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…
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Airbus Is Steering Its Mars Rover With a Steam Deck
Airbus let documentarian Tom Scott drive its ExoMars rover prototype, and the device in his hands wasn't a bespoke control rig with six screens and a…
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…
Yoniq's $200 PS2 DualShock Handheld Has a Sony Problem
Yoniq's Portal is a PS2 DualShock 2 with a 4.5-inch screen crammed between the grips, and it's the most on-the-nose emulation handheld anyone has…
GPD Win 5 Adds a Cheaper Strix Halo Tier — Battery Not Included
GPD has spent the better part of a year selling a handheld that doesn't ship with a battery, and its newest move is to charge $1,722 for one with…
A Second Wii U Flop Could Have Sent Japan's Gamers to PC
Picture a 2026 where Nintendo ships PC ports and the Switch never happened. That's the alternate timeline Dr Serkan Toto, CEO of the Tokyo-based…
FPGB MINI Manual Reveals a 5x Game Boy Screen and Slow Charger
FunnyPlaying didn't cut a trailer, didn't post a price, and didn't pick a launch date. It published a user manual — and in the retro handheld scene,…
GAMEMT MTX: An $80 Handheld With a Real GBA Cart Slot
The pitch is almost too simple: a $79.99 Linux handheld that reads your original Game Boy Advance cartridges. The GAMEMT MTX has been drifting…
Steam Deck 2 Dodges the RAM Crisis, but the Wait Isn't Over
Pierre-Loup Griffais has a way of making a hardware drought sound like a scheduling preference. Asked whether the memory supply crisis has reshaped…
Your Switch 2 SD Card Can Brick on a Console Update. Here's the Fix
Rosalie Newcombe's 1TB PNY microSD Express card didn't die from a drop, a bend, or a careless eject. It died at a friend's house, mid-Dokapon…
Steam Deck 2 Will Wait for a Real Leap, RAM Crisis or Not
Valve didn't announce a Steam Deck 2 this week. It barely mentioned one — the actual news was registrations opening for the $1,000+ Steam Frame VR…
spruceOS v4.4.0 Goes Stable on Anbernic H700, Adds DS Emulator
Barely a month after spruceOS v4.3.4 shipped as a quiet bug-fix pass, v4.4.0 lands as arguably the largest update this custom firmware has ever seen.…