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ARTICLE – Nintendo’s biggest hardware flop got a second life on Switch Online, and what’s inside the collection tells a more interesting story than anyone expected. Price: $24.99, $99.99 Where to Buy: Nintendo The Virtual Boy, Nintendo’s red-and-black tabletop console from 1995, survived barely a year before disappearing. On February 17, 2026, seven of its […]
7 Reasons the Virtual Boy on Switch Online Works Read More
Every dual screen gaming laptop before this one existed to prove a point, not solve a problem. Manufacturers showed they could fit two screens in one chassis, then left users to figure out why they’d want that. Chassis ran hot to the touch. The weight made the whole thing feel like carrying a small desktop
Dual Screen Laptops Stopped Being a Gimmick Read More
ARTICLE – The Alienware 18 Area-51 with an RTX 5070 just dropped to $2,349.99 on Amazon, a clean 20% off the $2,949.99 list price. Dell’s storefront lists the 18-inch line at the same number, but here’s the catch: that base config swaps in a Core Ultra 7 255HX and an RTX 5060. The RTX 5070
Alienware’s Most Powerful 18-Inch Laptop Hits Its Lowest Price Read More
ARTICLE – Nobody buried the Virtual Boy. Nintendo’s red-and-black tabletop console from 1995 simply vanished on its own, barely lasting twelve months before becoming the company’s most talked-about hardware misfire. Three decades of distance made it look like Nintendo preferred the whole chapter stayed forgotten. Price: $24.99, $99.99 Where to Buy: Nintendo That silence broke
The Virtual Boy Is Back on Switch Online and Strangely Good Read More
People have been waiting for this one, and the whispers turned out to be true. Stern Pinball and The Pokémon Company International have officially teamed up on the first physical Pokemon pinball machine, and it’s not a prototype or a concept. You can order it right now. Three models sit in the lineup: Pro at
The Pokemon Pinball Machine Is Finally Real Read More
NEWS – Razer built its most personal esports collaboration around a rifler whose competitive numbers look made up. The Razer NiKo Collection is a four-piece peripheral set co-designed with Nikola “NiKo” Kovač, the Counter-Strike competitor whose highlight clips look scripted for effect. It covers a mouse, mousepad, keyboard, and headset, all built on hardware NiKo
Razer x NiKo: The CS Legend’s New Gear Collection Is Here Read More
ARTICLE – The smartphone industry spent the last decade telling gamers that glass is good enough. Tap the screen, swipe the virtual joystick zone, clip on a Bluetooth controller when things get serious. Ayaneo, a company that’s built its name on compact Android gaming handhelds, just challenged that assumption directly. The Ayaneo Pocket Play is
Gaming Phone Hides a Controller Under Its Sliding Screen Read More
Gaming laptop collaborations have trained people to expect a sticker job. Print a character on an existing lid, swap one accent color, and call it a special edition. Buyers have seen that formula so many times that most don’t look twice anymore. The Asus ROG Flow Z13-KJP, built with Kojima Productions, skips it entirely. Price:
What A Gaming Tablet Looks Like When Kojima Productions Controls The Design Read More
ARTICLE – Most phone controllers are designed for horizontal play, using a wide grip that puts controls on both sides of the screen. GameSir’s Pocket Taco takes the opposite approach. It’s built for portrait gaming instead, with a clamp on design that sits under your phone and puts the controls below the screen. Price: $34.99
This $35 Controller Brings Back The Game Boy Grip For Your Phone Read More
ARTICLE – Most PS5 owners quietly accept that their preferred controller won’t work on Sony’s console. An Xbox Elite Series 2 that feels perfect in your hands sits unused. A Switch Pro you spent months breaking in collects dust. Third-party adapters exist, but the moment you go wireless, haptic feedback vanishes. Motion controls stop working.
The PS5 Controller Problem Nobody Talks About Has a Fix Now Read More
NEWS – Asus shipped its 32-inch ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM3 gaming monitor to China this week, weeks ahead of the late March window the company floated after CES. The monitor hit JD.com at CNY 8,499, which converts to about $1,225. That undercuts the $1,299 US price Asus mentioned in January, though the company hasn’t confirmed
DisplayPort 2.1 Monitors Keep Promising Full Bandwidth, But This One Actually Delivers It Read More
ARTICLE – Nintendo built these colors in the ’90s, tested them with real consumers, then buried them. Not concept sketches or Photoshop mockups: actual injection-molded consoles with matching controllers, fully functional, sitting in storage until former employees started selling them to collectors years later. Extreme Green, Ocean, Ghost, Glacier, Atomic Purple. They all worked. They
The N64 Prototypes Nintendo Built But Never Released Are Finally Getting Made Read More
Most gaming displays are solving for screen tearing, but Samsung’s betting that competitive players have already moved past that baseline and are now stuck choosing between resolution and ridiculous frame rates. That’s the tension driving this G-SYNC Compatible certification across its 2026 OLED TVs and Odyssey monitors. The real question isn’t whether these screens sync
Samsung’s New Gaming Monitors are Pushing Refresh Rates Past 1,000Hz Read More
ARTICLE – Most portable gaming devices use widescreen displays because smartphone makers spent the past decade normalizing that format. AYANEO’s Pocket S Mini rejects the trend completely, shipping with a 4.2-inch 4:3 screen at 1280 × 960 resolution instead of the 16:9 or 16:10 ratios dominating handheld screens. Finding suppliers willing to manufacture 4:3 displays
This Retro Gaming Handheld Uses the Screen Ratio Everyone Else Stopped Making Read More
ARTICLE – Motion gaming never really went away. It just lost the living room. Microsoft’s Kinect vanished into obscurity, Nintendo’s Wii gathers dust in closets, and for years families had few options to get kids moving without unplugging the console entirely. The Nex Playground changes that calculation. Price: $249 Where to Buy: Amazon, Walmart, Target,
This $249 Nex Playground Motion Gaming Console Outsold Xbox Read More
ARTICLE – Retro gaming hardware typically asks players to adapt. One button layout covers thirty years of design, and you adjust your expectations to match what the hardware can approximate. The Gamestation Go from My Arcade reverses that arrangement by building multiple control methods into a single device and letting each game select what it
Atari Gamestation Go Packs 200+ Retro Titles Into One Feature-Packed Handheld Read More
CES 2026 NEWS – Special edition gaming hardware follows a predictable formula. Take an existing product, add a logo, maybe change the color scheme, charge a premium, and market it to fans who’ll buy anything associated with their favorite franchise. The actual design language rarely changes. The collaboration exists as licensing agreement rather than creative
ASUS ROG Flow Z13 Kojima Edition Read More
NEWS – Best Buy’s Labor Day sale is a great chance to upgrade your gaming experience with some excellent deals on Titan Army gaming monitors. The sale runs from August 25th through September 1st and features two standout monitors: the P2718C and the P2510S Plus. Both offer different features depending on your gaming style and
Titan Army Best Buy Labor Day Deals Read More
REVIEW – I have thoroughly enjoyed several REDMAGIC phones here at The Gadgeteer, but today I get my first crack at one of their gaming tablets. The REDMAGIC Astra gaming tablet is rocking some of the best mobile hardware available in a compact tablet that’s much easier to carry around than a 10-13 inch one.
REVIEW – What do you do when your child has an interest in something you know nothing about? I have a ten year old that wants to be a gamer, and while I don’t know much about that, I can still offer him help in other ways. The NUBWO G06 Dual wireless gaming headset with
NUBWO G06 Dual Wireless Gaming Headset with Microphone review Read More