A severe shortage of memory chips, driven by AI demand and compounded by inflation and tariffs, has made gaming handheld PCs less affordable than ever. Despite the price hikes, the Xbox Ally X remains…
The price of the 1 TB Steam Deck OLED jumped $300 overnight, from $649 to $949, as part of a broader price increase across laptops, mini PCs, and handhelds driven by a memory-pricing crisis. Roughly 9…
AI companies' massive consumption of RAM and storage has driven up hardware prices, including a £200 increase for the Steam Deck, as supply shortages and rising demand create ripple effects across the…
Summer Game Fest 2026 unveiled trailers for major upcoming titles including the Resident Evil: Code Veronica remake, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, and Star Wars Zero Company. The showcase arrives as pub…
Phoronix.com, the Linux hardware testing and benchmarking site, marks 22 years since its founding today. Founder Michael Larabel launched the site in 2004 to focus on Linux hardware reviews, a space t…
Valve has raised prices on all Steam Deck models, citing ongoing component shortages and rising production costs. The price increases range from 10 to 20 percent across the handheld gaming device line…
Valve has raised Steam Deck OLED prices by 43-46%, with the 512GB model now costing $749 and the 1TB model $949, citing increased costs for storage and RAM due to the AI boom and hardware shortages. T…
Nvidia director Andrew Fear stated that the 100-hour monthly playtime cap on GeForce Now's paid tiers was implemented to reduce queue times by preventing service abuse, though only a small percentage …
The article explains two common issues when running Japanese games on Steam Deck: non-ASCII filenames not being accessible due to locale mismatches, and Japanese text displaying as mojibake or causing…