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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

 While there's no sign of a discount on the PlayStation Portal or Xbox Ally, portable gamers can still get in on the Black Friday action. From handheld PC gaming devices to Nintendo, there's plenty on offer.  Update: Valve has jumped in with 20% off the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model (down to £279 in the UK) Update: Xbox Ally has various deals (pretty short-lived, but likely gettting cut again for the post Christmas sale).  Update: PlayStation Portal has £20 off the range, bringing the white and black models down to £179, and 30th Anniversary Edition to £189. (Look out for another 5% off at checkout!)  First up is  Evercade offering a clutch of offers on hardware and games on Amazon and across other stores in Europe and US markets.  Not all deals have kicked in yet, but the official list is:  Up to 30% off all cartridges released before September 2025 20% off all hardware released before September 2025 US and Canada to receive 20% off all lines released...
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Private PSP2 Event Shows A Dev-Friendly Approach

The Eurogamer site has some news of a private developer event in London that showed off the PSP2 (NGP) to the folks interested in developing for it.

Among the details are:
  • Developers need to supply advanced plans for new games before getting dev kit.
  • Wipeout was running at full speed purely based on the PS3 port
  • Year one - hardcore games focus, after that comes a wider focus
  • Developers think it is a dream to port and code for

Read the full article for more. The upshot it is it looks like Sony has got everything right this time, apart from availability and launch numbers.

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Also in the UK, developers Rebellion have their full dev tools up and running on PSP2 and are ready to take bids from publishers who want new games or conversions. The Aliens vs. Predator and Star Wars: Battlefront developers also have an unannounced new mutiplayer FPS game to unveil at GDC - which will be one of the first actual game unveilings beyond all the concept work we're seeing

From Japan, I see that Earth Seeker is working on a freakish original title while the Badman team also appear to have a new game up their sleeves.

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