Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld

Forget launching new stuffValve is even having problems with existing hardware.

The popular handheld gaming console may not be so easy to find in the coming year, Valve warned shoppers.

Xbox has revealed the second batch of Game Pass additions for February

Valve speaks up on why you can't find a Steam Deck right now.

"Gangsters

With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo The UK's long-promised "Single Trade Window" has quietly run out of steam after burning through more than 111 million ($150 million), with officials confirming the program has been "brought to early closure."

The RAM crisis has claimed yet another victim, with the Steam Deck OLED now out of stock intermittently in multiple regions

Valve has updated the Steam Deck website to say that the Steam Deck OLED may be out of stock "intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages." From a report: The PC gaming handheld has been out of stock in the US and other parts of the world for a few days, and thanks to this update, we now know why

Valve is blaming memory and chip shortages as Steam Deck availability becomes intermittent in several regions

Dont expect the Steam Deck to be easier to get anytime soon

Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile will be no more this spring

The main reason to buy a Switch 2 is to play new Nintendo games, and no other device can (legally) offer that. Likewise, the Switch 2 doesnt even try to offer the flexibility of a Steam Deck, ROG Ally X or even the Retroid Pocket 5

Presidents Day is a great time to buy appliances, mattresses and furniture as they are often on sale for the holiday

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space

When framerate sharing is enabled, "Steam will collect gameplay framerate data, stored without connection to your Steam account but identified with the kind of hardware you are playing on," Valve says. The feature is specifically focused on devices running SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system for the Steam Deck and some third-party handhelds

Lenovos Legion Go S undercuts its original price with a limited-time deal, making it an appealing option for gamers who want better performance without Windows overhead

Steam revealed in its Client Beta patch notes that it will let users show the specifications of their hardware when leaving reviews

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will be available on PC starting on March 19, Kojima Productions has announced at State of Play

ZA/UM Studio has announced that a free demo for Zero Parades: For Dead Spies will be available during Steam Next Fest this month

Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind Highguard , has laid off many staffers

Presidents Day is a great time to buy appliances, mattresses and furniture as they are often on sale for the holiday

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are out of stock in the US, and the RAM crisis looks like it may be responsible again

Speculations on what the Steam Deck 2 might be like have been put on pause people are now more focused on what is going on with the current generation Steam Deck it is out of stock in several regions

Vinyl records are firmly back in rotation , but getting started does not have to mean spending a fortune or building a complicated hi-fi stack from day one

Speculation has risen about component shortages

Less than a week after Valve admitted that the current shortage (and growing prices ) of RAM were affecting its hardware plans, the Steam Deck is completely sold out

Valve hasn't commented on the stock situation.

Presidents Day is a great time to buy appliances, mattresses and furniture as they are often on sale for the holiday

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

The Next 2 is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip and has a massive 115Mh battery under the hood. To put all of that into perspective, the Next 2s display is more than 1.5 inches larger than the Steam Deck OLEDs , and goes bigger than even the Lenovo Legion Go 2 s 8.8-inch panel

Supermassive Games has announced a new release date for the next entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology series

You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents Day, but to say its a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement

With 16 programmable buttons and native Stream Deck support, this Corsair Scimitar Elite SE wireless MMO mouse deal for $79.99 is a steal

For many, a 128GB or 256GB model should be a sweet spot between price and storage space. But if you need more room say, for stashing a bunch of games on a Steam Deck a 512GB card or greater could make more sense and often provides a better cost-per-GB ratio

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

Steam is adding a little more transparency when it comes to Early Access games

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space

Plus: Dexcom updates its app, Fitbit founders create a new family caregiving app, and Blink has a new outdoor security camera.

Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.

Valve says it will stick to the current plan and target the launch of Steam Machine (along with Steam Frame and Steam Controller) within the first half of 2026

You can find a lot of good deals for Presidents Day, but to say its a tech-deal boon would be an overstatement

With over 155 million sold, Nintendos Switch is officially the companys biggest console hit ever

The Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra brings high-end sanitization and advanced obstacle clearance to the floor.

The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead a home console sibling to the Steam Deck

Valve updated fans on the launch plans for the Steam Machine, which is on track to be released in 2026.

After celebrating its fifth anniversary earlier this month, the tough-as-nails survival Viking game Valheim is coming to Switch 2 this year

Presidents Day is a great time to buy appliances, mattresses and furniture as they are often on sale for the holiday

The Steam Machine is a compact cube-like PC for gaming powered by a semi-custom AMD CPU and GPU. Valve said during its announcement that it has roughly six times the horsepower of the Steam Deck and can support 4K gaming at 60 FPS with FSR

After months of consistent decline, Intels consumer CPUs have enjoyed a small but significant spell of market share growth, at least according to the latest Steam Hardware Survey

Valve is reportedly delaying the latest Steam hardware due to uncertainty with memory chip pricing, but it seems to still be on track to arrive during the first half of 2026

Adakah anda pembenci kecerdasan buatan (AI)? Sekiranya ya anda kini mempunyai tiga lagi sebab untuk membencinya kerana Valve mengesahkan pengumuman tarikh serta harga jualan Steam Machine, Steam Controller seta Steam Frame ditangguhkan kerana kekurangan komponen

Valve has pushed back the launch of its Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller hardware from its original Q1 2026 window to a vaguer "first half of the year" target, blaming the ongoing memory and storage shortage that has been squeezing the tech industry

AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su, during the company's latest Q4 2025 earnings call, seemingly confirmed that the release for the new Valve Steam Machine is "on track" to launch during early 2026

Microsoft could launch the next-generation Xbox console sometime in 2027, AMD CEO Lisa Su has revealed during the semiconductor companys latest earnings call

An anonymous reader shares a report: By now, the Forbes 30 Under 30 list has become more than a little notorious for the amount of entrants who go on to be charged with fraud.[...] Gokce Guven, a 26-year-old Turkish national and the founder and CEO of fintech startup Kalder, was charged last week with alleged securities fraud, wire fraud, visa fraud, and aggravated identity theft

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and a single AMD RDNA4 architecture GPU has charted in the PC Video Card Usage tables

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space

Researchers at the University of New South Wales are developing a "reverse solar panel" that generates small amounts of electricity at night by harvesting infrared heat radiated from Earth

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

Steam boleh dikatakan platform pembelian permainan komputer yang terbesar di dunia, walaupun terdapat pelbagai penawaran lain seperti Epic Games Store, GoG dan sebagainya

A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling

Lenovo's original Legion Go is at an excellent new price at Lenovo's Outlet store

Valve's Steam storefront is favoured by a large majority of PC gamers, with generous discounts and pricing, but a lawsuit has called that into question

Fans of co-op beat-em-ups and fictional bass players who kind of suck as human beings might want to mark March 3 on their calendars

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

UK activist hits Valve with a lawsuit for charging gamers too much commission on the games they buy from the Steam store

Wildlight Entertainment's CEO has admitted the studio could have marketed Highguard better following radio silence leading up to its launch

Millions of gamers could get compensation if the lawsuit - which accuses Valve of charging inflated prices - succeeds.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Video game developer and distributor Valve must face a 656 million-pound ($897.7 million) lawsuit in Britain, which alleges it charged publishers excessive commissions for its Steam online store, after a tribunal ruled on Monday the case could continue

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

An anonymous reader shared this report from The Verge: In early December, I brought you the news that Google has begun replacing Verge headlines, and those of our competitors, with AI clickbait nonsense in its content feed [which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Google app's homepage]

Its been a very busy week of fun game releases (next week will be too!), so lets get into some of them after a quick reflection on gaming while traveling. I love my Steam Deck

As such, the P9 makes our list of best microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. The P9 microSD Express is also compatible with the Steam Deck or any other gaming console that accepts the format, as well as cameras

After half a decade of waiting, Microsoft finally offered an extended preview of its long-awaited reboot of the beloved Fable RPG franchise on Thursday

Double Fine has been on a tear with its smaller projects lately

Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops

Adobe has added a suite of AI-powered features to Acrobat that enable users to edit documents through natural language prompts, generate podcast-style audio summaries of their files, and create presentations by pulling content from multiple documents stored in a single workspace

Windows on Arm users will be able to use the Xbox app to purchase, download and stream PC games, and Microsoft says that "more than 85 percent of the Game Pass catalog" now runs on Arm PCs. Unlike Valve's SteamOS, Windows on Arm also supports anti-cheat software like Epic's Easy Anti Cheat, which means you can access a wider library of online multiplayer games in comparison to what you can get on the Steam Deck

An anonymous blog claims that your Steam client continues broadcasting your log-on and log-off times, regardless of your privacy status