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$400k worth of stolen Playdate consoles make heroic return after getting dumped outside a restaurant


If you cast your minds back to March, you may recall the story about some missing Playdate consoles.

During a talk at GDC, company co-founder Cabel Sasser revealed pallets containing $400k worth of Panic's palm-sized, crank-operated console had gone AWOL in Las Vegas. Watch on YouTube Sharing an update on social media platform X, Playdate said its hardware "got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning". It noted having the consoles returned was the "best possible outcome", adding this resolution was the result of "lots of time and detective work" - something the team enjoyed.

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