© Valve/h3LLcreator Portal 2 is one of the first Steam games to show a compatibility rating for Steam Frame, Valve’s upcoming standalone VR headset. The rating was spotted by Brad Lynch, who shared a screenshot of the Steam listing on X.
The game is listed as “Playable” on Steam Frame. This means the game can run on the headset, but it does not pass every check required for a Verified
ASUS has announced the ROG Strix XG129C, a compact secondary display designed for desktop monitoring, streaming controls and app shortcuts. The model is now available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The XG129C uses a 12.3-inch IPS panel with 1920×720 resolution and a 24:9 aspect ratio. ASUS says this format gives the
DXVK 3.0 has been released as a major update for the Direct3D-to-Vulkan translation layer used by Wine, Proton and other compatibility tools. Although DXVK is mostly associated with Linux gaming, it can also be used on Windows by placing replacement Direct3D DLL files inside a game folder.
DXVK 3.0 now uses dxbc-spirv for shader compilation across all supported shader models. According to the
Nintendo Korea has confirmed the new price for Nintendo Switch 2 in South Korea. The console will increase from 648,000 won to 758,000 won on September 1, 2026. This is a 110,000 won increase, or roughly 17%.
Nintendo Korea says the change follows a review of future global business conditions after changes in the market environment. The company also apologized to customers
Gigabyte has listed a new AM5 motherboard under its AORUS lineup. The B850 AORUS ELITE X3D is now available on the company’s official website, which confirms support for AMD Ryzen 9000, Ryzen 8000 and Ryzen 7000 processors.
The board is based on the AMD B850 chipset and appears to have been adde to
New testing by TechSpot shows that NVIDIA App has no measurable impact on game performance when it is only installed or running in the background. The test compared a clean driver-only setup against configurations with NVIDIA App installed, closed, and open in the background.
The test system used a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB with a Ryzen 7 980
Most Steam Machine clones we have seen so far may offer similar specs and similar price, but they have issue competing at the same form factor. There’s simply no way any company can make such a small PC unless they go full custom like Valve (CPU and GPU on a single board). Putting the ITX form factor into a similar size requires some innovative thinking, such as the custom
MetaPCs launches Steamroller, a $1,299 prebuilt gaming PC with SteamOS installed.
MetaPCs has opened preorders for Steamroller, a new gaming desktop listed at $1,299. The system is not interesting only because it uses desktop PC hardware similar to Steam Machine’s. We have already covered prebuilt PCs in a similar price range.
The important part is the operating system. MetaPCs says
Still a long way ahead before Switch becomes “Steam” console.
Yesterday I saw a post on X showing what looked like a SteamOS-like environment running on Nintendo Switch. I saved it to watch later, but by the time we returned, the post appeared to be gone (apparently it broke X terms), which got me curious what I missed. It took some time to find the same material again, but the user has now reposted the
Windows 11 has been shown running on a DDR1 motherboard with AGP graphics, using hardware from a very different PC era. The system is based on an ASRock ConRoe865PE motherboard with Intel i865PE chipset, which originally launched in the early 2000s.
The board supports DDR1 memory and AGP graphics, but it can also run newer LGA775 processors.