The Nitro Blaze 11 launches in Q2 2025 alongside the smaller new Acer Nitro Blaze 8 ($899), which has an 8.8-inch 144Hz display; it omits its bigger sibling's detachable controllers, kickstand, and camera. Stay tuned for our full review.

Steam Deck too dinky for you? Always wished you could purchase a handheld gaming PC capable of obscuring your entire head? Then Acer might just have the answer. The company has just unveiled its new Nitro Blaze 11,

At CES 2025, Acer is launching one of the biggest gaming handhelds on the market in the new Nitro Blaze 11. At CES 2025, Google showed off new features coming to Google TV devices including Gemini integration, far-field mics and proximity sensors and we were on hand to take a look.

The Nitro Blaze 8 and 11 show Acer's staying committed to the portable PC game space, and there's a new folding mobile game controller too.

At CES, Acer announced two new entries to its Nitro Blaze gaming handheld portfolio, with bigger displays and other improvements.

Acer is announcing two new Nitro Blaze gaming handhelds at CES 2025, and one of them, the Nitro Blaze 11, is truly giant with a massive 10.95-inch screen. Seriously, it’s huge — just look at this photo of a person holding it!

The Acer Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11 delivers rapid gameplay and responsiveness, powered by AMD Ryzen ™ 8040 Series processors with up to 39 total AI TOPS, up to 2 TB of storage, and 16 GB LPDDR5x memory.

Handheld gaming PCs have seen a huge resurgence over the past couple of years thanks to the Steam Deck, and now Acer is bringing two more to market at CES with the Nitro Blaze 8 and the Nitro Blaze 11.

Acer’s Nitro Blaze 8, Blaze 11 have larger screens than the handheld competition, but similar AMD-based CPU and graphics. The Blaze also has removable controllers.