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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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…
Your Steam Deck Is Now a Bluetooth Controller, Thanks to Decky
The Steam Deck has been a PC, an emulation vault, and a portable indie machine. The modding scene now wants it to be a spare controller, too. A new…
Modder's GBA-to-Switch Adapter Rescues Pokemon Before Bank Shutdown
Pokemon Bank shutting down on February 26, 2027 is the sunset date portable Pokemon veterans have been dreading. It cuts the only official route from…
Homebrew Tool Turns Analogue Pocket Into a Game Boy ROM Dumper
Your Analogue Pocket is about to gain a trick that dedicated cartridge dumpers have been doing for years — without leaving the device.…
Genki Manta Puts a Screen and OS Inside a Switch 2 Controller
At $279, the Genki Manta is the most aggressively over-specified controller I've ever seen — and that's before you get to the screen bolted between…
Wii Remote Joycons for Switch 2 Are Real—and Handhelds Win
Gaming's greatest magic wand just got a second life on Nintendo's newest handheld. Modder Kouzex has torn down original Wii Remotes and Switch 2…
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…
Changeable Guardian Estique: New NES Shmup Comes to Switch Aug 6
NES cartridges in 2025? Changeable Guardian Estique said yes — and now the same 8-bit shmup is making its way to Switch eShop on August 6, 2026. This…
Border Phone Wipe Case Puts Handheld Privacy Under Spotlight
A federal case in Atlanta is testing whether using your device's security features is a crime. The U.S. government is prosecuting Sam Tunick, an…
Homemade PS4P Handheld Packs OLED, GTX 750 Fan—But Weighs 2x Steam
The PS4P handheld is the kind of project that makes you marvel at the engineering while wincing at the compromises. Modder wewillmakeitnow has…