MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ review - superlative playing power with familiar Windows handheld caveats

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wants to release a new handheld gaming device in 2027. That’s according to a new profile of the executive in Fortune. The plan suggests a successor to the existing Xbox Ally X manufactured by Asus, though fights over the OS apparently remain an ongoing issue. Fortune states that Sharma wants to release a “next-generation handheld device by the 2027 holiday season,” followed by the next Xbox home console in holiday 2028. Whether the Project Helix “family of devices” includes both is unclear, as is the pricing, though Fortune also reported that Project Helix Xbox consoles could cost as much as $1,800 without subsidies. Perhaps the more interesting tidbit from the article, however, is about an ongoing “turf battle” between the Xbox and Windows teams. Sharma’s team wants software optimized for gaming. The Windows team wants the handheld to use a version of Windows Home as the basis for its OS. Here’s the excerpt: Tensions ran high enough that a senior Xbox executive threatened to scrap the handheld project rather than adopt the Windows build, according to people briefed on the clash.

Handheld PC games could be set for a bit of visual spit 'n' shine, as AMD have confirmed plans to bring FSR 4 – their newest, prettiest upscaling tech – to the kind of dinky Radeon APUs used by portables. AMD Computing & Graphics exec Jack Huynh, speaking to Korean media including The Elec, detailed a two-pronged approach: they’ll make new APUs built with native FSR 4 support, as well as a special version of the upscaler that can run on older integrated graphics chips, both by the end of 2026. That’s what machine translation says, anyway, and I’m aware that overegging a translated report can lead to the terrible fate of a public Jeremy admonishment. But there are multiple references to both the new Radeon chips and the, again this is a translated quote I’m sorry please don’t hurt me, "lightweight" version of FSR 4. It’s the latter you’ll be after if you already own a fairly recent handheld, like the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X or Lenovo Legion Go 2, as the FSR 4 we already have on desktops can be noticeably sharper than cleaner than FSR 3.1 and its predecessors.

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17 years later, Johnny Depp’s take on John Dillinger still commands attention Hollywood has spent decades returning to the Prohibition and Great Depression eras, a time period when gangsters became folk heroes, law enforcement reinvented itself, and the American underworld was undergoing a violent transformation. We’ve seen Brian De Palma capture the larger-than-life pursuit of Al Capone in The Untouchables, while Sam Mendes explored the tragic weight of family ties in Road to Perdition. John Lee Hancock flipped the script to highlight the gritty lawmen hunting Bonnie and Clyde in The Highwaymen. While all of these movies are classics in their own right, none have Johnny Depp as the lead.