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The best gaming handhelds for 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 02:00:36

Handheld gaming systems are having a moment. While people have been gaming on the go since the halcyon days of the Game Boy, recent years have brought an avalanche of devices that let you play all sorts of games anywhere you want. But new machines seem to arrive every week, and figuring out which ones are actually worth buying can be overwhelming. Depending on your tastes, the right handheld could be a $70 emulator or an $800 portable PC. To help you narrow things down, we’ve spent months resear

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Fortnite’s return to iPhone and iPad delayed once again in Brazil

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-16 00:25:35

Epic Games has once again postponed the relaunch of Fortnite for iPhone and iPad users in Brazil, citing ongoing negotiations between Apple and the country’s competition authority, CADE. Here’s when it’s expected now. The game’s return was initially scheduled for July Back in March, Epic had announced that Fortnite would return to iOS in Brazil in July through its own Epic Games Store, following a decision by the country’s market regulator that deemed Apple’s anti-steering policy illegal. For

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Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 00:25:03

It’s been a while since I started making web games in JavaScript. In this post, I’d like to share tips that would be helpful for beginners wanting to do the same. Learn JavaScript Outside of Game Development Alongside HTML and CSS This might sound obvious, but I really recommend learning to program before learning game dev. For JavaScript, that means learning the fundamentals of the language and how it integrates with HTML and CSS. Considering that JavaScript is primarily used on the web to m

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Nvidia gives fake Harrison Ford better hair using spheres

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-16 05:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be the first game to get Nvidia’s new RTX Hair features next month. Instead of using triangles to model hair, Nvidia will use spheres to improve Harrison Ford’s virtual hair in the Indiana Jones game. Image: Nvidia RTX Hair is designed to improve li

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Nvidia Will Let You Add Your Own Steam Games to Stream Via GeForce Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 17:30:00

Nvidia's announcements at the 2025 Gamescom show were sprinkled with the usual minor technology refreshes across its software platforms, but the biggest updates are coming to its GeForce Now cloud gaming service. The company upgraded its highest-end GFN server clusters ("pods") used for Ultimate members with its new RTX GeForce 5080-equivalent graphics processors and is in the process of upgrading the network pipeline to deliver faster streams with less latency. In practice, that means a lot of

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Tesla Optimus rival Unitree shines at the 'World Humanoid Robot Games' in China

cnbc.com Eunice Yoon 2025-11-16 23:16:19

The first "World Humanoid Robot Games" is in the books. The three-day competition hosted in Beijing wrapped on Sunday, attracting 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S. Teams used robots manufactured by Chinese companies such as Unitree and Booster. During the games, humanoid athletes competed in dance battles, martial arts, track and field events such as the 400-meter and 1500-meter races and long jump, and a soccer tournament. "Robots have stronger joints and core strength," said G

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NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming gets RTX 5080 GPUs, better image quality and more

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 23:30:40

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service is leveling-up in September with the addition of RTX 5080 GPUs, which will allow for 5K streaming at up to 120fps (or 1080p/320fps for the truly frame-hungry). While you'll need to be on the $20-a-month GeForce Now Ultimate tier to use RTX 5080 streaming servers, NVIDIA at least isn't raising that tier's price. Subscribers at that level will still receive 100 hours of monthly playtime (with 15 hours of rollover), up to eight-hour long sessions and acce

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Game Streaming Will Never Be the Same After Nvidia’s GeForce Now Update

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-16 23:30:24

What if game streaming was your main way to play your games? That idea—once merely a pipedream—is inching closer to reality with Nvidia’s latest update to GeForce Now. Come September, players will be able to rent out a server worth 100GB or more to play whatever game they want, so long as they already own it. Even with more games and better streaming visuals, streaming can’t replace all your gaming gear. But if you were feeling antsy about how much that new PC upgrade or future console could cos

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‘Play Instantly on Discord’: Fortnite will be Nvidia and Discord’s first instant game demo

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-16 23:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting a big upgrade next month — and it’s also part of an intriguing new experiment. Nvidia, Discord, and Epic Games have teamed up for an early test of instant game demos for Discord servers, which could theoretically let you

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Nvidia’s app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-16 23:30:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Nvidia app is getting improvements to DLSS override, more control panel features, and Project G-Assist changes this week. Nvidia has been gradually improving its new app over the past 18 months since its release, and it’s getting closer to fully migrating all the legacy control panel op

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Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-11-16 23:30:00

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s been two and a half years since Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service got a big boost in graphics, latency, and refresh rates — this September, Nvidia’s GFN will officially add its latest Blackwell GPUs. You’ll soon be able to rent what’s effec

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A Nintendo Direct focused on Kirby Air Riders is set for August 19

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:43:55

Nintendo has a few major first-party Nintendo Switch 2 games lined up for the rest of the year. One of those is Kirby Air Riders , a sequel to the 2003 GameCube title Kirby Air Ride. The company is set to reveal much (much) more about what it has in store for the new game, as it has lined up a dedicated Nintendo Direct. You'll be able to watch the showcase, which was first announced via the Nintendo Today! app , at 9AM ET on August 19. You won't have to go hunting for it on Nintendo's channel ei

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A question for the ages: Is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall a good game?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 04:25:35

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; all together, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one,

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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 15:42:00

Annali da Samarcanda Alberto Marnetto's Notebook SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's Stunts Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive, and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island. Sorry about that. Part I This series will tell about the creation of SuperSight, a mod for Stunts intended to bring the game’s 3D engin

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Why the former editor of Polygon is making a podcast for old gamers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-18 10:30:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In a recent episode of Post Games, host Chris Plante explores how video games can help players understand death. He’s interviewing Kaitlin Tremblay, who is working on Ambrosia Sky, a game about death. “What is it about games that is so useful for exploring the topic?” Plante asks. “I think there’s something really lovely about the way in which games invite players in,” Tremb

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A brilliant puzzle-platformer, Enter the Gungeon on mobile and other new indie games worth checking out

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-17 22:00:42

Welcome to our latest recap of what's going on in the indie game space. Quite a few intriguing games dropped this week and some high-profile ones have been ported to more platforms. Before we get to those, though, I'd like to tell you about one of my favorite games of the year so far. I struggle to fully engage with many RPGs. By and large, I'm not interested in spending lots of time optimizing my character, speccing out a skill tree or scouring for the very best equipment to match my playstyle

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The 20 Best Xbox Games Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 00:29:00

Over the past two decades, Microsoft has turned the Xbox brand into a veritable juggernaut in the console gaming world. The Xbox Series X and Series S, the combined fourth generation of the Xbox, have sold over 21 million units. The Xbox One, which was still supported until 2023, sold over 58 million units worldwide. As Microsoft shifts its focus toward supporting console and PC gamers alike with the Game Pass subscription service, there's never been a larger ecosystem of Xbox consoles to choos

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Dead Take’s best scares come from real-life performances

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-18 00:00:00

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Dead Take, the second game from Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios, is a quiet horror game where the monster is ambition and the lengths a person will go for stardom. Like a lot of horror games, Dead Take relies on jumpscares to get the heart pumping. But playing this game, my deepest, most upsetting scares didn

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Beijing's 'Robot Olympics' Are Off and Running (and Falling)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 00:41:00

China just turned a pair of Olympic venues into a playground for robots. The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, running from Aug. 15-17, opened Friday with soccer, sprints, kickboxing and table tennis, as well as a healthy number of face-plants. The games feature 280 robot teams from 16 countries and hundreds of bipedal bots vying for medals and whatever passes for bragging rights among robots. Events are split between two 2022 Winter Olympics landmarks: China's National Stadium and the Nat

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Leak Claims Nov. 14 Release Date, No Switch 2 Version Yet

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 17:15:03

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will be the next entry in Activision's military shooter series, which typically comes out in October every year, making it one of the last big game releases before Black Friday. A leak suggests that the new CoD might come out a little later than usual, but still in time for the big shopping day. Black Ops 7 will reportedly be released on Nov. 14, according to a leaker who goes by the name billbil-kun from a post on the French website Dealabs. Along with the supposed re

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Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Real-Time Battles Forced Me to Think Fast (and I Liked It)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 21:59:29

I wandered the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center days before it would be flooded with tens of thousands of fans for the 2025 Pokemon World Championships, looking for a tucked-away room to get a taste of a game diehard Poke-nerds would give anything to see. For a brief 20 minutes, I got to play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Let's be clear: My time with the upcoming game -- split into two 10-minute sessions -- was hardly enough to reveal every way Z-A will build on its predecessor. The groundbreakin

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What my first five Steam purchases say about me

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-11-19 08:27:58

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. There’s a meme currently going around Bluesky where people are posting their first purchases on Steam. Taking a look presents a neat time capsule, offering a glimpse of who we used to be. It also gives us a chance to compare our gaming habits now with what they were 10 or more years ago — that is, if you’re one of the Olds t

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Bullfrog in the Dungeon

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-11-19 11:10:18

In January of 1995, Electronic Arts bought the prestigious British games studio Bullfrog Productions for an undisclosed sum that was rumored to be in the neighborhood of $45 million. The lives of the 35 or so people who worked at Bullfrog were transformed overnight. Peter Molyneux, the man who had build the studio’s reputation on the back of his “god game” Populous six years earlier, woke up the morning after the contract was signed with real money to spend for the first time in his life. For

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Fortnite login is down

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-21 03:22:09

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Epic Games is looking into a Fortnite login issue that’s “preventing players from getting in reliably,” according to a 6:39PM ET post on the company’s status website. I currently can’t get into the game on my Nintendo Switch 2; when I try, the game shows a message that says “unable to sig

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Steam's censorship issues have broken PayPal support in some regions

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 12:42:23

If you've been unable to pay with PayPal on Steam, Valve says the limitation has to do with issues one of PayPal's banking partners has with content on the platform, according to Rock Paper Shotgun. Users have noticed PayPal was disabled in some regions as far back as July, and the issue seems like it might be out of both Valve and PayPal's hands. "In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the p

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AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-11-21 12:23:50

Getting clones taken down can be an exhausting process for developers. Small studios have less time, energy and resources to dedicate to this process, and they’re at the whims of the digital distribution platforms these games exist on. Wren Brier, Unpacking’s creative director, says that since the game’s release in 2021, developer Witch Beam has reported over 80 clones. “It feels like whack-a-mole sometimes,” Brier says. These are games that are not just similar in nature, but “blatant copyrigh

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Ratatan, a spiritual successor to Patapon, hits early access on September 19

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-22 08:11:19

We have some great news for fans of rhythm games. Ratatan hits Steam early access on September 19 . This is a spiritual successor to one of the most renowned rhythm games of all time, Patapon. The designer behind the original game, Hiroyuki Kotani, is involved. The mechanics here are similar to Patapon and its sequels, but look to be more elaborate . The game tasks players with rhythmically controlling cute little soldiers called Cobuns, but directing these warriors while avoiding damage is eas

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Is streaming about to have a Wordle moment?

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-11-22 17:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s game time for streaming services: a growing number of streamers are betting on casual games as a way to keep viewers hooked when they’ve run out of things to watch. Toronto-based Zone-ify added free casual games to its ad-supported streaming service in June. Last month, close to 70 casual games arrived on Happykids and Fawesome, two ad-supported streaming services run by streaming startup Future Today.

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Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 09:07:14

Challenge: XR2000 August 10, 2025 Today I’m releasing the XR2000: A programming challenge with extensive science fiction backstory. This is a project I’ve long wanted to make, and it has slowly come to life in the last few years. I love a good puzzle or game that involves programming. Over the years I found a couple of these games that were particularly fun. These really inspired me to start the XR2000. Before explaining more about my new challenge, I want to mention (and recommend) these game

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Tesla’s graphics are about to get Unreal

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-11-24 03:28:25

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla’s in-car visualizations for features like Autopilot and Full Self-Driving might be getting an upgrade with a switch to Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. As reported by Not a Tesla App, Tesla hacker greentheonly says they found evidence of the change in Tesla’s 2025.20 firmware for Tesla Mod

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