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• AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books

• The People Still Keeping the PSP Alive: PSPunk

• Hands on with the Retroid Pocket Nova; A custom OLED love letter to 4:3 gaming

  So this is my written article covering the Retroid Pocket Nova. This one might be interesting to you because as well as chatting to Retroid, I asked them to share a couple of the early design renders of the Nova with me to feature in here. They said yes, and you can see some of the differences between what they were planning, and what we got! Along with that I chatted to developers like those behind Leaf Studio, rootComputer: the Steam Curator behind Is it 4:3 (the page covering all the PC g...

• Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions

• Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack?

• Is Denuvo's Dominance Finally Beginning to Crack? A New Linux-Based Breakthrough Suggests It Might Be

• WeatherMaster, Open Source, and the Future of Android; An Interview with Pranshul

• A Modern Setup Guide for the PSP-2000 (Jailbreak, Plugins, and More)

  A few weeks ago I wrote about taking a chance on a cheap “junk” PSP-2000 from Japan, replacing its faulty charging port, and ending up with one of the nicest handhelds I own.. One of many PSP’s I’ve bought though. Quite a few people here on Lemmy reached out afterwards asking about jailbreaking, or just sharing that they planned to buy UMDs for it. I guess this article is my answer (or maybe just yet another thinly veiled excuse to write about my favorite old handheld…the PSP) to that. Ra...

• Post #3777883

  Maybe this is just a ‘thing’ I don’t understand (super likely), why are you censoring ‘gamers’? Or any word on Lemmy? Being a mod here, I can tell you with 100% certainty that if you follow our rules, you don’t have to censor any word you’re using like you have to on TikTok.

• GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?

  This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion. They simply shared a post titled: Shall we? 📦💿 With the following image: Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!

• Afterplay and the Push Toward a Steam for Retro Games: An Interview

  I recently had to chat with Patrick, the founder of Afterplay, along with James, the platform’s Head of Emulation, to talk about one of the more interesting projects I’ve spotted lately in in the retro gaming space specifically. Afterplay’s a browser-based retro gaming platform that lets you play classic games on desktop and mobile with cloud saves, cross-device syncing, and a focus on making retro gaming accessible. More recently (and more interestingly to me), it expanded into a storefr...

• The Other Side of Android: My Favorite F-Droid Apps

• Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't on the Play Store

  I just thought it might be fun to write up a very little article recommending three of the free and open-source games I tried and loved from F-droid! Not only do I spend a ton of time on Android systems because I review retro handhelds, but I also enjoy exploring the more unusual corners of the platform, especially when they involve open-source software and games. I’m a daily user of F-droid (and have convinced my whole family to do the same), and turning my attention to the gaming side of thi...

• Hands-on with the Retroid Pocket 6; The 8GB Sweet Spot (my own article/interview!)

  Recently, Retroid asked if I’d be interested in reviewing their latest handheld, the Pocket 6. This one is particularly interesting because, due to what I’ve been calling the “RAM apocalypse,” prices have increased and the 12GB version of the device has been discontinued. On top of that, Retroid also had to scrap an entire handheld (the Pocket G2 pictured below), which came in my favorite color, turquoise, and has now disappeared as well :( These are just some of the many victims in the r...

• The Quiet Modder Behind Some of Handheld Gaming's Most Interesting Hardware Hacks

• Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

• Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player

• Stepping Away from Streaming with the Innioasis Y1 Digital Audio Player (my article)

  Getting a dedicated audio player (they’re not popularly called ‘mp3 players’ any more, now they’re ‘digital audio players’ to the serious!) was brought on by a few reasons. I’m sick of my phone being my ‘does-everything’ device, so I’ve been systematically replacing certain functions with dedicated physical devices: a BOOX e-reader for my books, retro handhelds for gaming, and now I’m ditching streaming music for a proper offline library. I thought I’d write about the devices I’m getting...

• Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player

  Stepping Away from Streaming with the Snowsky Echo Digital Audio Player

• You Don’t Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, and Women Who Share Their Gaming Lives Online (my article)

  Today’s article was just a short one, and engaging in what makes everyone roll their eyes: seeing something happen on Reddit and writing an article about it. To cut it short: Billie Eilish (famous singer) uploaded a picture of her old Nintendo DSi in gallery of images, to her Instagram account Someone shared that on Reddit Half of the comment section slid straight into shitty gamer dude Hell (the other half did not) Some man on Mastodon attacked me Post removed from Reddit when moderators sp...