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The recent memory shortage hasn’t just been an issue for mobile and PC manufacturers. The gaming industry is also struggling as Valve, Sony, and Nintendo face higher memory costs and tighter supply. The crisis is driven primarily by AI data centers consuming a massive share of global DRAM and HBM output. Industry …

Valve has never confirmed how many Steam Decks it has sold, but interest is high enough that almost every PC manufacturer has created a competing handheld. Most of the competition, like the ROG Ally and MSI Claw, runs on Windows, which offers an expanded selection of software. Nvidia will help …

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted something steamy. No, not that kind of steamy. Using its spectroscopic instruments, the observatory has found evidence that a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere could be chock-full of water in its gaseous state. If Webb is on the right track, its findings will represent the …

The success of the Steam Deck has led to more handheld PC game machines like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. Some of these machines have better performance and displays than the Steam Deck, but Valve isn’t resting on its laurels. The company has just unveiled the Steam …

The success of the Steam Deck has led to more handheld PC game machines like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go. Some of these machines have better performance and displays than the Steam Deck, but Valve isn’t resting on its laurels. The company has just unveiled the Steam …

Handheld gaming is making a comeback, and hardware companies are reluctant to miss out. Lenovo is said to be making a portable gaming PC to rival Valve’s successful Steam Deck. Called the Legion Go, the device is rumored to capitalize on AMD’s new gaming-focused Phoenix processors to create a lean …

Now that summer has officially arrived, Valve Software has updated its Steam survey to give us an idea of what our fellow gamers use in their rigs. The new survey results are dated July 2023 and include the first appearance of several new GPUs. The most notable debut is the …

Steam supports a wide variety of systems, from the latest Windows-based gaming rigs to the modest Steam Deck Linux handheld. Some older Windows boxes are on the chopping block, though. According to Valve, Steam will soon drop support for Windows 7 and 8. Anyone using those platforms must upgrade, but …

Valve has offered mobile apps on Android and iOS since the early days of the smartphone era, and it’s barely improved the apps since then. That’s changing at last with a complete revamp for the Steam Mobile app. The new version, now live on both platforms, has a more functional …

  Some interesting AMD market share data has emerged over the past few days. A new Mercury Research report indicated AMD lost an additional point of the x86 market for laptops and desktops in Q1 2021. This is the second time AMD has lost market share relative to Intel. AMD …