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Panic has announced that the Playdate, its $179 portable console with a black-and-white crank and screen, will be available for pre-order in July with shipping starting later in the year. The company doesn’t have a specific date set yet, but says it will provide at least a week’s notice before orders open.
Panic is doing its best to avoid the stock PS5/RTX 3080 situation by implementing its own ordering system. “The sooner you order, the sooner you’ll get one, but we won’t close the door on you,” co-founder Kapil Sasser says in a video update.
The company also advertises a great stereo accessory for the Playdate, which makes it look like an old TV and acts as a Bluetooth speaker and pen holder. Panic has not provided pricing information or released information about the dock yet.
Finally, Panic has announced 21 games out of 24 titles that will appear in the first “season” of Playdate. Details are intentionally kept confidential so that each game is automatically downloaded to the device; Owners will get two games per week for 12 weeks.
Here are the title screens for all 21 games:
Here is the list of games and their developers:
Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure by uvula (Kita Takahashi, Ryan Moehler), Matthew Grimm, and Sean Inman Battleship Judius of TPM.Co Soft Works. Model Birder composed by Diego Garcia with music by Max Coburn Damon Quest 85 by Alex Ashby, Lawrence Bishop, Duncan Fife, Belinda Leung, Jared Emerson Johnson, Equik Memory by Samantha Kalman, Everest Pepkin, Carol Mertz and Rachel Viola Executive Golf DX from For Devemix Flipper Lifter by Serenity in Smoke by Nils Anderson and Christina “castpixel” Neofotistou Hyper Meteor by Vertex Pop (Mobeen Fikree, Robby Duguay, and h heron) Lost Your Marbles by Sweet Baby Inc. & Friends Omaze by Gregory Kogos Pick Back Pop by Nick Magnier and Arthur Hammer (he/he) with music by Logan Gabriel Questy Chase by Dadako Racheter by Sean Inman and Matthew Grimm and Charlie Davis Sasquatchers by Chuck Jordan with music and voice by Jared Emerson Johnson Snack by Zach Gage with Art Nevin Marjan Spielcorcade! Written by Jada Gibbs, Nick Splendor, Ryan Splendor and Tony Gustbright with music A Shell in the Pit (Em Halberstadt) Zipper Composed by Bennett Foddy Saturday Edition by Chris McCris with music A Shell in the Pit (Jord McGladrey, Alfonso Salinas) Whitewater Survey by Chuhai Labs (Giles Goddard, Mark Lintz, Peter Traylor, Hero Liao, Remy Thor, Charlie Marsh, Kinsaku Nakata, Zach Aikman, Mihoko Terao, Kinsey Burke)
Playdate has had a long way to go to reach the market. First announced in May 2019, we got our first look at the console itself the following month.
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