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Gift Guide for Handheld Gaming PC Owners

David Sanders — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:00:37 +0000

If you’re looking for gifts (or holiday gifts eventually) for someone in your life (or even yourself) who has a handheld PC gaming system, like a Steam Deck, an ASUS ROG Ally, or a Lenovo Legion Go, I’ve got a few ideas that might help you out. Everything I’ll be suggesting in this article is mainly intended for the Steam Deck specifically, since that’s what I personally own, but I’ll be sure to…

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Console Sale Decreases Don’t Mean Console Gaming is Dead

Taylor Bauer — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:00:11 +0000

There’s growing concern and conversation about the future of gaming as it pertains to where players play their favorite titles. Xbox and Microsoft are betting that the Cloud is the future; meanwhile, Sony is still, alongside Nintendo, firmly in the console space, even as PC hardware moves towards handheld and increasingly takes up space in the ecosystem. All of this is to say that many who love…

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Kingdom Hearts Steam Deck Giveaway Goes Live

Taylor Bauer — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:00:17 +0000

There’s a lot to love about the Kingdom Hearts franchise if you’re a JRPG fan, a Disney fanatic, and a Final Fantasy enthusiast. If you’re into borderline nonsensical plots, there’s plenty for you too. The game series which first launched in 2002 as a joint effort between Square Enix and Disney for the PlayStation 2 is now arriving on the Steam Store. To commemorate the franchise’s arrival…

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Phil Spencer on a Handheld Xbox Becoming Reality

Taylor Bauer — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:00:43 +0000

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 for your PS5. Xbox, on the other hand, hasn’t really explored the space beyond brainstorms and daydreams. Xbox CEO Phil Spencer…

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

Keiran McEwen — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 13:00:29 +0000

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 to inhale the exhaust fumes from the top vent of the Steam Deck? It’s somewhat of a meme to enjoy the fumes[,] but I think I kinda… like it?” Ahh, the smell of thermal paste…

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Steam Decks No Longer Require Reservations

David Sanders — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:00:44 +0000

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 kind of let the cat out of the bag about the biggest piece of news in that video by titling this article the way I did, but I’ll go into more…

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Steam Deck (Tech) – Review

Mike Reitemeier — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:00:23 +0000

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 that this piece of hardware came to be mine. The same felt true for the elusive Steam Deck, which I pre-ordered in July of last year. It wasn’t until a big batch…

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Valve to Fulfill All Existing Steam Deck Orders This Year

David Sanders — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:00:46 +0000

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 post on the Steam Deck’s page on the Steam Community forums, Valve triumphantly proclaimed that they’re “going to be able to fulfill demand sooner than we had estimated for…

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Valve Shares “2021 Year in Review” Post

David Sanders — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:00:05 +0000

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 an annual blog post. I’ve covered a few of Valve’s so-called “Year in Review” blog posts here on Phenixx Gaming in the past, and now that such a post for…

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iFixit Will Carry Steam Deck Replacement Parts

David Sanders — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:00:15 +0000

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 to any tinkerers out there who might be interested in that sort of thing. Now, because Valve has mastered the art of comedic timing, I find myself writing a…

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