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Portable hardware Black Friday deals take off from Nintendo, Evercade and more

 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: 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 before Sep 2025 Big names, including Evercade Alpha Street Fighter and Mega Man bartop arcade, Tomb Raider, all Super Pocke...

Will Fox Engine make for scalable cross-gen Metal Gear games?

Everyone present went "ooh" and "aah" at the Metal Gear 25th anniversary event, as Hideo Kojima showed off the Fox Engine-powered Metal Gear Ground Zeroes. No shots have leaked out of worth, but the likelihood is that Fox Engine can power both this and next generation games, much like Square's Luminous Engine, the new Unreal Engine 4 and so on.


That scalability should also enable future games developed on it to hit the Vita, and there's every reason to think that Kojima's next-gen babies will head our way, as he has put so much into the PSP and Vita so far. It is a shame that Revengeance can't make it across, but that non-Konami engine is clearly less scalable, doing things the Vita can't hope to pull off.

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