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Valve celebrates Steam’s birthday with a $112 discount on the 512GB Steam Deck LCD

Happy Birthday Steam, I guess, now gimme gimme gimme.

It may be a couple years old and not as nice as the refreshed Steam Deck OLED model, but it’s hard to beat even the cheapest Deck when it comes to playing indie games and even some massive open-world AAA titles that are tuned well for it — like Elden Ring. The Steam Deck started out a little buggy and unfinished when it came out in early 2022, but after frequent updates and the addition of new features via software, it’s now an easy recommendation for even the non-tinkering types. Other formidable handhelds have come after it, but many are either clunkier to use (thanks, Windows) or, in the case of the excellent Asus ROG Ally X, much pricier.

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