Gaming handhelds are everywhere in 2026, from the Steam Deck to a wave of Android rivals. A new preorder batch usually isn’t big news. The Ayn Odin 3 is different. For most of the past year, it’s been the handheld that fans tell newcomers to buy. Now that Batch 8 preorders are open, it’s worth […]
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Casio turned one of its toughest watch families into a playable Roblox world this week, skipping the usual splashy ad campaign for something players actually have to survive. The new “Challenge the Skate Obby: G-SHOCK” course launched at 3:00 a.m. UTC on July 15, and it’s live right now for anyone with a Roblox account.
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OneXPlayer just opened pre-orders for the OneXPlayer 3, and it’s the first 3-in-1 handheld to ship with Intel’s Arc G3 Extreme chip. Pricing starts at $1,399 on Indiegogo, with an 8.8-inch 144Hz OLED screen and an 85Wh battery leading the spec sheet. That combination puts it in direct range of the Legion Go 2 and
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Lenovo looks set to pull its Legion handheld line in a direction it hasn’t gone before. The first look at the Legion C700 has surfaced, and the early signs point away from the raw local horsepower that defined the Legion Go and Legion Go 2. It’s shaping up as a cloud gaming handheld, with the
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TrimUI has opened preorders for the TrimUI Brick Pro, a $99.99 retro handheld that grows the screen to 3.95 inches while keeping the pocketable shape that made the original Brick a budget favorite. Preorders are live on the TRIMUI Store, with units shipping after June 30, 2026, and an early bird code, BPO10, taking 10
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If you want the most powerful Windows gaming handheld you can buy right now, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ CG3EM is the one to get. It’s MSI’s new flagship, and it’s the first handheld built around Intel’s custom Arc G3 Extreme processor, which makes it a genuine step up from anything running last year’s
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Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance is one of the most recognizable handhelds ever made, and a custom keyboard designer just built a working tribute to it. The KeyBoy Advance is a 50% mechanical keyboard from PromoType, also known as Galo, and it borrows the GBA’s whole silhouette instead of just printing a themed keycap set. It’s
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Retro handhelds have a quiet spending problem. The devices with the deepest, most legitimate libraries tend to be the ones that cost the most, and the cheap ones usually lean on emulation nobody wants to explain out loud. Officially licensed and genuinely affordable rarely land in the same sentence. Price: $69.99 Where to Buy: Hyper
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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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