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Festive portable deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

This page started for black Friday but has moved on as the deals come and go. I will update across the festive sales, as new portable hardware deals appear. I won't hype them as "pocket change" or "fire sale" like some sites, because that's bollocks.  December deals :  Evercade has 30% off various hardware, depending on the store, check the blog for details .  PlayStation Portal is currently £20 off on Amazon UK  (another £10 off for refurbs)  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 getting 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 Europ...

Starlight Inception developer update, approaching alpha

The Vita's first Kickstarted game is nearing a state of rough completion according to the latest developer update which shares with us a look at the Destroyer fleet in orbit around Earth. The Escape Hatch team says; "we believe we are now at or just past declaring Alpha – a very important milestone for predicting whether we will hit Beta sometime in June/July."


Recent achievements include:

• All models represented in game (though some are still ‘greybox’ assets).
• All UI and UI widgets are accounted for and represented in some sense
• All levels are playable from beginning to end (though potentially missing some production elements that are accounted for (i.e. scripting for or specific objectives, final voicework and art assets)
• All voice and sound are accounted for
• Voice script is finished
• Localization is accounted for
• All single player modes are accounted for and functional
• All multiplayer modes are accounted for and functional
• All features accounted for and functional
• Game functions on all intended platforms
• All ‘Fly Patrol’ levels are accounted for and playable
• Ships can be configured for levels
• Equipping ships with extra equipment works
• Command Points and scoring systems are working first pass
• Trophies are working first pass

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