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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...

Classic Rare and Ultimate games headed to Evercade

Rare, aka Ultimate, is a totem of British game development and Blaze has a collection of their greatest titles headed to Evercade. 

Celebrating 40 years of the company that other developers wanted to be like, there's a long list of titles across multiple formats, somewhat confusing the Evercade computer/console/arcade branding. 

Ultimate, Rare, Sabre Wulf,

For what its worth, Rare Collection 1 has a red case suggesting mostly console games, even though there are plenty of Spectrum titles and a console release of BattleToads. Coming in 2025 this has to be one of the all time classic compilations. Titles include:


With the cart arriving in November and compatible with all Evercade hardware if this makes you want to join the most fun club in gaming. Note, as cart 48, by my reckoning there's a gap at 47 on the release list, likely to be filled in soon. 


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