SteamOS on Android Handhelds Finally Stops the Dual-Boot Fiddle
Dual-booting a Snapdragon handheld has always been a trade you make with inconvenience: SteamOS's Proton library on one partition, Android's Play…
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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…
New Ocarina of Time Glitch Works on Switch — and Retro Handhelds
Speedrunners have spent 28 years memorizing every pixel of Ocarina of Time, and the game just handed them a new one. A glitch surfaced by veteran…
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…
SleepManager Cuts Android Handheld Standby Drain — No Root Needed
Leave an Android handheld sitting in a case overnight and there's a decent chance it greets you with a battery percentage that has quietly fallen off…
Your Steam Deck Is Now a Bluetooth Controller, Thanks to Decky
The Steam Deck has been a PC, an emulation vault, and a portable indie machine. The modding scene now wants it to be a spare controller, too. A new…
Nintendo's $4.5M Piracy Ruling Hits Handheld Emulation
Nintendo didn't need James Williams to show up to win. A US District Judge handed the company a $4.5 million (£3.4m) default judgment against the…
Nintendo's $4.5M Pirate Win Is a Warning to Handheld Modders
A $4.5 million default judgment is a brutal way to lose a lawsuit, and it's the bill James Williams — an alleged moderator of r/SwitchPirates — now…
Airbus Is Steering Its Mars Rover With a Steam Deck
Airbus let documentarian Tom Scott drive its ExoMars rover prototype, and the device in his hands wasn't a bespoke control rig with six screens and a…
Pokemon Meets Clair Obscur Combat: Fan Concept Is a Handheld Dream
Pokémon's turn-based battles have stayed stubbornly traditional for over two decades, but a new fan animation suggests what happens when you graft…
12TB Valve Leak Could Change What You Play on Steam Deck
Twelve terabytes of Valve's internal history just hit the internet. The so-called Steam Terraleak — a trove of unreleased builds uploaded to Steam…
Blue Dragon's Port Is Deck-Fantastic; s&box Beta Goes Native Linux
This week's handheld freebie roundup is less about the keys and more about the platform wins. Blue Dragon's native PC port is reportedly fantastic on…