ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally is a Windows handheld built around Xbox PC app. The device combines a 7-inch 1920×1080 IPS touchscreen with a 120 Hz refresh rate, plus Xbox-style grips and controls. It is still a full Windows system if you disable the Xbox Full Screen Experience.
The standard model runs on AMD’s Ryzen Z2 A, a 4-core, 8-thread Zen 2 APU
Sony Interactive Entertainment has been granted a US patent for a game controller concept built around a large touchscreen input surface. Video Games Chronicle spotted the filing and published images from the patent documentation.
The drawings show a controller where most of the top face is a touchscreen, instead of fixed buttons. On-screen controls can be placed where a user wants, including moving the D-pad, analog stick zones, and action buttons. The concept also allows resizing controls
To give credit where it’s due, Redditor spotted the page and shared the link in AV1 subreddit. The document is titled “AV2 Bitstream and Decoding Process Specification,” dated January 5, 2026 . It is marked as a release candidate that still awaits formal approval from Alliance for Open Media. In plain terms, this is the rulebook that tells developers how an AV2 video stream is laid out and how a
Acer has revealed White Edition versions of its Nitro Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB and RX 9070 XT OC 16GB graphics cards on its regional sites.
The White Edition appears to be a color refresh. The feature list and core specs match the standard Nitro models shown on other Acer regions. The Nitro Radeon RX 9070 OC White Edition is based on AMD RDNA 4. Acer lists 56 compute units,
While Intel has released a driver that enables multi-frame generation for Arc B-Series integrated graphics, support has not yet arrived for discrete GPUs. That makes it fair to say only NVIDIA ships multi-frame generation support across consumer GPUs right now, but the feature is limited to the RTX 50 series. Users on RTX 20 and RTX 30 cannot use DLSS frame generation at all, unless they
If there’s a handheld that Microsoft shouldn’t break, it’s the Xbox branded one.
Windows 11 users are reporting that Smart App Control is blocking ASUS Armory Crate on the Xbox Ally lineup, including the higher-end Xbox Ally X. When the control app fails, basic handheld functions get harder to manage, even though the hardware is sold as an Xbox-branded experience.
Reddit threads and an ASUS forum discussion describe Windows Security pop-ups claiming
NVIDIA’s Marketplace saw its first Founders Edition restock in over a month, with the GeForce RTX 5090 FE disappearing within minutes. The drop happened in NVIDIA’s German store on January 30. We hear that the stock was similar through other EU stores, so it was most likely one distribution.
Founders Edition GPUs, which is gamers only chance to buy RTX 50 cards at MSRP these days, hasn
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Jensen Huang has publicly acknowledged NVIDIA’s N1 PC processor work with MediaTek. In comments to local media in Taiwan, Huang described the joint project as a system-on-chip designed for “AI computers,” with a focus on low power and high performance.
The N1 branding has been tied to NVIDIA’s push into AI PCs and laptops built around an Arm CPU complex developed with MediaTek. Huang’s remarks are the clearest on
AYANEO has shared more details about the Pocket Play, a gaming phone with a side-slide mechanism that hides a full controller under the screen. The company says the phone will use a 6.8-inch OLED panel (2400 × 1080) with a 165Hz refresh rate.
The slide-out section includes a D-pad, ABXY buttons, and shoulder triggers. The layout also uses dual touchpads instead of physical