Valve hikes Steam Deck OLED prices — 512GB is now $789, while 1TB climbs to $949

The Valve Steam Deck is seeing price hikes as high as $300 as the component shortage continues.

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Lenovo says it’s digging into allegations that its China-only G10 handheld is being used for piracy — third parties may be including illicit games to inflate prices in the gray market

Lenovo has announced it is conducting an in-depth investigation of its Chinese retail supply chains following allegations that its recently released G02 retro-gaming handheld is enabling piracy.
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Acer is reportedly working on a ‘Predator Atlas 8’ handheld featuring Intel’s Arc G3 chips — Panther Lake-based handhelds expected to be revealed at Computex 2026

At Computex next month, Intel is expected to reveal a bunch of handhelds rocking its Arc G3 series of chips, and Acer is now rumored to be one of the manufacturers showing off its devices. New leaks say a “Predator Atlas 8…

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Lenovo G02 retro handheld allegedly comes preloaded with thousands of copyrighted games, including Nintendo ROMs — company confirms that it’s an officially white-labeled device meant for the Chinese market

Lenovo confirms that it partnered with a third-party manufacturer to build, sell, and market the G02 retro gaming handheld in China. However, it allegedly contained thousands of gaming ROMs, many from Nintendo, right out o…

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Enthusiast crams reversed-engineered PS2 into a handheld, designs custom motherboard — bespoke “PlayStation 2 Portable” pairs modern features with original silicon

What if you wanted to play PS2 games on the go but didn’t want to emulate them? Meet the PS2 Portable: an open-source handheld pieced together with a custom motherboard featuring original PS2 silicon and modern niceties su…

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Lenovo joins retro gaming handheld race with new G02 system for $63 — handheld for sale on AliExpress, listed on Lenovo’s official China site

AliExpress has started selling the Lenovo G02, a retro handheld gaming device that the company has not announced.

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I’m rocking the original Switch in 2026. It just works because everything else got complicated

Nintendo’s original Switch is weaker than today’s handhelds, but in 2026, its simplicity feels less like a weakness and more like the whole point.

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Testing PC games using FEX on a high-end Android tablet can yield playable results — but the early tech is still not ready for prime time

We take a brief look at FEX, the translation layer that allows PC games to run on ARM64 devices, such as Android Tablets. While the results are promising, it still has a long way to go.
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Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux

Valve has released Proton 11.0-Beta1, with support for Arm devices.

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Lenovo hikes Legion Go 2 handheld gaming PC to almost $3,000 for 2 TB model — Handheld now costs more than AMD’s Strix Halo devices despite relatively weaker Z2 Extreme chip

Lenovo has raised the prices of its Legion Go 2 handhelds (with Z2 Extreme) across the board, with the worse offended being the 2 TB model, receiving a 93% hike. It went from $1,480 at launch to a staggering $2,850 in the …

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