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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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of Panic’s Playdate — besides its lovely crank — is the unique game delivery method that will bring 24 free games to the device. Panic plans to release a season of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today, the company announced that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window and now ship in early 2021.