by Jim Gray | Jan 9, 2026 | News
Ohsnap arrived at CES 2026 with some swagger after shipping 16,000 preorder units of their MCON controller. The company announced two new design iterations: the MCON Slim and MCON Lite. Both are thinner, more affordable alternatives to the original magnetic sliding...
by Jim Gray | Jan 8, 2026 | News
The MiniLoong Pocket 1 is yet another Rockchip RK3566-based handheld, straight out of 2023, and appears to be an attractive but underpowered first outing for the newest contender in the Chinese emulation console wars. Details first surfaced on the SBCGaming subreddit...
by Jim Gray | Jan 6, 2026 | News
GameSir just opened preorders for what might be the most endearingly named gaming peripheral of 2026: the Pocket Taco. If you’ve been scrolling through mobile controller options lately and thinking “what if phone, but game boy?,” this clamp-on...
by Jim Gray | Jan 6, 2026 | Features
The DSpi is a cleverly named, fully 3D‑printable, dual‑screen Linux handheld built around the Raspberry Pi CM5, and pitched as a DS‑focused emulation machine with enough hardware headroom to do a lot more. Creator borpendy describes it as a dual‑screen handheld...
by Jim Gray | Jan 5, 2026 | News
Gorf is one of those arcade games that feels just sort of off, with its chunky sprites, chopped‑up speech, and a grab bag of inspirations that would probably be considered plagiarism today. It launched in 1981 as a five‑stage shooter riffing on Space Invaders and...
