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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...

PSP's Star Wars Battlefront 2 heads to overpriced, underdelivering PS+ Premium

I cancelled my PS+ Premium subscription last week, fed up at the lack of effort Sony is putting into the archive. Apparently, that decision is validated by word that Sony can't be bothered updating PS2 emulation and a lack of effort in adding new classics. 

One tiny plus, it seems more PSP games are headed to the PS4/PS5, with news of Star Wars Battlefront 2 heading to the service soon. That's cool but from the early hype that Sony was going to care this time, any sense of interest has rapidly gone off the boil.  

All of which is leading to a major online kerfuffle with unhappy users and Sony reporting falling PS+ numbers, down 1.5 million, for the service since the summer revamp. And that's before the fanboy Xbox Live vs PS+ whining starts up. So, yeah, another botched Sony service? Or does anyone have hope for 2023? 

All I wanted, what I really really wanted, was Ridge Racer (2) from PSP on a big screen to enjoy the perfect iteration of the series again. And they can't even get that right despite the Namco classic being available in some regions. And while Battlefront (on Vita) is fun, we had some great family battles across Vita and PSP in the day, it feels like minimum effort on Sony's part! 

I'll resubscribe to the minimum tier, because Mass Effect Legendary edition, but once they're done, I think that's enough of Sony's screwing around. 

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