Every PS2 and GameCube game was designed for a 4:3 screen. Most Android handhelds ship with 16:9 panels that force black bars or ugly stretching on exactly the content that defines retro emulation. The Retroid Pocket Nova is the first device in this price range to fix that: a dedicated 4.5-inch AMOLED display at 1280 […]
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For years, the fastest way to game seriously on Android meant buying a flagship phone and living with a cramped screen. Tablets were treated as gaming machines only by accident, tuned for reading, streaming, and notes first. That trade-off is starting to look outdated. A new kind of Android gaming tablet is being built around
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Ayaneo’s Pocket Micro 2 launched on June 26 at $239 for the base config, and if you blinked, you missed it. The company that turned a 3:2 Game Boy…
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Valve’s Steam Machine finally has a price and a timeline, and both landed on June 22, 2026. Valve starts inviting reservation holders to buy the compact SteamOS console the week of June 29, 2026, and the base model is priced at $1,049. That’s a long way from the $449 the original 2015 Steam Machine started
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Prime Day is when families finally pull the trigger on a gaming handheld, and there are more good sub-$350 options now than there used to be. The trick is finding family gaming handhelds your kids will actually keep playing after the novelty wears off. We pulled four handhelds that all stay under $350, cover different
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AYANEO just made it official. The company that turned a tiny 3:2 handheld into a cult favorite is building a sequel, and it’s calling the device the Pocket MICRO 2. The reveal arrived as a short teaser on June 15, 2026, and while the full spec sheet isn’t public yet, the framing alone tells you
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Computex 2026 wrapped in Taipei earlier this month. The show gave us the clearest look yet at this year’s gaming laptops. NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series mobile GPUs now ship in laptops from ASUS, MSI, Acer, and smaller brands. Intel’s Arrow Lake refresh and AMD chips also push CPU speed higher. If you’re shopping for a portable
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You opened the goretroid pre-order page expecting $229. The number is now $244, and the 12GB RAM option is gone. The Retroid Pocket 6 launched on October 2025 at $229 for the 8GB tier and $279 for the 12GB, and lost its top tier to the AI memory crunch. Retroid raised the 8GB tier by
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ASUS Republic of Gamers is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating the way you’d expect: with a limited-edition handheld that’s louder, denser, and more ambitious than the one it replaces. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 Bundle was announced on June 1, 2026 from Taipei, and it’s the first Xbox Ally with an OLED display, a
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There’s a moment that hits when you realize you don’t need your gaming desk anymore. You’re sprawled on the couch, your full Steam library running on a screen the size of a paperback, the game you’d usually only touch at your tower hitting settings you’d be smug about on a desktop. That used to be
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