The Dino Boy Is a One-Button Handheld Built to Beat Doomscrolling
A handheld with exactly one input sounds like a punchline until you remember the entire Chrome offline dinosaur game was built for a single key.…
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Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 Powers Anbernic's Dual-Screen 3DS Rival
Anbernic announcements usually arrive with a spec sheet and a sub-$100 price tag stapled to the same sentence. The RG DDS breaks the pattern. It's…
Taki Udon's $100 FPGA GBA SP Could Undercut the Analogue Pocket
Retro Remake founder Taki Udon just showed his FPGA GBA SP prototype running Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, and buried in the same post is the number…
ESA Wants Anbernic Labeled a 'Superfake': What's at Stake
For years, the pre-loaded microSD card has been the retro handheld scene's most awkward open secret. You buy an Anbernic, it shows up with thousands…
A $2.50 Right-Angle USB-C Cable Is a Handheld Charging Steal
Two and a half dollars per cable is less than a coffee, and if you own more than one handheld you already know the pain of digging a spare USB-C cord…
DroidDeck 0.4.0 Brings Steam Big Picture to Android Handhelds
The headline on DroidDeck 0.4.0 is a number: 57%. The developers expanded the project's PRoot fast paths and came away with what they describe as up…
AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 Review: Small, Pricey, Powerful
The most important upgrade in the AYANEO Pocket Micro 2 isn't the chip. It's that someone finally rounded the corners. The original Pocket Micro's…
SpruceOS 4.5.4 Adds Offline RetroAchievements and MagicX Support
SpruceOS didn't ship a maintenance drop — 4.5.4 is a real release with a headline feature. Offline RetroAchievements has landed: cached games, cached…
Anbernic's Dual-Screen RG DDS Takes Aim at Retroid Pocket Duo
Anbernic spent 2026 quietly building out its dual-screen ambitions, and this week it tipped its hand with the RG DDS — a clamshell explicitly aimed…
Nintendo Trimmed GameChat to Three Buttons — Here's Why
Hand a first-time user twelve features and they will touch one. That is the whole story behind Nintendo's new developer post on GameChat, and it…
DroidDeck Puts SteamOS Big Picture on Android Handhelds
SteamOS on an Android handheld has meant a weekend of flashing, partition wrangling, and praying the ABL picks the right boot target. DroidDeck…
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…