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NPC: Next Portable Console

Federico Viticci, John Voorhees

NPC is a podcast about one of the hottest corners of the gaming world: portable hardware. Every other week, Federico Viticci and John Voorhees cover portable gaming news and share their experiences with everything from the simplest retro gaming handhelds to cutting-edge handheld PCs.

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Episodes

105 episodes

  1. Nesting Dolls of Emulation 27:06
  2. Toasted Sandwiches and Dual Screen Delta 30:35
  3. Odin 3: Big Screen, Bigger Battery 22:49
  4. The ESA Comes for Anbernic 23:28
  5. Anbernic Springs the RG DDS on Gamers 23:36
  6. Abxylute Undercuts the MCON 29:51
  7. They Only Made 20 19:53
  8. Ranking All the Genki Switch 2 Grips 28:03
  9. Retroid Pocket Duo Versus the Ayn Thor 25:09
  10. Anbernic Floods the Market 25:36
  11. Inside The Game Band With Sam Rosenthal 38:13
  12. Abxylute Takes Aim at Ohsnap 29:38
  13. Can A Folding Phone Replace Your Handheld 38:21
  14. Recomps, Decomps, and Playable Dioramas 27:11
  15. The Stickless Clamshell Everyone Wanted 25:11
  16. AYANEO Teases a New Game Boy Advance 28:54
  17. SteamOS Comes to Android Handhelds 32:43
  18. PlayStation Pulls the Plug on Physical Discs 33:02
  19. Did You Put Your Email in the Bucket? 34:48
  20. TrimUI Goes Android 29:01
  21. From Gaming Handheld to Pocket Companion 31:48
  22. The RG Rotate Is the Real Deal 44:18
  23. Pictonico! Is WarioWare in Disguise 33:49
  24. The Steam Controller's Comfort and Compromises 41:53
  25. Is the Steam Machine Just Around the Corner? 35:42
  26. The Weirdly Wonderful RG Rotate 31:56
  27. Triggers, Tico, and the Thor Tax 31:12
  28. Forty Thousand Steam Controllers 31:01
  29. The RG Rotate Gets Real 41:27
  30. PAX, the Pocket Taco, and a $900 PlayStation 41:24
  31. Strix Halo Stalls, the Legion Go Returns 30:18
  32. The Switch 2 Software Update Nintendo Should Have Hyped 30:26
  33. Third-Party Switch 2 Controllers Check-In 30:47
  34. Sony's Grand PC Experiment Ends 25:44
  35. Game Hub Is Coming to the Mac 31:40
  36. Running Out of Chips and Into Cocoon 31:00
  37. Folding, Flipping, and a Handheld Heavyweight 30:55
  38. The RG Vita Is a PSP (and Other Handheld Truths) 30:33
  39. Living in the Past: Wii Pizza and the Return of the Virtual Boy 24:07
  40. A Bigger Brick and AYANEO Overload 27:31
  41. Foldables, Fex, and a Forgettable CES 30:57
  42. CES 2026: Foldables, Rollables, and Robot Punches 41:03
  43. The 2025 Handhelds of the Year Awards 37:51
  44. New Phones and Tablets Take Aim at Portable Gaming 27:05
  45. Monster Handhelds and Valve's Big Bet on ARM 31:13
  46. Anbernic Stumbles and SteamOS Dreams 34:07
  47. Living on the Emulation Edge with the Odin 3 32:15
  48. SteamOS Goes Wide: From a Cube to the Frame 38:31
  49. Can RedMagic Shake Up Mobile Gaming with a Liquid-Cooled Phone? 39:32
  50. Retroid Design Controversy and More on Thor 43:10