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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...
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Wonder Boy: Monster Land rides to Switch

SEGA AGES next entry in the journey through the publisher's legacy collection is the joyous Wonder Boy: Monster Land. It might have new modes, leaderboards and other fluff, but I just love the simple jumping, dodging, fighting fun of a pure arcade classic. If you enjoyed the modern Wonder Boy, do save some credits for the inspiration! As with Virtua Racing, it arrives at the end of June for around $7.99


It  contains several notable improvements such as a "Power Up New Game" (New Game Plus) feature that can be enabled at any time, even if you haven't beaten the game, allowing you to restart after a Game Over with the same gear.

There are also 3 new challenge modes (Sphinx and Monster Castle time attacks plus the Fire Ball score attack), online leaderboards, a Replay function, and a "Money Hungry Mode." This last item plays off a bug that existed in the arcade original where players would increase the value of any hidden gold by quickly shaking the joystick back and forth. While the unintended bug is enabled by default here, the "Money Hungry Mode" disables it for the truly hardcore!

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