Published May 2, 2026, 11:34 AM EDT

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

I've been on a The Legend of Zelda retro gaming kick lately, whether it's revisiting Nintendo 64 classic Ocarina of Time through the excellent unofficial Ship of Harkinian-powered PC port on my ROG Xbox Ally X , or spending time playing the Game Boy Advance's The Minish Cap on Anbernic's GBA SP-like 34XXSP .

This reminded me that when the Steam Deck first released, I spent a long time getting…