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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...

Tomb Raider PlayStation trilogy vaults onto Evercade's first Giga Cart

The first Giga Cart collection for the Evercade has officially been announced. The Tomb Raider Cartridge Collection with Crystal Dynamics (wot woz Eidos), features the first three Tomb Raider games. These are presumably the PlayStation versions, with Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider II Starring Lara Croft, and Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft bringing their polygonal exploits for a new generation of players in their original format. 

Update, you can now pre-order the EXP-R here on Amazon and the VS-R here, both shipping for the start of August. 


To ram home the joys of nostalgic gaming, there' a full-colour manual and the cart is compatible with all Evercades including the new R models, as the mystery pack-in cart. They will also work on the diminuitive HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket devices.



Releasing in July, and available to pre-order April 30, Tomb Raider marks a sort-of fourth-generation of Evercade releases. After the 8- and 16-bit consoles, computer and arcade titles, we're now moving firmly into 32- and 64-bit territory, after a bit of early tinkering with the likes of some smaller PlayStation games and N64's Glover. 

The arrival of Tomb Raider also gives the Evercade platform its first gaming icon in Lara Croft, who continues to drive sales to this day, some 28 years after her first outing. The original games from Derby's Core Design were published by EIDOS and while the Remastered collection came out a couple of months ago, the originals will always warm the resting places of retro gamers. 

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