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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from 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: 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...

What Sony can learn (very quickly) from the MS E3 show

Just a few things...

1) Don't bang on about exclusive content on multi-platform games, you come across as needy and whiny. If I hear, "we at Sony are proud to have one bit of DLC faster than someone else" more than once, I will be cross.

2) Games with gung-ho soldiers, more bloody dragons, shiny-armored knights, weedy mages and sports cars are now over-exposed. People want to see new and different things. We want kangaroos kicking cheerleaders in the face, giant space otters eating whole moons, where killing a no-name-guard in a shooter, demonstrates the pain and loss to his family, etc.

3) Treat your core IPs with respect. Here's old Halo tarted up, but you can turn that shit off at the touch of a button, really isn't the way to sell something as loved as Master Chief (I might buy an Xbox One just for Halo 5, but not at the rate Microsoft are dragging this out). If Sony wants to reimagine the whole Resistance series, do it religiously with fans in mind, not some marketing gimp with a million big boxes in a warehouse to shift.

4) Apologise for your screw-ups, don't gloss over them and promise you're doing things for the fans! Say the word "Sorry" and try to mean it. We can accept you're all billion dollar corporations trying to make a buck, just say "sorry" properly and get on with it.


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