For the uninitiated, the Playdate is not just Panic’s first-ever gaming handheld; it’s also the company’s first piece of hardware, period. Panic made its name making Mac software like Transmit and ...

If your Playdate wishlist is anything like mine (endless), here's a good excuse to actually go ahead and free some of those ...

I'm hardly someone you could call a gamer in the traditional sense because most of my gaming takes place on a mobile device I call iPhone. That's probably one of the reasons why this super weird new ...

Tech company Panic, the group behind the Playdate hand-cranked handheld gaming system, has announced that the price for new orders on the platform will be increasing soon. Recently, Panic devs ...

Today’s news: 24 “season one” games, optional stereo, free browser-based dev kit. On Tuesday, Playdate, the portable, one-bit gaming system with an analog crank as a primary control option, took one ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Playdate console was announced last year, and it looked very interesting--a small handheld with inbuilt games, a black-and-white screen, and a ...

Here at Stuff, we spend a lot of time looking at gadgets great and small, so it’s inevitable that some of them don’t get as much attention as they probably deserve. It’s not just the Playdate’s design ...

2022 was the year of the gaming handhelds. We saw portable PCs and cloud gaming devices make a splash, but none stood out to me more than the Playdate. While other devices were interested in giving ...

On March 19, 2026, St. Louis Magazine hosted a Family Playdate at Macklind Make & Play, where families gathered for a fun, ...