Acer's come up with a novel take on the "can't afford a second gaming laptop" problem: The Nitro Blaze Link is a portable handheld that lets you play games remotely from an Acer Predator or Nitro gaming laptop. It's one of several notable announcements, alongside a big-screen Aspire notebook and a few other products. It's one of those ideas that could work out well -- or not at all. Streaming from a local system to another device, such as a phone, isn't new. Standalone software you can use to enable it on your system is more than 10-years-old, though the OG companies such as Parsec and Liquid Sky have long since pivoted to more commercial uses thanks to acquisitions by Unity and Walmart, respectively. Today, you can DIY it with software such as  Moonlight  or apps like  Steam Link . The potential appeal of a standalone device to serve the same purpose, rather than a phone or tablet, is its larger screen and built-in controllers.…