Tag Archives: handheld

"Our dream is simple: that you wake up on new game day excited to see what you can play next"

Sony CEO Andrew House voiced his concerns about the potential of handheld gaming outside of Asia during the Tokyo Game Show last week, Bloomberg reports. We have not seen that as being a huge market opportunity,” he said, specifically referring to handheld consoles’ potential outside of Asia. He admitted though …

Announcement of Days Gone follows 12 years of handheld Syphon Filter, Resistance and Uncharted spin-offs

North African studio comprised of 48 devs worked on Rayman series, plus Child of Light and Valiant Hearts

Upcoming console rumoured to instead use game carts similar to 3DS handheld

$49 PocketCHIP will come pre-installed with lightweight engine designed for both playing and making

Both original and New 3DS platforms compatible, with editor aiming to ship as a plug-in

Nintendo has emerged victorious after a company claimed that the platform holder’s handheld consoles infringed on its patent. The Quintal Research Group nailed down a patent in 2008 for a ‘computerized information retrieval system’. Such a system, the patent proposes, is described as having a generally rectangular shape, with a …

Cerulean creatures The Smurfs are headed to Nintendo’s handheld in the form of a new mini-game collection. The Smurfs for Nintendo 3DS has been developed by prolific 3DS studio Magic Pockets, the back catalogue of which boasts more than 35 Nintendo handheld titles. The game provides an adventure built around …

Calling any area of the games industry ‘dead’ is something that invariably comes back to haunt the person that said it. Nintendo in the early 2000s? Dead. PC gaming? Dead. Console gaming? Dying. All statements that were proven unequivocally wrong in the fullness of time. And yet when presented with …