While the Nintendo Switch 2 and Steam Deck are the obvious choices for best handheld game consoles, we tested out everything the portable game device market has to offer.

We're all familiar with handheld game systems, namely ones like the DS and PSP. Now with the Switch 2 and Steam Deck, the gap between handhelds and home consoles is so thin it might as well not exist.

Handheld video game consoles have been around for a long time, going back to the days of old Tiger LCD systems, Nintendo’s Game & Watch line of products, and a variety of others. The first was Milton ...

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Twenty years ago, the list of the best handheld consoles was a list of approximately two. Nintendo was riding high with the record-breaking launch of the Nintendo DS, while the less popular but more ...

Attention all videogame auteurs: There’s a new handheld gaming system coming to the market designed pretty explicitly for your inner aesthete. It’s called Playdate, and it’s got a crank on the side of ...

AYANEO has been making Windows and Android handheld game systems for years. But most are feature-packed devices with premium price tags. Some of the company’s Android handhelds have price tags that ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As a lead player in the gaming industry, Nintendo has been around for over four decades, and yet its most popular systems are handheld devices ...

There have been a plethora of handheld video game consoles, going back to the first one, the Microvision from 1979. While many fans know and love consoles like the Nintendo Game Boy and Valve Steam ...