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Manjaro Linux gaming handheld is the biggest Steam Deck challenger yet

A new Manjaro Linux gaming handheld will be launching soon and will be the first direct competitor to the Steam Deck.

Windows Central

I found the perfect Steam Next Fest demo for my Steam Deck OLED: a psychedelic shooter where you use one bullet to chain-snipe a bunch of cultists

The Steam Next Fest demo for Children of the Sun feels like a perfect match for the Steam Deck OLED and it's fancy new 90hz display.

GamesRadar

Counter-Strike 2 adds fan-favourite mode, its first weapon skins, custom sticker placement, and something a little shocking

Gear up.

PC Gamer

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Surprise! Steam's Lunar New Year Sale is back

Valve dropped the Lunar New Year Sale event in 2022, but apparently it's had a change of heart.

PC Gamer

There's one thing gaming laptops need to learn from Valve, Lenovo, and Ayaneo handhelds: Trust us

The level of granular control over the hardware inside modern handheld gaming PCs is a million miles away from that available to gaming laptops.

PC Gamer

Radeon graphics cards maybe aren't as popular as AMD might like us to think they are, at least according to the Steam HW Survey

Either that or AMD has just been really, really unlucky in the survey sampling.

PC Gamer

Steam Next Fest countdown – here's when Valve's next demo extravaganza kicks off

The Steam Next Fest February 2024 start time is nearly here and with it so many demos

GamesRadar

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‘It’s rotting young people’s brains’: the murky world of gambling in video games

In-game purchases of bonus items have long been available. But now gamers are being lured into casino-style betting to win them

The Guardian - UK

Steam bullied into adding a dwarf tag by the short king tag team of Deep Rock Galactic and Dwarf Fortress

It took some doing, but dwarves now have their very own featured category page on Steam. (And so do elves.)

PC Gamer

Steam survey suggests more players are upgrading to 16GB RAM

Valve's Steam hardware survey for January hints that more players are upgrading and using gaming PCs with 16GB RAM as a minimum rather than 8GB.

GamesRadar

'Dwarf' is now a tag on Steam following silly yet "very serious" demands from Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic devs

It's a big win for the little guys

GamesRadar

Steam Deck OLED is vulnerable to burn-in — but only if you use it wrong

Thanks to the nefarious work of a “worse case scenario” app, one dedicated YouTuber has managed to blight his Steam Deck OLED with a form of burn-in. Hoo-boy does it take a monumental amount of time to get there, though.

Tom’s Guide

Elon Musk's Neuralink has stuck a device in someone's brain and he's already talking up its theoretical uses: 'Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist'

Transhumanism can wait. For now, Neuralink's first human patient is "recovering well".

PC Gamer

The MSI Claw will cost $699, and I think that’ll give the Steam Deck a boost

MSI Claw price information is now live, and it looks like the handheld PC will avoid fighting the Steam Deck when it comes to cost.

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Stormgate was already fully funded—then it earned $2M on Kickstarter

Frost Giant's RTS was the top videogame Kickstarter of 2023.

GamesRadar

Acer is “watching” the handheld gaming PC scene, and I hope that means budget options

Acer could eventually create a Steam Deck rival, as the company's is apparently watching the handheld gaming PC race with interest.

PC Gamer

Dark and Darker dev claims Nexon's preliminary injunction has been dismissed, court rules that the game 'cannot be considered an infringement of Nexon's copyright or trade secret'

The lawsuit is still ongoing, but this seems like a big win for Ironmace.

Tom’s Guide

My OLED TV has ruined Steam Deck OLED for me — here’s why

As much as our UK computing editor love his Steam Deck OLED, it just can’t compete with the experience of playing PC titles on a powerful PC on a colossal TV.

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Palworld sails to new heights as it becomes the second-ever Steam game to hit 2 million concurrent players

It's second only to PUBG's 3.2 million players

TechRadar

Immortality creator teases two upcoming games, promises a 'next level FMV' and the 'reinventing' of 3rd person horror

Sam Barlow of Half Mermaid Productions has teased the studio's next two projects with some tantalizing mysteries.

GamesRadar

You can now pay to have your Steam Deck screen upgraded, but I’m not sold on the idea

DeckHD, the company behind the 1200p Steam Deck screen, is now offering an installation service, but I'm not convinced the upgrade is worthwhile.

Windows Central

Palworld AI controversy, Pokémon plagiarism accusations explained

Palworld is 2024's biggest new game right now, but it's also its most controversial. Here's why.

Tom’s Hardware

"Pokemon with guns" game Palworld sells 5 million copies, tops Steam most played in a single weekend

Palworld launched on January 19th, and became Steam's Most Played Game within the span of three days despite (or perhaps encouraged by) a simultaneous launch on Xbox and PC Game Pass. The game's rise hasn't come without controversy, though, for very Nintendo-shaped reasons.

PC Gamer

Little things that matter: Valve is making performance settings in its Steam Deck easier to understand

Motherboard BIOS creators, please could you do the same?

Laptop

Dear Xbox, your app is miserable on the Asus ROG Ally — please fix it

There’s no excuse why the Xbox app should be as miserable on a gamepad as it is. And until we get something decent, I will continue screaming about its issues on Windows 11.

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