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 ...

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 ...

Panic’s Playdate handheld is unlike any other video game system. It has ample storage and supports Bluetooth, but also has a 400 x 240, 1-bit monochrome display and a crank on the side of the system.

I'm hardly someone you could call a gamer in the traditional sense because most of my gaming takes place on a mobile device I call iPhone. That's probably one of the reasons why this super weird new ...

The Playdate is a one-of-a-kind game console with a 2.7 inch screen, not a device on which one might expect to play an MMO. It has everything you would expect in a TMORPG (tiny multiplayer online RPG) ...

Playdate, otherwise known as The Only Handheld That Actually Fits In My Tiny Hands, is almost perfect. It's a small yellow machine with a black-and-white screen and a crank on one side, and it's the ...

Tech company Panic, the group behind the Playdate hand-cranked handheld gaming system, has announced that the price for new orders on the platform will be increasing soon. Recently, Panic devs ...

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 ...

Here at Stuff, we spend a lot of time looking at gadgets great and small, so it’s inevitable that some of them don’t get as much attention as they probably deserve. It’s not just the Playdate’s design ...

Handheld consoles are the best part of games, I reckon. I love them more than any other aspect of this brilliant and difficult medium. Handhelds take games and set them free. They task you with ...

Pre-orders for Playdate, the stylish, handheld games console announced by manufacturer Panic, Inc. back in 2019, open in July. The device costs $179, the company said on Tuesday. The purchase gets you ...