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Playdate is getting a second season of games in 2025


A nice Halloween surprise.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. When the Playdate first launched, one of the hooks was that the little yellow handheld came with a “season” of 24 games from notable developers like Keita Takahashi and Zach Gage. There’s also some good news on the hardware front: Panic said that the hard-to-find handheld is available to order now with an expected shipping date of December.

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