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Steam adds more accessibility features and Valve says it's just the start, wants players with disabilities to provide more feedback and suggestions

Part of a wider push that began earlier this year.

Steam's new in-game overlay offers some useful upgrades - and I'm particularly happy about one that exposes a controversial AI trick

Steam's new in-game overlay offers some useful upgrades - and I'm particularly happy about one that exposes a controversial AI trick

Hate 'fake frames' - and games that may enable them without your knowledge? Valve has the answer to the hidden use of frame generation, and more besides.

Why I’m ditching the Steam Deck for the Nintendo Switch 2 for my next summer vacation

Why I’m ditching the Steam Deck for the Nintendo Switch 2 for my next summer vacation

In the battle of the handhelds, the Nintendo Switch 2 wins one very important skirmish: offline mode functionality.

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Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates

Valve is making Steam's overlay more functional: the Steam Client Beta includes the ability to monitor AI-generated and native frame rates simultaneously in games where DLSS/FSR frame generation might be used.

Tom’s Hardware

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

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

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

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

$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.

Tom’s Hardware

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

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

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.

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

"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

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.

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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.

Everything we know about Valve Deckard, the long-awaited sequel to Valve's Index VR headset

I'm rounding up everything we know about Valve Deckard, the rumoured upcoming VR headset and successor to the Valve Index. Here are all the details so far.

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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.

The Independent UK

New Xbox handheld will launch later this year, here’s what to know

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

Tom’s Hardware

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?

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