Valve's redesigned Steam Controller ships today with magnetic thumbsticks, four haptic motors, and wireless support for $99.
Linux 7.1-rc2 finally fixes a two-year-old audio bug on the Steam Deck OLED and brings AMD GPU fixes, NTFS improvements, and AI-driven sched_ext patches.
Morefine's G2 eGPU dock fits an RTX 5060 Ti and Thunderbolt 5 into a 700 g enclosure that turns any mini PC or laptop into a gaming rig.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
Banana Pi combines its RK3588 SBC with an ORBBEC Gemini 2 depth camera, creating a tripod-mounted edge AI platform with 6 TOPS NPU and 10-meter depth sensing.
A DMI quirk finally restores audio on the Steam Deck OLED in mainline Linux, fixing a regression that has persisted since the 6.8 kernel cycle.
Kuycon's P20 offers a 28.2-inch 4.5K IPS panel with a 3:2 aspect ratio, 192 PPI, 10-bit color, and DDC/CI support across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Volla's new IP68 Android handset ships with a user-replaceable 5,300 mAh battery and a choice of Ubuntu Touch or de-Googled Volla OS at checkout.
Bazzite's latest stable image moves to Linux 6.19.14, ships Mesa 26.0.5 and Gamescope 137, and adds a new kernel module package for Framework laptop hardware.
Anbernic's RG Rotate handheld pairs a 720 x 720 pivoting display with a Unisoc T618 chip, Android 12, and PS2/Wii emulation, starting at $88.
M5Stack's $48 Cardputer Mesh Kit pairs an ESP32-S3 handheld with a Semtech SX1262 LoRa radio and multi-constellation GNSS for off-grid Meshtastic messaging.
Linux gaming on Steam settled at 4.52 percent in April 2026 after March's record 5.33 percent peak, with SteamOS Holo accounting for roughly 23 percent of Linux gamers.
An open source drop-in PCB replaces the Google Home Mini's internals with an ESP32-S3 and XMOS audio processor, turning it into a fully local Home Assistant voice assistant.
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 brings server-side encryption for sync jobs, parallel group transfers, and official S3 storage backend support on a Debian 13.4 base with kernel 7.0 and ZFS 2.4.
