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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...

Evercade celebrates all-things retro with a Reimagined video

Five and a half years of Evercade, over 500 games and a host of ways to play. Blaze has built a great little ecosystem that I love as a player, and as a writer, discussing the very regular updates, rather than burbling on about the latest Fortnite map. 

Evercade

And while I generally hate lifestyle videos, I'll tolerate this one celebrating all that effort and showing off the flexibility of the handhelds, Super Pockets, big-screen consoles and bar top arcades in providing endless entertainment.

They make for an impressive display, across every generation up to the PlayStation and N64, and who knows what's next with Activision on board? And what I'd guess is a further hardware refresh for spring 2026 to gain access to later 32-bit systems (cough *Dreamcast*). 


Aside from the promised expansion of the Commodore Amiga and Activision collections, there are plenty more indies, retro-modern titles like Roguecraft DX and Full Void out there, and smaller publishers yet to hit the limelight. Bring on 2026 and the most joyous release list in gaming. 

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