For the uninitiated, the Playdate is not just Panic’s first-ever gaming handheld; it’s also the company’s first piece of hardware, period. Panic made its name making Mac software like Transmit and ...

Playdate came out two years ago, and it’s still miniscule and yellow with a black-and-white screen and a delightful crank on its side. Today, the device has a built-in library of more than 100 titles, ...

Kevin James and Alan Ritchson in "Playdate" (Credit: Prime Video) What happens when a casual playdate for your kids ends up getting crashed by hitmen? Ideally, that’s something no one actually knows, ...

Here at Stuff, we spend a lot of time looking at gadgets great and small, so it’s inevitable that some of them don’t get as much attention as they probably deserve. It’s not just the Playdate’s design ...

The Playdate isn’t the future of portable video games. Not that it wants to be. Considering that we can run Crysis on electric cars and stream Minecraft on smart refrigerators, the Playdate is ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Playdate console was announced last year, and it looked very interesting--a small handheld with inbuilt games, a black-and-white screen, and a ...

Today’s news: 24 “season one” games, optional stereo, free browser-based dev kit. On Tuesday, Playdate, the portable, one-bit gaming system with an analog crank as a primary control option, took one ...

2022 was the year of the gaming handhelds. We saw portable PCs and cloud gaming devices make a splash, but none stood out to me more than the Playdate. While other devices were interested in giving ...

The teardown artists at iFixit have gotten their hands on the banana-yellow plastic Playdate, the be-cranked retro throwback handheld gaming system we previewed last month ahead of its launch later ...

Pre-orders for Playdate, the stylish, handheld games console announced by manufacturer Panic, Inc. back in 2019, open in July. The device costs $179, the company said on Tuesday. The purchase gets you ...