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Consoles, PCs, handhelds and peripherals: reviews, teardowns and buying advice.
Valve no longer sells a new LCD Steam Deck, so the choice is a $359 refurbished LCD against a $789 OLED. Here is what the extra money buys, from Valve's own specs.
Rather than a list of parts that will be out of stock by Friday, this guide uses the September 2026 Steam Hardware Survey and Nvidia's RTX 5060 specs to show what a budget gaming PC should actually have.
The Game Boy Advance release date was March 21, 2001 in Japan, June 11, 2001 in North America and June 22, 2001 in Europe; here is the launch price, specs, SP and Micro dates and how it ended.
Three settings guides and EA's own requirements page agree on more than they disagree. Here is the common ground, where the advice splits, and how to test it on your machine.
Is the Steam Machine worth it at $1,049? Reviewers love the design and SteamOS and balk at the price, and here is who should still buy it.
After both price rises, the Steam Deck OLED costs $789 and the Switch 2 costs $499.99, a $289 gap. Here is what that money buys in screen, battery, games and everyday use, and who should pick which.
Valve's own September 2026 hardware survey says most Steam users game at 1080p on 32GB of RAM with 16GB of video memory and eight CPU cores. Build to that and the money goes where frames come from.
The Steam Deck OLED is not a faster machine. It has a bigger, brighter screen at 90Hz, a 50Whr battery against 40Whr, Wi-Fi 6E and a smaller 6nm chip. Valve's own spec pages, compared line by line.
The Steam Deck OLED costs $789, the SteamOS Legion Go 2 starts at $1,199. Here is what the $410 gap buys, and who should skip it.
The Xbox Nano Controller is Microsoft's smallest gamepad, at $49.99 with pre-orders open now and a November launch, but battery life and several features are still unstated.
The Analogue Super Nt+ preorder opens Monday, October 19 at 8am PDT, with the Mega Sg+ alongside it at $219.99 each and shipping expected in December 2026.
In the PS5 vs Xbox choice, Sony is now the cheaper way into current-gen in the US, after Xbox raised prices by up to $150 on August 1, 2026.
The best gaming handheld in 2026 depends on where your games live more than on any spec sheet, because memory costs have pushed prices up on almost every device we checked.