by Nick | May 20, 2025 | Features, Reviews
Anbernic tends to march to its own drum. After a monthly release cycle in 2024, they surprised a lot of fans by staying largely silent in the first quarter of 2025. The anticipated release of the RG557 has come and gone, and that device certainly went in some... 
by Nick | May 15, 2025 | Features
The retro-handhelds landscape we’ve all come to know is in something of a limbo at the moment. Tariffs and trade debacles have complicated the cheap access to capable handhelds, and while we all hope for an eventual return to some semblance of the landscape we... 
by Nick | May 13, 2025 | Features
I came away from my initial impressions of the Anbernic RG557 with the same questions as a lot of other folks in the space. This handheld was certainly nice, but not necessarily the update that the community had hoped for. The sticks were new, sure, but surely not the... 
by Nick | May 6, 2025 | Reviews
This isn’t the first time a handheld has appeared with this moniker. The previous R36 Plus was a terrible clone, looking to capitalize on the R36S success. The R36MAX was another one as it managed to get a few things right, but the inclusion of an odd... 
by Nick | Apr 29, 2025 | Features
In a haze of confusion, stupidity, or just a desire to keep the title of “E-waste King” that Ban has kindly bestowed upon me, I bought another R36S clone system. Actually, that’s letting myself off the hook too easily. I bought another K36S. This one...