For the uninitiated, the Playdate is not just Panic’s first-ever gaming handheld; it’s also the company’s first piece of hardware, period. Panic made its name making Mac software like Transmit and ...

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With almost laughably low power, a monochrome screen, and unique controls, niche-micro console Playdate shouldn’t make any sense in a world of modern gaming. Yet it’s near impossible not to love it.

Today, at Panic’s first ever Playdate video showcase, the company made a few announcements about its gaming handheld with a hand crank. The most anticipated bit of news is that the device will finally ...

Truly new things don’t come around very often. It feels unintuitive to say — there’s a new streaming show every week, millions of games published to Steam and Itch every day, and plenty of new YouTube ...

For instance, one of my favorites is Whitewater Wipeout, one of two included games when you first boot up your Playdate. You have three chances to show off your surfing skills by using the crank to ...

2022 was the year of the gaming handhelds. We saw portable PCs and cloud gaming devices make a splash, but none stood out to me more than the Playdate. While other devices were interested in giving ...

The Playdate isn’t the future of portable video games. Not that it wants to be. Considering that we can run Crysis on electric cars and stream Minecraft on smart refrigerators, the Playdate is ...

Today’s news: 24 “season one” games, optional stereo, free browser-based dev kit. On Tuesday, Playdate, the portable, one-bit gaming system with an analog crank as a primary control option, took one ...

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Everyone thought it was a little bonkers when Panic announced that they would be making a monochrome handheld gaming machine with a sort of subscription model where you can’t choose the games you get.