Link's Awakening's AI-Built PC Port Is a Steam Deck Gamble
A static recompilation of the Nintendo Switch remake of Link's Awakening is now running on PC, and the developer behind it is refreshingly blunt…
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This $39 Power Bank Recharges Your Steam Deck 1.5 Times
Power banks are the least glamorous purchase in handheld gaming and the one that most often decides whether a 12-hour flight becomes a playthrough or…
GTA 6 Is Coming to PC — Your Steam Deck Won't Run It
Grand Theft Auto 6 lands on consoles in a matter of weeks, and the PC crowd is already circling an early 2027 port window. If you're reading this on…
Why Haunted Chocolatier's Delay Is Good News for Handhelds
Eric Barone built the original Stardew Valley as a "dumb little project" to sharpen his programming while he couldn't find a job. A decade later he's…
A $2.50 Right-Angle USB-C Cable Is a Handheld Charging Steal
Two and a half dollars per cable is less than a coffee, and if you own more than one handheld you already know the pain of digging a spare USB-C cord…
Phasmophobia Hits 30M Sales, Switch 2 Port Still Undated
Kinetic Games once hoped to sell 1,000 copies of Phasmophobia in its first year. It's now past 30 million, and the Crimson Eye Halloween event is…
F-Zero GX's Lost Gold Parts Are Finally Unlockable on Switch 2
Somewhere in a drawer in Japan, there's a memory card that belonged to someone who won an F-Zero GX tournament in 2003, and on it sit five custom…
Anbernic's Dual-Screen RG DDS Takes Aim at Retroid Pocket Duo
Anbernic spent 2026 quietly building out its dual-screen ambitions, and this week it tipped its hand with the RG DDS — a clamshell explicitly aimed…
DroidDeck Puts SteamOS Big Picture on Android Handhelds
SteamOS on an Android handheld has meant a weekend of flashing, partition wrangling, and praying the ABL picks the right boot target. DroidDeck…
Console Sales Crash as the RAM Crisis Reaches Handhelds
The Xbox Series X now sells for $799.99 — a full $300 above its launch price, six years into a console generation that's supposed to be getting…
Tropico 7 Sends El Presidente to Switch 2 — With a Mouse
City builders have been the Switch family's quietest compromise for eight years. Tropico, Cities: Skylines, Two Point Hospital — all portable, all…
Why FF7's Mini-Game Debate Matters for Handheld Players
When Naoki Hamaguchi was asked about the great Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth mini-game debate, he declined to have it. "I often see debates about whether…