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Best handheld gaming PC in 2026: my recommendations for the best portable powerhouses

By Jacob Ridley last updated

Portable PC PC gaming is officially portable now, and these handheld gaming PCs are the best around.

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Left: Steam logo, right: Tim Sweeney, chief executive officer of Epic Games Inc., after an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Sweeney renewed his attack on the duopoly power of Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.s Google as the worlds dominant mobile platforms at a conference in Seoul Tuesday. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney claims 'Valve has held gaming back for years'

By Andy Chalk Published

news Sweeney says locking developers into the "walled garden" of Steamworks is a real problem.

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ANKARA, TURKIYE - JANUARY 02: In this photo illustration, Steam logo is being displayed on a computer phone screen in Ankara, Turkiye on January 02, 2024. (Photo by Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Valve admits Steam has an AI slop and cloning problem, but says 'we don't want to be gatekeepers telling developers which tools they should or shouldn't use'

By Andy Chalk Published

news Steam Next Fest is being flooded with thousands of low-effort games, while developers are becoming reluctant to share their work for fear of seeing it quickly cloned.

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Kane Parsons on set of Backrooms, with a reversed stop sign in the background, a delicious foil for the headline which says he is not stopping making Backrooms stuff
Backrooms director Kane Parsons is currently working on '3 dream projects' while wearing a Valve hoodie—suspicious

By Elie Gould Published

News I'm calling it now—Half-Life 3 will be a patchwork of YouTube shorts.

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Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor for Hardware at PC Gamer, wearing the Steam Frame on his head.
Bassist plays Halloween gig wearing a Steam Frame: 'Interestingly, only one guy asked me about the Frame'

By James Bentley Published

News Even wearing a VR headset couldn't get anyone to talk to the bassist.

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A collage of Steam Next Fest demo screenshots, including a man smoking, a girl driving a car, and a wizard wielding some kind of gore pile
The 50 most-played Steam Next Fest demos include 7 incremental games, 4 AI disclosures, and only one instance of haystack slop

By Shaun Prescott Published

News Ten years ago, this list would have shocked most PC gamers.

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A whole host of Steam PC games can now run locally on a jailbroken PlayStation 5, including Portal, Left 4 Dead 2, and many more

By Andy Edser Published

News I never thought I'd see the day.

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The left and right Steam Frame controllers on the Steam Frame box.
Valve adds CD-ROM support to Steam Frame kernel less than ten minutes after saying it would look into it

By James Bentley Published

News That was fast.

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Steam is broken: It's still up but some users can't log in

By Andy Chalk Published

news A persistent "loading user data" screen may be connected to problems with purchasing and installing games.

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Tim Sweeney speaking at Unreal Fest 2026.
Steam Week in Review: AI disclosures enter the discourse again, as Epic CEO calls them 'just as partisan as mandatory political essays'

By Shaun Prescott Published

Full of Steam All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending October 25.

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