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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...

Roguelike Thy Sword trophies pop up

As you may have noticed, getting a litle bit bored of all the simple-as-beans platformers hitting the Vita recently, but Thy Sword looks like it might have a tiny bit of substance to it, certainly from a design perspective.  For a start, there's procedural and roguelike gameplay, aka replay value.

The PC original is a couple of years old from Thomas Finholm, and trophies have just popped up for a Vita version. It has some epic weapons and lots of death, so should offer more of a challenge than the regular supply of cookie-cutter platformers, some PC gameplay below.


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