SleepManager Cuts Android Handheld Standby Drain — No Root Needed
Leave an Android handheld sitting in a case overnight and there's a decent chance it greets you with a battery percentage that has quietly fallen off…
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Muramasa Revenant Blades Is a Handheld Metroidvania Dream
The best moment in Nintendo Everything's 90-minute Muramasa: Revenant Blades preview isn't a boss kill — it's the part where the writer takes a wrong…
Pokémon Bank Dies in 2027 — Your 3DS Shiny Hunts Are Running Out
Pokémon Bank has been the quiet plumbing behind two decades of Pokémon data since 2013 — a cloud locker that let you drag a Charmander off a…
NSO's Wave Race Port Isn't Enough — Switch 2 Needs a Rebirth
Wave Race 64 didn't render water so much as weaponize it. Where every racer before it treated the surface as a texture you drove on, Nintendo built…
Retroid Pocket Nova Buyers Are Getting Empty Boxes
Picture the proof-of-delivery photo: a Retroid Pocket Nova box, the first layer of tape sliced clean through and a second layer pressed over the top.…
The 10 NES Games Switch Online Won't Add — and What to Play Instead
Ten games. Not one of them obscure, and not one of them absent from Nintendo Switch Online because it's bad. Polygon's list of essential NES titles…
Armada Slashes Sleep Drain 50% on Snapdragon Handhelds
Armada's latest changelog reads like a list of the exact complaints ARM handheld owners have been filing for a year. The community SteamOS-on-ARM…
Castlevania's 40th: Free Original Game and a 30FPS Switch Problem
Konami's 40th-anniversary freebie is the easy headline: the original 1986 Castlevania is free on the App Store and Google Play until October 24. But…
Nintendo's $4.5M Piracy Ruling Hits Handheld Emulation
Nintendo didn't need James Williams to show up to win. A US District Judge handed the company a $4.5 million (£3.4m) default judgment against the…
Nintendo's $4.5M Pirate Win Is a Warning to Handheld Modders
A $4.5 million default judgment is a brutal way to lose a lawsuit, and it's the bill James Williams — an alleged moderator of r/SwitchPirates — now…
Retroid Pocket 5 and Flip 2 Hide a 120Hz Display Upgrade
There's a 120Hz panel sitting inside some Retroid Pocket 5 units, waiting for permission to run. Owners found it with a PULSE readout from Kei's…
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire HD Clip Hints at Switch Port
Thirty seconds of Wingull, Mr. Briney, and a fleeing trainer shouldn't be an event. But when an official Pokémon account posts Ruby and Sapphire…