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This handheld game console’s display can rotate for landscape or portrait mode

Classic handheld game consoles came with a variety of screen sizes, resolutions, and aspect ratios. And that can make it difficult to find a modern handheld that has a screen perfectly suited to playing retro games designed for some of those consoles: a modern screen that handles Game Boy titles with ease will display black […]

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AYANEO AM02 retro mini PC has a Ryzen 7 7840HS processor, a 4 inch touchscreen display and classic console-inspired design

The AYANEO AM02 is a small desktop computer from a company best known for making handheld gaming PCs. But while this little PC may not have discrete graphics, it’s not hard to see that it’s also designed for gaming. It has a boxy shape and color scheme that borrows heavily from the NES and SNES, […]

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PeakDo’s next-gen handheld game system pairs a Ryzen 7 8840H mini PC with an mmWave wireless console

There are a growing number of portable gaming PCs that pack everything you need for a standalone gaming experience into a handheld. But it takes a lot of processing power to handle modern gaming… and that leads to systems that offer just a few hours of battery life, if that. PeakDo’s handheld game systems are […]

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Retroid Pocket 4 handheld game console now availabel for $149 and up, with Dimensity 900 &1100 processor options

The upcoming Retroid Pocket 4 is a handheld game system with a 4.7 inch HD display, 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, a microSD card reader, support for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2, and a 5,000 mAh battery. Designed for retro gaming, the handheld also features hall sensor joysticks and analog triggers. First announced earlier this […]

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Lichee Pocket 4A is a RISC-V powered handheld game console

Sipeed is continuing to expand its system of devices powered by a removable LM4A system-on-a-module with a RISC-V processor. One of the latest additions to the Sipeed Lichee family is the Lichee Pocket 4A, a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch display and integrated game controllers. There’s no word on how much it will […]

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AYA Neo Pocket S handheld game console with Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 and WiFi coming soon

The AYA Neo Pocket S is an upcoming handheld game console powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 processor. The chip is designed for handheld gaming, and Qualcomm says it offers up to twice the graphics performance of the first-gen processor used in the Razer Edge. AYA first introduced the AYA Neo Pocket S in August, […]

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Lichee Console 4A mini-laptop with a RISC-V processor is shipping soon

The Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is tiny laptop computer with 7 inch display, a QWERTY keyboard, up to 16GB of RAM and up to a 2TB SSD. It’s also one of the only mini-laptops (or laptops at all) to be powered by a RISC-V processor, thanks to support for a Sipeed LM4A computer-on-a-module with a […]

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A growing number of cheap handheld retro game consoles can run mainline Linux

The Steam Deck is probably the best known handheld gaming PC with a Linux-based operating system, but a number of cheap handhelds from companies like Anbernic and Powkiddy also run Linux-based software… but they tend to use custom kernels. But when Phoronix reported this week that developer Chris Morgan submitted some code to bring support […]

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GKD Pixel coming soon (tiny handheld game console with a 2 inch screen)

GameKiddy is starting to show off an upcoming handheld game console that looks like it could be positioned as a competitor to the tiny Anbernic RG Nano. The company began sharing details about the GKD Pixel in September, and now we have more details about the tiny console, which should be available soon from RetroCN. […]