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November 11, 2021

Every New Handheld Is Now Delayed

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Last July Valve Inc. revealed they were working on a powerful handheld called the Steam Deck — a PC clone that they claim can run virtually anything on the Steam platform. If you were one of the first to preorder the device, you might still be under the impression it will ship to you in one month. It won’t. Valve had to confess today that manufacturing delays mean they won’t be able to sell the Steam Deck on the original date they promised. Anyone who had a reservation for the first batch (originally due out in December 2021) has now been moved to the first quarter of 2022. Those who had a Q1 2022 reserve slot have now been bumped to Q2, and so on. I would say why this is happening, but it’s pretty obvious to anyone who’s kept up with the news over the past six months. COVID caused delays in overseas manufacturing, which caused some parts to become rare and/or expensive, causing the larger companies to over-order

June 8, 2021

Everything You Need To Know About The Playdate

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It’s been a long time since the Playdate was first announced in 2019, and you might have either forgotten about it or assumed it was cancelled. Neither are true…not only is the Playdate project very much alive but they’ve finally committed to a release window. And if you really and truly forgot the Playdate, it’s a quirky yellow handheld device from developer Panic, Inc (Untitled Goose Game) that has a crank for a control. The technology is purposely retro with a black-and-white unlit screen. All its games will be indie, and there will also be accessories like the Playdate Stereo Deck, which charges your Playdate when it’s not in use, changes its shape to a solid square and also has a built-in pencil holder, in case you need it. You don’t buy games for the Playdate….the games find you instead. Two games will be released per week and will auto-download to your device; a nearly full list was revealed today and is posted below. Not only this, Panic will give

May 23, 2019

Make A Playdate For This Retro-Styled Delight

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Our favorite video game projects are the truly offbeat, quirky ones — like most of Nintendo’s experiments, or what Sega was like during the Dreamcast years. Aside from them, no one really takes any chances on crazy ideas. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere game developer Panic (responsible for the hit title Firewatch, among other things) announced they’ve been working on a handheld for the past four years. This is the Playdate, a purposely retro miniature game player with a 2.7-inch NON-backlit display capable of 400×240 pixel graphics in strict black and white. It has a CRANK controller. We’re serious…a pull-out crank that you can use to twist around and control some of the games. What kind of games? Plenty. Many of indie-dom’s star developers lined up to create Playdate games after being shown the thing. Keita Takahashi (Katamari Damacy), Zach Gage (SpellTower), Bennett Foddy (QWOP) and Shaun Inman (The Last Rocket) all created Playdate games that will be released in the first “season” of the handheld’s existence, released one week