Browsing: Handhelds

Until Xbox shares more details on its own homegrown handheld, the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X and its prettier, costlier sibling, the Xbox Ally X20, are the best bang for buck we got for playing PC games on the go. Thankfully, there’s a new AMD upscaling update that makes these handhelds so much better, and…

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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…

Successful handhelds are the envy of gaming manufacturers, as many have spent the last couple of years chasing the Steam Deck’s success. Logitech isn’t among them, though, as it has no plans to release a follow-up to 2022’s G Cloud streaming handheld.

Intel spent the first half of 2026 building toward an answer to the question every handheld gaming PC maker keeps asking: what does Intel actually have to compete with AMD’s Ryzen Z-series chips? That answer is Core Ultra G3 and Core Ultra G3 Extreme, a pair of handheld-tuned processors built on Intel’s Panther Lake architecture.…

Xbox Backward Compatibility has long been the benchmark for backward compatibility on consoles, and rumors of it coming to PC rightly made more than a few players excited at the prospect of playing classic Xbox games which never received an official PC port. Today, Xbox Backward Compatibility was officially launched on PC with the first…