Acer is one of the first out of the gate with a gaming handheld designed around Intel’s new Arc G-Series system-on-chip (SoC) silicon. The Arc G-Series is basically Panther Lake optimized for handhelds, and it is what underpins Acer’s new Predator Atlas 8. There are two main variants, one with an Arc G3 Extreme chip and another with a regular

Pour one out for the golden era of affordable handheld PC gaming, because the Steam Deck’s biggest strength to date, pricing, just became the same weakness as the many competitors it spawned after Valve raised pricing by as much as $300. The price before tax now starts at $789 for the 512GB Steam Deck OLED, while the 1TB model gets uncomfortably