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Gaming handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally X, Lenovo Legion Go 2, and OneXPlayer X2 pack real Windows PCs into a controller-shaped shell, but their onboard GPUs still hit a wall at 1080p in demanding titles. An external GPU (eGPU) changes that math. Plug in the right dock over OCuLink or USB4, and the same…

Six gaming handhelds now compete for the same shelf space, and the gap between the cheapest and priciest option has widened to more than $1,250. Steam Deck OLED, Nintendo Switch 2, ROG Xbox Ally X, MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, Lenovo Legion Go 2, and Retroid Pocket 6 each chase a different buyer, and picking…

It used to be said that video games were bad for you, but they have become the building blocks of some pretty cool things, including KDKA-TV’s new studio!

Gamers have found a novel way to build their own custom Steam Machines: Repurposed crypto-mining hardware based on the PS5 APU. The BC-250 board includes everything you need to get a gaming system up and running, and with SteamOS and a few tweaks, you can get Steam-Machine-like performance for a lot less, as Tom’s Hardware…

Lenovo confirmed this week that its Legion C700 handheld will land in China this August, and the device breaks from every gaming handheld playbook of the past three years. Where the Legion Go, ROG Ally, and MSI Claw all chase more local horsepower, the C700 ships with none of it. Lenovo built the 556-gram device…

Space real-time strategy has never really worked in VR — until now. At the VR Games Showcase on Aug. 13, SpaceOwl Games confirmed that BattleGroupVR2 will arrive in Early Access on Meta Quest on Aug. 28, bringing to standalone headsets a fleet command game that has been steadily accumulating “Very Positive” reviews on Steam since…

A new gameplay trailer for The Rifted Skies appeared at the August 2026 VR Games Showcase, giving VR players their second extended look at DreamVR’s full-body parkour roguelite before its fall Early Access launch on Meta Quest and SteamVR. The studio is betting its eleven-year DreamVR LBE VR background — 80 projects and more than…

Anti-gravity VR racing has had a gap at its center since Sony shuttered Studio Liverpool in 2012, taking the Wipeout franchise with it. Yesterday, at the August 2026 VR Games Showcase, a Cyprus-based indie studio named XOCUS quietly filled it: Omega Pilot: Evolution shadow-dropped on PlayStation VR2 and PS5, making it available right now for…

At the August 2026 VR Games Showcase on August 13, Munich-based indie studio Salmi Games shared new gameplay details for DRIFTERS: Blackout Crew — a four-player, PvE-only co-op extraction shooter set aboard a dying deep-space mothership, targeting both Meta Quest and SteamVR later this year. The game was first revealed at the summer VR Games…

Bootstrap Island arrived on PlayStation VR2 yesterday, bringing the most physics-intensive VR survival game to date to Sony’s headset — and with it, three hardware features that the PC VR version never had: eye-tracked foveated rendering, adaptive trigger resistance, and a vibration motor built directly into the headset body. For PSVR2 owners who have been…