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The Steam Deck Is On Sale For Less Than Nintendo’s 8-Year-Old Switch This Black Friday
25.11.2025
Valve do what Nintendon't
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Valve Announces New Steam Console And Controller
12.11.2025
It looks like Valve is about to announce a bunch of video game hardware, including a new VR headset
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Steam Deck Finally Gets A Fix Fans Spent Years Begging For
5.11.2025
You can now download games and updates while the portable PC's screen is off
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The Steam Deck’s Game-Specific Landing Pages Are Really Misleading
21.10.2025
The Steam Deck is amazing, but it’s not FF7R at 60 FPS amazing
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The Best Thing You Can Buy For Your Steam Deck Is A Kickstand
14.10.2025
Cutting a gaming session short due to pain sucks
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The Steam Deck Just Went On Sale And Is Killing The Competition On Price
22.9.2025
Valve is shaving $80 off the PC gaming handheld for the fall Steam sale
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Here's What May Power The Steam Deck's Successor, But Do We Need One?
23.7.2025
This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve’s popular handheld, Avowed and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being two examples, it’s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation....
Xbox-Branded PC Gaming Handheld Leaks And Looks Exactly Like The Asus Rog Ally 2
7.5.2025
A rumored Xbox PC gaming handheld has leaked thanks to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). No, not the device being developed in-house that Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer previously mentioned was still years away. I’m talking about Project Keenan, the spirit of an Xbox handheld trapped...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Great Games We're Escaping Into After A Crappy Week
2.5.2025
It’s been a week, huh? It looks like we’ll be paying a whole lot more for consoles and games as well as reading and watching a whole lot less great gaming journalism, and on top of all that, GTA 6 isn’t even coming out this year! Read more
Assassin’s Creed Shadows On Steam Deck Surprised Me More Than Getting Stabbed In The Neck
21.4.2025
When I heard Ubisoft claim that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would be Steam Deck verified at launch, I responded by saying “yeah right” with all the sass I could muster. I’ve tested a lot of games on Steam Deck here at Kotaku. I’ve seen games that should be slam dunks on the device fall short, and even...
Early Steam Deck Prototype Seemingly Sold On Ebay For $2,000
9.4.2025
Here’s something odd. Over on eBay someone seems to have spent $2,000 on a Steam Deck prototype which was being sold on the auction site for $3,000. Read more
My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts
3.4.2025
Let me get this out of the way first: I’m not a Nintendo girlie. A couple of decades ago, my parents gave me a choice between N64 or PlayStation for my birthday, and I chose the team with the badass bandicoot and didn’t regret it. It wouldn’t be until 2019 that I’d pick up a Switch and still,...
The Switch 2's Battery Life Is Worse Than The Original
2.4.2025
Battery life for gaming handhelds is always a challenge but the tradeoffs for the Switch 2 appear to be particularly brutal. Nintendo has confirmed that the next-gen device will run for anywhere from 2-6.5 hours on a single charge depending on what you’re playing. It ain’t great. In fact, it’s...
Path Of Exile 2 Is Playable On Steam Deck, But Not Ideal
3.2.2025
ARPGs like Path of Exile 2 and portable gaming devices like the Steam Deck go together like spaghetti and meatballs. Fighting huge mobs of enemies and grinding out rare loot is perfect for pick-up-and-play gaming, especially while you lay in bed listening to all those podcasts your friends keep...
The Best FF7 Rebirth Graphics Settings For Steam Deck
3.2.2025
Let’s cut to the chase; it’s a small miracle that Final Fantasy VII Rebirth runs on the Steam Deck. This is a game so visually demanding that it’s the poster child for the $800 PS5 Pro. Yet, the power of Valve’s handheld device is roughly comparable to last gen’s PS4. On top of that, even Square...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 4 Awesome Games We’re Ready To Kick Back With
31.1.2025
Oh hey, it’s another weekend. Hopefully that means you have some time off from work, the chaos of the 21st century, or other annoying responsibilities and realities. And what better way to escape from that stuff than by jumping into the beautiful interactive art form that most of us refer to...
Someone Ripped Apart A Steam Deck And Turned It Into A Super Small Console
27.1.2025
The Steam Deck is a very popular (and good!) handheld gaming device that lets you play many of your favorite PC games on the go. But what if it was a screenless console you had to plug into a TV to use? Well, someone ripped their own Steam Deck apart to make just that and called it a “Steam Brick.”...
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth On Steam Deck Is Surprisingly Playable But Kind Of Ugly
27.1.2025
2024’s highly anticipated (and very good) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth broke out of its PS5 containment cell to emerge on PC on January 23, 2025. Here, the open-world RPG ostensibly improves its arguably disappointing technical performance and presentation issues on console by way of more powerful...
Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds
8.1.2025
Valve’s handheld device, the Steam Deck, wasn’t the first portable gaming PC ever created, but it is by the far the most successful. And like Steam becoming the de facto way people play PC games in 2025, SteamOS will soon be the most popular way to play PC titles on the go, which is not great...
Microsoft Is Racing To Bring The Xbox Experience To PC Gaming Handhelds
8.1.2025
Microsoft has once more made some loud noises about a possible handheld gaming device. Back in November of 2024, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer confirmed the company is “working on” a handheld gaming device, but said that it was “years out.” Now, speaking to The Verge at tech show CES, another senior...