DraStic's Successors Drop Big Updates for Dual-Screen Handhelds
DraStic is dead. Long live DraStic. That's the subtext of last night's twin drops from developer Sapphire Rhonodite: WatermelonDS 0.7.0 and the first…
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DOOM Hits Evercade: Limited Nexus Edition Caps at 3,000 Units
DOOM runs on everything — your Steam Deck, your Switch, that Anbernic in your desk drawer. But the last place you'd expect the father of FPSes to…
Mangmi Air Y Pro Review: PS2 Power Without the Magic
Mangmi's first two handhelds each came with a party trick. The Air X delivered playable PS2 and GameCube emulation below $100 — a price point that…
Ayaneo's $89 GBA Clone Proves Retro Handhelds Can Stay Cheap
Retro handheld pricing in 2026 has been a war of attrition. RAM costs ballooned, budget MSRPs crept upward, and even the Super Pocket took a price…
Switch 2 Outsold GameCube — and It's a Handheld
The GameCube was never a handheld. It was a purple lunchbox of a home console that Nintendo supported for five years, and it ended with 21.74 million…
Anbernic RG Vita Pro v1.15 Adds RG Home and Keymapper
Anbernic has built its reputation on shipping a lot of hardware — sometimes a lot of nearly identical hardware. Software support, though, has…
AYANEO KONKR Pocket Advance Hits $89, Retro DMG Colorway Included
AYANEO finally dropped its worst habit. The KONKR Pocket Advance's new Retro DMG colorway — the obligatory gray-and-red nod to the original Game Boy…
RPCS3 on ARM Gets 60% Faster — Here's Why Your Handheld Wins
One four-line function was eating half of RPCS3's CPU time on ARM hardware. That's the kind of invisible tax that has kept Android handhelds firmly…
Anbernic RG SP Hits $59 Preorder Price, Keeps H700 Alive
The clamshell is back, and it's cheaper than a new game. Anbernic's RG SP has surfaced at $59 for the first 72 hours of preorders, slotting the H700…
Pokémon Gen 1 Recomp: The Handheld Remake Nintendo Never Made
For 30 years, portable Pokémon Red meant emulation: a secondhand Game Boy brain inside a phone app, save states doing the heavy lifting, and a screen…
EverDrive-64 Pro at $169: Why Flash Carts Still Matter to Handhelds
Here's the uncomfortable math: the EverDrive-64 Pro costs $169 — more than plenty of handhelds that will happily play most of the N64 library out of…
Gen1Recomp Turns Pokémon Red/Blue Into a Handheld Essential
Recompilation used to be the N64's party trick. Pokémon just turned it into the Game Boy's second life, and every handheld player should…