been boutique. The 2023 Ayaneo 2, for example, costs $1,300 for an arguably worse acquisition than nan $400 Steam Deck. But that acquisition isn’t dampening my excitement for nan caller 7-inch Ayaneo 3.
Not only does this 1 commencement astatine $900, incorrect striking region of nan highest-end handhelds you’ll find astatine retail, it’s nan astir feature-packed portable I’ve seen — pinch 2 USB4 ports and OcuLink and RGB-ringed Hall effect joysticks and your premier of 2 seemingly slayer screens. Perhaps astir exciting: a measurement to yet spread a handheld’s joystick and fastener layout to lucifer your ergonomic preferences!
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Maybe elephantine gaming handhelds are wherever it’s at
If you thought nan Steam Deck was big, fto unsocial Acer’s Nitro Blaze 11, get a load of this Frankenstein’s monster of a PC gaming handheld I’ve cobbled together. This is simply a pre-production type of Asus’s upcoming ROG Flow Z13 tablet mixed pinch a GameSir G8 Plus clamp-on mobile controller; nan Z13’s AMD Strix Halo processor makes it astir apt nan astir powerful handheld gaming instrumentality you tin play. That is, of course, until your hands cramp nether its weight.
It’s utterly ridiculous, I emotion it, and I’m opening to deliberation ample screens are nan future.
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Hey that’s me, chatting astir nan Intel / Quanta prototype modular handheld conception that amazed maine astatine CES.
If you’d alternatively personification overmuch photos and not-quite-details astir this prototype, find ‘em here.
I played pinch nan caller Legion Go 2, too.
The SteamOS and/or Windows-toting Lenovo Legion Go S was nan champion handheld of CES 2025, but it wasn’t nan only Lenovo portable I took for a spin! The 3rd clip was nan charm for this detachable-controller and kickstand Legion Go 2 prototype, which I recovered moving astatine nan 3rd venue I encountered it.
Microsoft is combining ‘the champion of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
Image: The Verge
Xbox main Phil Spencer has been dropping hints astir an Xbox handheld for months, but what astir Windows handheld gaming PCs? Jason Ronald, Microsoft’s VP of “Next Generation,” tells The Verge that we should expect to spot nan Windows handheld gaming acquisition alteration incorrect this almanac year.
Ronald was a roundtable panelist this evening astatine an AMD and Lenovo arena titled “The Future of Gaming Handhelds,” which was mostly a coming-out connection for Lenovo’s caller Legion Go S. But he did hint onstage that Microsoft plans to bring nan Xbox acquisition to Windows PCs, alternatively than nan different measurement astir — and expanded connected that considerably aft we caught up pinch him later.
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I yet touched nan MSI Claw 8 AI Plus.
The Intel Lunar Lake handheld, connected discarded now, looks and feels SO overmuch amended than nan original, and I comprehend it performs acold better, too.
A look incorrect nan Lenovo Legion Go S.
Lenovo sent Dave2D an afloat pre-production information of nan soon-to-be Steam-ified Legion Go S, complete pinch its Lenovo-exclusive AMD Z2 Go chip, truthful he’s sewage nan champion look yet. You tin spot its full-length SSD slot coming (with spacer for smaller drives) for easy upgrades.
He besides ran early benchmarks that propose it’ll surely personification overmuch capacity than nan Steam Deck. We immoderate activity together it won’t beryllium a artillery life champ.
Valve will officially fto you instal SteamOS connected different handhelds arsenic soon arsenic this April
Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge
SteamOS was ever expected to beryllium bigger than Valve’s ain Steam Deck, and 2025 is nan twelvemonth it yet expands. Not only will Lenovo alloy nan first third-party SteamOS handheld this May, Valve has now revealed it will fto you instal a moving transcript of SteamOS connected different handhelds moreover sooner than that.
Pierre-Loup Griffais, 1 of nan lead designers connected nan Steam Deck and SteamOS, tells maine a beta for different handhelds “is slated to alloy aft March sometime,” and that you mightiness observe nan OS conscionable starts moving decently aft that happens!
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Up adjacent pinch nan SteamOS-powered Lenovo Legion Go S.
Sorry I couldn’t proviso immoderate capacity aliases artillery impressions, though: this information has an aged Z1 Extreme spot inside, nary intensive games connected display, not moreover a Portal 2 savegame.
Lenovo’s officially making a Legion Go 2, too.
The Legion Go S is nan contiguous successor to nan Legion Go handheld, minus nan detachable gamepads / rodent / kickstand and affirmative a SteamOS option. But a Legion Go 2 is coming sometime successful 2025, Lenovo has announced.
Specs spot Ryzen Z2 Extreme, an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED aboveground pinch VRR (!), and a ample 74Wh battery. This 1 didn’t move on, but nan grips are decidedly comfier!
1/5Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys nan first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld
Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially spell nan very first institution extracurricular of Valve to alloy a handheld gaming PC pinch nan Steam Deck’s wonderfully pick-up-and-play SteamOS alternatively of Microsoft Windows. And astatine $499, it’ll beryllium a existent Steam Deck rival, joining it arsenic 1 of nan lower-priced PC handhelds you tin buy.
That handheld will beryllium nan 1.6-pound Lenovo Legion Go S, a caller and improved type of nan company’s eight-inch handheld that ditches nan Nintendo Switch-like detachable gamepads and kickstand for a lighter and overmuch accepted design, pinch a sculpted grip that felt supremely comfortable successful my hands.
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Asus conscionable announced nan world’s first Thunderbolt 5 eGPU
This steaming achromatic translucent instrumentality isn’t a gaming PC — instead, it mightiness beryllium nan astir powerful single-cable portable docking position ever conceived. When you plug your laptop aliases handheld into nan just-announced 2025 Asus XG Mobile, it promises to adhd nan powerfulness of Nvidia’s top-flight GeForce RTX 5090 mobile chip, and up to 140 watts of electricity, and 2 monitors, and a USB and SD-card-reading hub, and 5Gbps ethernet simultaneously.
That’s because it’s nan world’s first* Thunderbolt 5 outer graphics insubstantial and 1 of nan first Thunderbolt 5 docks, utilizing nan caller 80 gigabit per 2nd bidirectional nexus to do overmuch things pinch a azygous cablegram than we’ve ever seen before.
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No, Valve isn’t moving pinch GPD to bring SteamOS to its handheld.
Valve conscionable squashed its 2nd Steam Deck-adjacent rumor successful 1 day. “We’re not presently moving pinch GPD connected charismatic SteamOS support,” Valve designer Lawrence nan tells The Verge.
Intel brought a ample honking stereo 3D handheld gaming PC to CES 2025.
It’s co-developed pinch Tencent, it’s called nan Sunday Dragon, and it’s perfectly immense pinch an 11-inch autostereoscopic aboveground (like nan Nintendo 3DS but massive). I astir dropped it trying to region its detachable controllers.
The 3D popped to life conscionable bully for me, and while nan heft gave maine pause, nan grips are sculpted nicely. Lunar Lake inside.
AMD’s Z2 handheld gaming chips are charismatic — and not coming to a Steam Deck adjacent you
AMD has conscionable officially announced its afloat lineup of Ryzen Z2 chips for handheld gaming PCs for illustration nan Steam Deck, aft a little tease this autumn — but arsenic of today, it’s beautiful muddy who they’re for aliases what they’re going to do for handheld PC gaming.
First off, though AMD told journalists successful a pre-recorded briefing that Valve’s Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, and Asus ROG Ally lineups would each characteristic nan caller chips, it’s not clear that’s really true.
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Acer made an tremendous 11-inch gaming handheld
Image: Acer
Acer is announcing 2 caller Nitro Blaze gaming handhelds astatine CES 2025, and 1 of them, nan Nitro Blaze 11, is genuinely elephantine pinch a monolithic 10.95-inch screen.
Seriously, it’s immense — conscionable look astatine this photograph of a personification holding it! It’s absurd!
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Ayaneo 3: could nan “world’s first modular handheld” lick nan awesome joystick debate?
It’s astir apt going to costs a buttload of money, but I’m earnestly intrigued: could this modular creation fto immoderate of america get symmetrical sticks, others offset Xbox-style sticks, and still others bask touchpads aliases different buttons instead?
Still, looks for illustration you’ll personification to “pick two” astatine a clip — while nan Steam Deck offers dual touchpads, dual sticks and D-pad simultaneously.
The Steam Deck has yet been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s ain experience
An Asus ROG Ally X, moving Bazzite. It looks conscionable for illustration SteamOS, because they banal an interface.
The first clip I installed Bazzite connected a Windows gaming handheld, I laughed. It looked for illustration specified a blatant clone of Valve’s Steam Deck interface. Its galore bugs kept maine astatine bay.
Now, an Asus ROG Ally X moving Bazzite has each but replaced nan Steam Deck successful my life. For nan moment, it whitethorn beryllium nan champion handheld your clip and money tin bargain — because it brings 90 percent of nan Deck’s easiness of usage to nan Ally’s overmuch powerful hardware, larger 80 watt-hour battery, and adaptable refresh title screen. Depending connected nan game, it tin moreover relationship amended capacity and artillery life than nan very aforesaid handheld pinch Windows. I’ve been testing it for 5 months, and I’ve seldom looked back.
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Valve will beryllium Lenovo’s ‘special guest’ astatine just-announced gaming handheld event
Image: Evan Blass (X)
“The early of gaming handhelds is coming to CES ‘25 and you personification a beforehand connection seat!” nan email successful my inbox exclaims.
Let maine translate: it looks for illustration Lenovo conscionable tacitly confirmed it will denote its first SteamOS handheld successful Las Vegas connected aliases earlier January 7th, 2025. We’re expecting it to beryllium nan Steam fastener equipped Legion Go S that leaker Evan Blass revealed past week.
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Leak: Lenovo’s larger Legion handheld adds OLED and keeps nan detachable mouse
Earlier today, Evan Blass revealed an unannounced Lenovo Legion Go S handheld gaming PC pinch an highly intriguing twist: a Steam fastener that suggests it could beryllium nan first third-party SteamOS handheld, and frankincense nan first existent competitor to nan Steam Deck.
But that handheld gaming PC apparently won’t beryllium alone: Blass conscionable provided The Verge pinch these images of a new, larger Lenovo Legion Go arsenic well.
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The first batch of refurbished Steam Deck OLED is already sold out.
I whitethorn personification hinted to my family that I wanted an OLED upgrade arsenic my 1 Christmas coming this year... wonderment if they saw it successful time?
Valve is now trading refurbished Steam Deck OLEDs starting astatine $439
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
The Steam Deck OLED, nan champion type of Valve’s gaming handheld pinch further artillery life, a flimsy summation to performance, and an eye-popping screen, tin now beryllium purchased refurbished for $110 small than it costs brand-new.
Valve has conscionable begun trading certified refurbished Steam Deck OLED models starting astatine $439 successful nan US, UK, Canada, and EU. That buys you nan 512GB exemplary pinch a glossy screen, while nan 1TB anti-glare exemplary tin beryllium had for $519 — small than nan $549 you’d net to get moreover nan 512GB exemplary brand-new. (The 1TB exemplary usually costs $649.)
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MSI claims its caller Claw tin deed nan ROG Ally X while consuming little watts.
Lots of YouTubers conscionable sewage to effort nan caller handheld, but haven’t validated that state alternatively yet.
1/2Note nan bully print: these are pinch XeSS aliases FSR upscaling enabled. Image: MSI via Cyber Dopamine
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