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While the Playdate launch included high-profile games from the creators of QWOP and Katamari, it also opened up an opportunity for enterprising game developers.
Panic has just begun shipping the Playdate, its unusual new gaming handheld. Everyone who purchases a Playdate will get access to a full season of 24 games, though you won’t be able to play all of them right away, and the company isn’t sure how people will respond.
Panic’s Playdate is a strange offshoot of the Game Boy, a little yellow handheld with a crank and a library of games from creators like Zach Gage and Keita Takahashi.
December 31st, 2020 Panic Despite the pandemic, it’s been a pretty great year for video game hardware. Microsoft launched the Xbox Series X, a powerful obelisk packing a 12-teraflop GPU, and the smaller Series S, which can run games natively at 1440p resolution. Sony, meanwhile, released the PlayStation 5 and a cheaper Digital Edition that doesn’t come with a disc drive. Both companies are struggling with stock shortages at the moment and a number of user-reported hardware issues. Still, it’s a minor miracle that neither Sony nor Microsoft was forced to delay their next-gen launch. Coun...