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AYN Thor vs Steam Deck: $310 Gap, 260g Lighter [2026]

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED has spent nearly three years as the handheld every PC gamer measures new hardware against, and after its May 2026 price hike it now starts at $789. AYN’s Thor takes a completely different route to the same shelf: a clamshell, dual-screen Android device built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2…

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ROG Ally vs Legion Go: 246g Weight Gap, Same Chip [2026]

Three years after their launch, the original ASUS ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go are no longer the flagships of their own product lines. ASUS moved buyers toward the ROG Ally X and the co-branded ROG Xbox Ally, while Lenovo now pushes the Legion Go 2 and Legion Go S. Yet both 2023 originals are…

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How to Use a Capture Card: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]

A capture card sounds like a niche accessory until you try to record clean 4K footage from a PlayStation 5 Pro, an Xbox Series X, or a Nintendo Switch 2 without one. Built-in console recording tools work fine for a quick clip, but they cap out on bitrate, framerate, and flexibility the moment you want…

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Xenia vs Xenia Canary vs Manager: 77x Search Gap [2026]

Type “xenia” into Google and the autocomplete results split almost immediately into three different products that most casual searchers assume are the same thing. Xenia, Xenia Canary, and Xenia Manager are not competing Xbox 360 emulators the way DuckStation and ePSXe compete for PS1 emulation. They are three layers of the same project, and knowing…

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FIDO2 Hardware Security Key Setup: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]

A synced passkey stored in Chrome and backed up to Google Password Manager felt like the end of the password problem. Then, on August 3, 2026, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team published a technical breakdown of an attack family it calls Pass-ta-key, and the picture changed. In its strongest form, the attack pulls a…

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VMware vCenter Bug Hits 361 IPs in 47 Nations [2026]

A single directory traversal bug in VMware vCenter Server has turned into one of the broadest hypervisor-level ransomware campaigns of 2026. Security researchers tracking exploitation of CVE-2026-59310, a CVSS 9.8 flaw in vCenter’s Syslog server, say a suspected China-nexus actor has already compromised 361 victim IP addresses spread across 47 countries, using the access to…

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Handheld as Official Platform Tag [2026]

Microsoft quietly rewrote how Xbox Game Pass describes its own catalog this month. Starting with the September 2026 Wave 1 update published on Xbox Wire on September 1, every new release listing now carries four platform columns instead of three: Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC. That fourth column, absent from Game Pass release…

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How to Set Up GeForce NOW: 12 Steps, $19.99/Mo [2026]

NVIDIA just handed cloud gaming its biggest ecosystem update of the year. At Gamescom 2026, the company confirmed that GeForce NOW is coming to Valve’s Steam Machine and will natively support the new Steam Controller, first on Steam Deck and Steam Machine, with Windows and macOS support to follow later in 2026. Pair that with…

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