handheld gaming

A surprising new twist in the handheld-PC arms race has emerged: reports indicate Lenovo may ship a SteamOS-powered version of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026, offering Valve’s handheld-optimized Linux experience as an alternative to Windows on a top-tier AMD-powered device. If true, this would...

Lenovo’s handheld gamble just got louder: an exclusive report claims the company will ship a SteamOS‑powered version of the Legion Go Gen 2 at CES 2026, pairing Valve’s console‑style operating system with AMD’s desktop‑class Ryzen Z2 Extreme silicon to deliver a full‑fat handheld gaming...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel drop — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 28020.1362 (KB5073095) — extends the company’s experimental platform work with a mix of visible user-facing features and a broad set of reliability fixes aimed at gamers, Copilot+ devices, and power users testing handheld...

Microsoft’s Canary channel just got a substantial refresh: Insiders are reporting a new Windows 11, version 26H1 Canary build — Build 28020.1362 — that layers a broad set of UI and platform tweaks onto the recently unveiled 26H1 baseline, bringing everything from File Explorer dark‑mode polish...

MSI’s Claw A8 has surfaced on U.S. retail pages with a sticker shock that’s hard to ignore: a Newegg listing shows an MSRP of $1,149 for the AMD-powered model, a price that places this compact Windows handheld among the most expensive consumer gaming portables on the market. The listing — paired...

Microsoft will bring its OS-level AI upscaling, Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), to the ROG Xbox Ally X in a public preview early in 2026 — a move that aims to make Windows 11 a far stronger platform for handheld PC gaming by using the Ally X’s on‑die NPU to upscale low-resolution game...

Microsoft’s late-year pledge to “make Windows the best place to play” is a tacit admission that Valve’s SteamOS has become a real competitive threat in the fast-growing handheld PC gaming market, and the performance data from side‑by‑side tests show Valve’s lean, gaming‑focused OS currently...

Microsoft just told PC gamers it’s going to make Windows 11 noticeably faster and smoother for games — not with one flashy headline feature, but with a coordinated, cross‑stack push that touches the OS shell, DirectX, driver delivery, and handheld‑specific power and scheduler behavior to reduce...

Microsoft’s year-end wrap for PC gaming is both a reassurance and a roadmap: after a year that produced meaningful technical progress — from the Xbox Full Screen Experience on handhelds to the arrival of DirectX Raytracing 1.2 — the company has publicly committed to one central goal for 2026...

Microsoft’s public roadmap for Windows 11 promises a substantive, cross‑stack push in 2026 to reduce stutter, lift frame rates and make gaming on PCs — especially handhelds and mobile form factors — feel closer to a console experience by combining OS-level AI upscaling, precompiled shader...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 push for gaming is built around a simple promise: reduce the PC friction that keeps games from feeling like console experiences, especially on handheld and low‑power devices, by attacking performance from the OS down through drivers, graphics tooling, storefront...

Microsoft has publicly promised a coordinated, cross‑stack push to make Windows 11 “the best place to play,” spelling out a roadmap of OS‑level, graphics and driver changes aimed at delivering noticeably smoother, faster gameplay on desktops, laptops and — critically — handheld gaming PCs in...

Microsoft’s renewed, cross‑stack push to make Windows 11 “the best place to play” has moved from roadmap promises into concrete features and early previews — and for the first time in years the company is clearly tackling the system‑level sources of stutter, long first‑run delays, and uneven...

Microsoft says it will keep refining Windows to deliver noticeably better gaming performance — not through one-off tweaks but with a coordinated, cross‑stack effort that spans the OS shell, DirectX and shader delivery, driver and firmware updates, and handheld power/scheduler behavior to reduce...

Microsoft says it's going to make Windows 11 noticeably faster for games — not just incremental tweaks but a cross-stack push that touches the OS, DirectX, driver delivery, and handheld-specific power and scheduler behavior to reduce stutter, speed up first-run experiences, and make Windows...

Windows 11’s gaming story in 2025 reads less like an incremental update and more like a deliberate course correction: handhelds that behave like consoles, meaningful progress for Windows on Arm, and DirectX features that make ray tracing and AI-driven rendering practical beyond demos. These...

Microsoft’s latest pledge to sharpen Windows 11 for gaming in 2026 marks a deliberate shift from feature marketing to system-level engineering — a promise that could change how handhelds, laptops, and desktops prioritize games over background tasks and make Windows a stronger competitor in the...

Microsoft’s Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 is rolling out beyond the ROG Ally and into regular PCs via Insider builds — and early hands‑on tests show a consistent pattern: about 1–2 GB of user‑space memory is reclaimed in console mode, the UI feels smoother and more...

Microsoft has quietly folded a console‑style front door into Windows 11: the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) — a controller‑first, full‑screen shell that began life on Xbox‑designed handhelds — is now available to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels and is rolling out to supported...

The ROG Xbox Ally X attempts something both simple and ambitious: marry a controller‑first Xbox experience with a full Windows 11 handheld that can also double as a dockable mini‑PC for on‑set production work — and it mostly succeeds where hardware matters, while leaving important software and...