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The Steam Deck is an excellent and robust handheld gaming platform. Granted, the ROG Ally is cheaper, but the Steam Deck offers a better user experience, especially thanks to its trackpads. But what if you wanted to use the power of trackpads without shelling out $99 for a Steam Controller? Just use (or buy) an…

The Steam Deck and Switch 2 both have their advantages, but which should you choose for greater raw power?

The Steam Deck is one of the most popular modern handheld gaming platforms on the market (the Nintendo Switch is the most popular), and it’s easy to see why. The Steam Deck is basically a gaming PC that is easier to bring on long trips than a laptop. But all that portability comes at a…

Upper Deck has been on a roll over the past few years, and that trend looks to be continuing thanks to a new powerhouse partnership. Upper Deck previously teamed up with DC Comics to bring their iconic heroes to trading cards and games, and now they have revealed they are teaming up with Hasbro to…

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED and the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X sit at opposite ends of the same idea: a handheld PC you can hold in two hands and play real games on. One runs Linux and costs less than it did last year. The other runs Windows 11, packs a newer Ryzen chip, and…

Every Steam Deck effectively ships as two separate machines bundled into one handheld device. Gaming Mode is the console-style interface most owners live in day to day, but underneath it sits a full KDE Plasma desktop that turns the handheld into a genuine Linux PC. Valve built it that way on purpose. As Valve engineer…

A Steam Deck OLED costs $549 and runs Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly 30 frames per second. A GPD Win 5 costs up to $2,955 and pushes the same game past 60 frames per second at a sharper resolution. That gap sits at the center of the biggest question in handheld PC gaming right now: how…

The handheld gaming PC market just got its clearest fork in the road yet. On one side sits Valve’s Steam Deck OLED, a device that has spent three years proving that a Linux-based, console-like handheld can outsell expectations and keep getting cheaper relative to its power. On the other is Asus and Microsoft’s joint effort,…

TL;DR: Asobi: Remote Play is a SteamOS app (coming to Windows 11) that lets a Steam Deck function like a PlayStation Portal by providing PS5/PS4 remote streaming over Wi‑Fi and PlayStation Plus Premium cloud streaming. Free streaming is 1080p/30 SDR; a paid upgrade adds 1080p/60, HDR, optional 4K upscaling/120 FPS, DualSense‑style haptics, and bitrate/latency controls.…

Buying a PlayStation 5 console in this climate isn’t for everyone, and there are other hardware options available, such as the Steam Deck. If you’ve ever dreamed of playing PS5 games on your Steam Deck, then it’s time to wake up.