Linux gaming, handheld PCs, gaming-focused distributions, and the monitors and peripherals that go with them.
Linux rebounds to 4.01% in the July Steam Survey after months of decline, with SteamOS Holo now powering 22% of Linux gaming systems as the Steam Machine begins shipping.
Bazzite's latest stable image bumps the kernel to 7.1.5 and Mesa to 26.1.6, with updated Nvidia drivers, Gamescope, and a new OpenCL ICD loader replacing ocl-icd.
Valve's Steam client beta wires up royalty-free AV1 streaming and HDR support for Remote Play on the Steam Deck.
MagicX teases its first OLED retro handheld with a custom 1,024 x 768 display packed into a pocketable 3.3-inch form factor, delivering roughly 400 PPI.
8BitDo's 32-gram FlipPad magnetically flips onto your phone's screen for zero-latency portrait-mode retro gaming over USB-C, starting at $30.
MagicX reveals two Linux-powered Mini40 handheld variants, swapping the old RK3566 for a beefier RK3572 at $79 or an ultra-budget Allwinner A333 at $59.
Proton 11.0-1 lands as the first stable release on Wine 11.0, fixing broken EA games and adding first-time support for Gothic 1 Classic, X-Plane 12, and classic Resident Evil titles.
Marek Olšák's VRS overhaul in the RADV Vulkan driver can double performance in some Proton/VKD3D scenarios, with 22 patches landing in Mesa 26.2.
Linux drops to 3.69% on Steam in June, shedding two-thirds of its March record, while Proton 11 and FSR 4 keep the gaming stack advancing.
Bazzite turns the Legion Go 2 into more than a gaming handheld, with the Z2 Extreme and OLED display making it a genuinely versatile Linux device.
GPD's next mini gaming laptop packs a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8060S, 128GB unified memory, a 165 Hz screen, and a swappable external battery.
The REDMAGIC Astra 2 runs x86 PC games on Android via a built-in translation layer, backed by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 185 Hz OLED, and active liquid cooling.
Bazzite's latest stable image lands Mesa 26.1.3, KDE Plasma 6.7.1 and GNOME 50.3, plus a reworked Bazaar and Portal welcome flow on the gaming-tuned 7.0.9 kernel.
The ONEXPLAYER X2 handheld pairs Intel's 12-core Arc B390 graphics with a 27.8 cm 120 Hz tablet, 48GB RAM, and detachable hall-effect controllers.
The Retroid Pocket Nova packs a native 4:3 OLED screen at 1280 x 960 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-class silicon, a handheld built to match the way classic consoles actually rendered.
AYANEO's Pocket Micro 2 ditches MediaTek for a Snapdragon 865 and Adreno 650, the same silicon that makes ROCKNIX and Batocera Linux firmware, with native Steam, run well.
Valve's Proton SDK now builds on LLVM 22.1.8, dropping upstreamed patches and adding a vararg exit thunk fix tied to its ARM64EC work for x86-on-ARM emulation.
OneXPlayer 3 is the first handheld with Intel's Arc G3 Extreme, an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED, and an 85Wh battery, and Valve's SteamOS beta already lists it for Linux support.
SteamOS 3.8.10 now installs on any PC, letting you build your own Steam Machine, while Valve sets the prebuilt box at $1,050 with a randomized waitlist.
