I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my personal homebrew Steam Machine, a self-built desktop under my TV featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G processor and a Radeon 780M integrated GPU. I wouldn’t recommend ...

Valve will begin allowing third-party handhelds to license SteamOS starting with Lenovo's new Legion Go S. At CES 2025, Lenovo announced that it will ship a version of its upcoming Legion Go S ...

Looking ahead: Multiple benchmarks have shown that Windows games can sometimes run better on Linux through a compatibility layer, but that advantage often hinges on how well a game or hardware ...

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...

Lenovo Legion Go S - SteamOS/Z2 Go version: was $649.99 now $449.99 at Best Buy This kind of pricing, $450 at Best Buy with a sizeable $200 discount for Cyber Monday, is exactly what I wanted out of ...

After the first Steam Machine launched in 2015, Valve gained a reputation for releasing hardware and leaving it to die, alone and unsupported. It's an accurate representation. Valve launched the Steam ...

With the advent of gaming PC handhelds, your entire library of PC games is at your fingertips. Now you can play Steam games like Clair Obscur, Hades, Silksong, or Ball x Pit on a device that's not ...

Valve is not concerned about the limited VRAM on its upcoming Steam Machines, but maybe it should be. New testing from Ars Technica suggests that Windows 11 performs significantly better with 8GB of ...

Even though I own more than 20 retro gaming handhelds, I've always held off from buying a Steam Deck – mainly in the vain hope that a Steam Deck 2 would come along to win me over. However, while ...

A dream shared by PC gamers everywhere has been to take our entire gaming PCs on the go. From LAN parties to powerful gaming laptops, we've gotten close to portable gaming nirvana, yet no solution is ...

Linux isn't the first platform most folks associate with gaming. Back in the day, Linux was lucky to get Frozen Bubble or Tux Racers. But then came Loki Games to prove gaming could be a real thing for ...