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 ...

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 ...

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’s been a bumpy road for the three latest additions to the handheld console scene, but after a batch of bad batteries pushed its release to 2022, the quirky Playdate is finally here. Mixing a modern ...

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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.

The cute, portable, and banana yellow $179 Playdate console is now shipping to its first batch of preorder customers, so we’re now free to review the quirkiest gaming system in years. Thanks to chip ...

「なんてクリエイティブなんだ」──。クランク付き携帯ゲーム機「Playdate」を興奮気味にパートナーに見せに行く前に、思わず何度もその言葉を繰り返してしまった。 Playdateは極小といってもいいモノクロのディスプレイを備えており、解像度は400×240 ...

Companies like Apple and Google have struggled to get new products out the door because of the pandemic, so it makes sense that smaller ones would be in the same boat. And while we still don’t know ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...