Being mid-session, fully settled into a game, only to then be able to stick the Joy-Cons on and walk off with your Nintendo Switch is cool. Very cool. You go on about your life and game as if nothing ...

Handheld gaming is arguably bigger in 2025 than it ever has been. Between platforms like the Steam Deck, PlayStation Portal, ROG Ally, and of course, the Nintendo Switch family of consoles, gaming ...

Nintendo has a surprisingly long and rich history. Founded in 1889, the year U.S. President Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated and just twenty years after Japan's Meiji Restoration, it began as a ...

When it comes to handhelds, Nintendo is indisputably the king. They weren't the first in the market—and increasingly good mobile games have carved their own niche too—but there's no doubt that ...

Nintendo has dominated and largely been the only developer seriously interested in and invested in handheld gaming. Others saw it as a compromise for the industry: smaller screens, weaker hardware, ...

A few years ago, one could easily say that the market for handheld consoles was pretty much finished. Remember when kids swapped Pokémon cartridges on the bus or got lost in Final Fantasy Tactics on ...

Ahead of the October 16th launch date of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally, one question has lingered in this the minds of more than a few gamers: how does this new gaming handheld actually compare to the ...

When you think of the best gaming handheld devices, your mind might wander to the Game Boy or Nintendo DS you grew up with. But did you know that today’s handhelds let you play blockbuster PC games on ...

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Jake Valentine is a Staff Writer at DualShockers with more than two decades of experience covering the video game industry. Since 2004, he has written about games across news, reviews, guides, lists, ...