portable gaming

Razer just revealed an expanded collection of gaming peripherals in two uncommon colors: Razer Quartz and Razer Mercury. These two unique color applications have appeared on a limited set of devices before - now they're ready to roll on more devices that don't normally get the extravagant color treatment. Included in the expanded collection are the Razer Viper Ultimate wireless gaming mouse, the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless headphones, the Razer Core X, and Razer's Laptop Stand.

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In the very near future, a Nintendo Switch gaming console should be a bit easier to buy. Nintendo increased production of the Nintendo Switch by a cool 20% according to sources in Asia this week, ready to roll for the oncoming deluge of orders for the holiday season. Nintendo Switch benefited from the unprecedented global pandemic that hit the planet earlier this year, and sales seem to have stuck.

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Android has both DOOM and DOOM II with a set of features that make their first launches look pathetic. The folks at Bethesda responsible for upkeep on the games made the effort to make their most legendary games look and feel fantastic on the mobile platform. They both originally launched in July of 2019, but only NOW can you play the lot with a 120 frames per second image refresh rate!

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An entirely solar-powered gaming device - that's the dream. A team of researchers at TU Delft Sustainable Systems Laboratory believe they've got the key to get this conversation started in a big way. The project goes by the name Engage, and it looks a whole lot like an old-school Game Boy from Nintendo.

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Today the folks at Wizards of the Coast combined two of their biggest brands at long last. Or "at long last" if we're only counting proper sets of Magic cards. The card set is a real-deal official black-bordered Standard-legal set called Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. But wait, you might be saying, didn't the Magic: The Gathering universe cross over with Dungeons & Dragons before? The answer is yes, yes it did.

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This week the folks at Wizards of the Coast have unveiled their full collection of reveal locations for previews of Zendikar Rising! In addition to live streams, users will be able to drop in on the Card Image Gallery and "Variant Card Image Gallery" if they do so dare. This set is ready to roll with previews of cards and new sorts of gameplay starting on the first of September, 2020, going through September 9!

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The game World of Tanks BLITZ was released to Nintendo Switch today. This is a game in which the gamer controls a tank - a fortress on treads with a giant cannon - for free. As it is with most free games, there are in-app purchases, of course - but the game is WELL worth the download for the basics alone.

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Today Microsoft's made clear their intent with Xbox for the future. They want the Xbox gaming experience to be available on all the hardware, all the time. To make this clear, they've coined the term "The New Xbox Experience." In this experience, the user can access Xbox media and play Xbox games whenever, wherever, on whatever.

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As of today, the Pokemon TCG Battle Academy board game experience is in stores around the world. This game is a mix of game types - a bit of the board game, a bit of the card game. To more broadly appeal to people of all ages, the company's taken what already works - the Pokemon card game - and re-worked the basics into a board game of sorts.

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If you've been playing Minecraft Dungeons since launch, you've been playing a little over a month. If you've been playing that long, you might be ready for a DLC already. But for the rest of the world - the people that've not yet gotten in on the action - is it too intimidating to start a game that's already rolling with an expansion just a month after initial release? In any case, the goal for the profit-minded creators at Minecraft is clear.

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Niantic's inadvertently revealed a major Pokemon GO update with Team Rocket in a balloon! A spill of game code for the Pokemon GO iOS version of the game showed a sort of game element that moves around the map. It's almost as if allowing Pokemon friends to rove around the map was a test run for this very awesome realization of one of the original dreams for the game - real-deal moving Pokemon!

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The newest Animal Crossing: Hew Horizons update is a "Free Summer Update" that'll allow you to swim. Where before now you could catch fish with your fishing pole, or leave your island to visit a friend, now you can just... go ahead and jump. Now's the time to explore the ocean! Just in time for the dawn of July, 2020! It's either this or watch Hamilton - or both!

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