TL;DR: Microsoft has developed a custom Windows 11 version, the "Xbox full screen experience," optimized for handheld gaming on the new Xbox Ally and Ally X devices by ASUS. Launching in 2026, this OS ...

One of the most delightful gadgets to emerge over the past several years is the handheld gaming PC. Popularized by the Steam Deck, these are essentially tiny Windows computers stuffed into a Nintendo ...

Decades after Nintendo popularized handheld gaming with devices like the Gameboy, portable consoles saw a new resurgence in the 2020s. This time, Nintendo faces fierce competition from a platform you ...

One weakness of Valve’s Steam Deck gaming handheld and SteamOS is that, by default, they will only run Windows games from Steam that are supported by the platform’s Proton compatibility layer (plus ...

Nobody really expects Windows on Arm PCs to keep up with their cousins running games locally on AMD or Intel CPUs — but until now, they had trouble simply being allowed to do so. Now, Microsoft is ...

As Linux has improved its gaming support in the last few years, I have wondered how the gap is closing between the experience of using Windows for gaming as opposed to Linux. If we use Windows as a ...