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Phil Spencer on a Handheld Xbox Becoming Reality

We’ve seen handhelds come and go with varying success. Nintendo has the space locked down, even melding its home console with a handheld for the popular Switch. PlayStation doesn’t make dedicated handhelds anymore, but they do have mirroring handhelds you can purchase…

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“Don’t Sniff Your Steam Deck,” Says Valve

Do I really need to explain this one? The internet is once again at the height of, “Why do you exist to do these things?” In a now-viral post on Reddit, one user by the name of Metapod100 asked Steam Support: “Is it safe…

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Steam Decks No Longer Require Reservations

Handheld gamers with huge Steam libraries, rejoice, for a most joyous day is upon us! In a new video that Valve posted to their official YouTube channel yesterday afternoon, they announced three pieces of news pertaining to the Steam Deck. I admittedly…

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Steam Deck (Tech) – Review

A year ago, I thought it would be impossible to get a PlayStation 5. Out of stock virtually everywhere and selling out in seemingly seconds anytime it went back in stock, it wasn’t until I reserved one through the PlayStation Direct site…

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Valve to Fulfill All Existing Steam Deck Orders This Year

If you’ve reserved a Steam Deck anytime in the past few months and are waiting for that fateful email that will allow you to complete your purchase, it certainly appears as though Valve has some good news for you. In a recent…

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Valve Shares “2021 Year in Review” Post

It’s that time of year once again when companies like Valve take a look back at their performance in the previous year. Thankfully for data nerds and die-hard Steam users like myself, Valve in particular tends to make those metrics public within…

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iFixit Will Carry Steam Deck Replacement Parts

Lo and behold, Valve hath decreed further Steam Deck news from atop the hills of Bellevue! This news technically comes just a couple of hours after I wrote about Valve having released the computer aided design files for the Steam Deck’s case…

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You Can Now 3D Print Your Own Steam Deck Case

I want to make something quite clear right off the bat here, folks. I do not know the first thing about computer aided design or 3D printing. I’ve never tried to rectify that, and I intend to make no effort to pretend…

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Steam Deck’s Initial Ship Date Now Confirmed

Friends, countrymen, fellow PC gamers who long to take their Steam libraries on the go without lugging around a dedicated gaming laptop, lend me your attention. What may well be the most joyous of occasions for the PC gaming scene in recent…

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Valve Shares New Steam Deck Details

Back in July, I rounded up all the officially confirmed knowledge I could find about Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck into an article. Even at that point, I had a sneaking suspicion that my work would soon be rendered obsolete because Valve would…

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