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Steam's performance tracking tool is becoming more like the Steam Deck's — you can try it out right now

Valve is making Steam's in-game performance tracking much better, and more in line with how it does things on the Steam Deck. Here's how you can try it out right now.

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Xbox Ally isn’t fazed by Switch 2’s dominance — The PC gaming handheld is battling an entirely different competitor

Xbox Ally isn’t fazed by Switch 2’s dominance — The PC gaming handheld is battling an entirely different competitor

Analysts predict the Switch 2 will outsell all other gaming handhelds combined this year, but that's a non-issue for Xbox Ally. It's a Steam Deck competitor.

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Should Meta be worried? The Valve Deckard VR headset is shaping up to be a beast – here are 5 things we know

Should Meta be worried? The Valve Deckard VR headset is shaping up to be a beast – here are 5 things we know

The Valve Deckard could combine everything I love about the Meta Quest 3 with everything that made the Valve Index great – with one notable exception.

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The humble Steam Deck dock is the reason I'd buy Valve's handheld over a Switch 2 right now

Picking up a Steam Deck dock for Valve's handheld helps it take the Nintendo Switch 2 head-on, and the docked experience is arguably superior.

$3,000 Steam Deck prototype disassembled — concept units had discrete GPU support, smaller joysticks, circular touchpads

Jon Bringus of Bringus Studios explored one of the first iterations of the Steam Deck gaming console.

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Somebody actually bought that $3,000 Steam Deck prototype off eBay, then they let a YouTuber crack it open to see what's inside

I'm glad that Valve iterated beyond this.

Valve does its homework the night before deadline: Switches Steam to run on Mac chips right as Apple announces it's ditching Intel for good

Incredible news if you are A) Me B) One of like three other people on Earth.

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Steam's store now lets you search for games by accessibility features like 'narrated game menus' and 'adjustable difficulty', and more than 5,000 games have already added their accessibility details to the database

Steam's store now lets you search for games by accessibility features like 'narrated game menus' and 'adjustable difficulty', and more than 5,000 games have already added their accessibility details to the database

I think 'save anytime' is just a nice feature to know about in advance no matter who you are.

The Steam store just got a big update with great new features — here's what was added

The Steam store just got a big update with great new features — here's what was added

Valve's globally popular PC gaming client Steam just got a major update that greatly improves its support for showing accessibility features available in a game.

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Steam Deck OLED falls out of stock in US & Canada due to "supply chain constraints" presumably triggered by tariffs — but the price won't increase

Steam Deck OLED falls out of stock in US & Canada due to "supply chain constraints" presumably triggered by tariffs — but the price won't increase

Steam Deck OLED models are out of stock in the US and Canada due to supply chain and tariff challenges, with restock expected by end of summer 2025.

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Xbox boss Phil Spencer shouts out "Nintendo's amazing track record" and the Steam Deck when promoting the ROG Xbox Ally

Xbox boss Phil Spencer shouts out "Nintendo's amazing track record" and the Steam Deck when promoting the ROG Xbox Ally

"I have found that getting to play my favorite games wherever I am just makes me enjoy them more"

Forget Switch 2, ROG Xbox Ally has Steam Deck in its sights — here's why

Forget Switch 2, ROG Xbox Ally has Steam Deck in its sights — here's why

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is Microsoft's big push into handheld gaming, but it isn't gunning for the Nintendo Switch 2. It's got Valve's Steam Deck in its sights.

Windows Mixed Reality is being resurrected by a lone Microsoft employee

Windows Mixed Reality is being resurrected by a lone Microsoft employee

Expected to arrive in Fall 2025, a new driver created by a Microsoft engineer will bridge Windows Mixed Reality headsets and SteamVR for continued use.

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While we wait for a price and release date, here's everything we know about the Steam Frame

While we wait for a price and release date, here's everything we know about the Steam Frame

I'm rounding up everything we know about Steam Frame while we wait for a price and release date from Valve amidst the RAM price apocalypse.

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Xbox Finally Came Up With A Way To Win The Console Wars

The ROG XBox Ally could be much more than just another niche portable gaming PC; its can be the viable Steam Deck competitor gamers actually latch onto.

Xbox is no longer a console, it's a platform, and it's already entered a battle for control over your handheld gaming PC

Xbox is becoming more like PC and Windows is becoming more like Xbox... is Microsoft looking to muscle SteamOS out of the way?

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The Xbox Ally handheld REALLY needs to be priced competitively with the Steam Deck, otherwise it might be hard to recommend

Now we've had the big reveal of the first Xbox handheld experience and the spec sheet to go with it, one thing stands out that means it has to be affordable.

Xbox is headed to handhelds but its gaming-first UI will also land on existing ROG Ally and ROG Ally X and 'other Windows handhelds starting next year'

You won't need to buy an Xbox-branded handheld to benefit from the new UI on Windows devices.

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Where you can pre-order the Xbox Rog Ally console ahead of its October release

The ROG Xbox Ally is a custom-tuned Asus console designed around a new handheld-friendly Xbox interface

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Microsoft 'Xbox PC' branding surfaces in game dev publicity materials — Xbox App also sees big changes

Microsoft quietly changed the branding on Windows gaming, replacing it with the Xbox PC mark.

Half-Life 3 obsessives put Valve boss Gabe Newell under the microscope, tracking his yacht as it gets kind of, sort of, actually not at all near the Summer Game Fest venue

Is stalking wrong if it's for the sake of all gamerkind?

Summer Game Fest 2025 LIVE: Everything announced during the gaming showcase

Summer Game Fest is the ultimate celebration of video games and the creators behind them and this year's event gets underway today.

Valve has the secret to making MacBooks great for gaming, but Apple won't use it

Apple is launching a new dedicate gaming app, but that won't fix the MacBook's gaming issues. Luckily, Valve has the solution Apple needs.

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Can you install SteamOS on a laptop or desktop PC?

You can now put SteamOS on other handhelds like the ROG Ally and Legion Go, but what about a regular laptop or desktop PC? We have some answers.

Deltarune launches to 12,865% more Steam players than Undertale had on day one, becoming the top-selling game on Steam after apparently crashing Valve's servers

The Undertale fandom is showing up in a big way

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