This week, Brendon and John cover the ONEXSUGAR Sugar 1 dual-screen handheld, Sony's power-saving and controller updates, and the latest ES-DE update for Android. Then John reports back on the MagicX Zero 40 homework that Brendon gave him last week.

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Links and Show Notes

The Latest Portable Gaming News

• ONEXSUGAR Sugar 1 goes up for preorder
• OneXSugar Playing with the first dual-screen transforming handheld
• ONEXSUGAR Sugar 1 handheld game console hits Indiegogo for $599 (Dual-screen Android handheld game console with a convertible design)
• The Kickstarter for this weird little transforming handheld just went live
• OneXSugar Officially Launches, and It Sure is Something
• Crazy New Take on Dual-Screen Gaming
• Sony's beta controller update - power settings and multi-pairing controllers
• Sony's new PS5 Power Saver mode sounds ideal for a PlayStation handheld The Verge
• New PS5 system update beta previews DualSense wireless controller pairing across multiple devices – PlayStation.Blog
• Sony DualSense Edge
• ES-DE Launches Version 3.3 and Adds New Fucntionality
• Also mentioned:
• Forgotten City

The MagicX Zero 40

• Magic X Zero 40 website

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