Xbox Ally X vs. Steam Deck - Which Is Right For You? (Feat. NerdNest)

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

It's another week of The Game Informer Show, and we've got plenty of games to dig into. But first, Bill from NerdNest joins us to discuss his impressions of the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, the latest PC handheld to hit the market. Is it worth the price tag, or is a different portable PC more your speed?

Alex, Marcus, and Eric also dig into Ball X Pit, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Battlefield 6, Bye Sweet Carole, and the early hours of Pokemon Legends: Z-A. It's a packed episode, so grab a warm beverage and get cozy.

The Game Informer Show is a weekly podcast covering the video game industry. Join us every Thursday for chats about your favorite titles – past and present – alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.

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Bill Fairchild (@nerdnest.tv)
Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken)
Marcus Stewart (@marcusstewart7)
Eric Van Allen (@seamoosi)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game
0:13.3	industry.
0:14.3	Join us every week for discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive
0:18.6	reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.
0:23.4	I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, and I'm joined by Marcus Stewart.
0:28.4	How you doing, Marcus?
0:30.3	Hi!
0:32.5	What's up?
0:33.3	It's a reference to our Resident Evil Outbreak Super Replay.
0:38.5	Shout out to George, one of our hapless companions.
0:42.1	He does that a lot.
0:42.9	He just goes, hi!
0:44.5	And then he gets like stabbed.
0:46.1	I saw that y'all are what, seven episodes into that?
0:49.1	How's that going?
0:50.1	It's going great.
0:51.2	We're stuck in scenario three.
0:53.9	We're like in the middle.
0:55.3	We have a key that we don't know the bad lock it goes to yet.
0:58.4	That's our current sort of hurdle.
1:00.0	All of our companions are idiots.
1:04.1	Cindy died because she carried three red herbs that are useless.
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