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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...

Tropical Zone homebrew trailer brings FPS action to the Vita

With the official Vita games release schedule down to a trickle, its time to start focusing on the homebrew scene bringing legitimate indies to those who have jailbroken their handhelds. That number seems to be booming as the Vita, like the PSP before it, becomes the must-have retro and emulator machine of its time - honorable mention to the Evercade of course. 


Starting us off down this exciting new slope is indie dev VitaHex with a first person shooter, Tropical Zone. Set on an island in a sparkling sea, there's vehicles to use, lots of height to the game, plenty of weapons to fire off and bad guys to shoot, all at a smooth-looking framerate. 

For an early glimpse of a solo developer hard at work, it looks rather impressive. Stick in some missions, secrets and an "out there" Horror Channel or SyFy plot, and we have a game to play. 

If you want to support VitaHex's efforts, jump over on Patreon to keep the good stuff rolling, and check out the Weebly page for many other apps and games. If there's some decent gameplay there, I'd say Tropical Zone should be worthy of a PSN release if a publisher is keen to get involved. 

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