GamerCard

The GamerCard is a handheld games computer designed by Grant Sinclair and shipped from August 2026, built to the size and shape of a retail gift card. Its defining idea is structural: rather than housing components inside a moulded shell, the device is a stack of printed circuit boards that serve as the chassis, with the screen, controls and battery sandwiched between them. Artwork is etched into the board rather than printed, and the machine ships without packaging, on the reasoning that a product which is its own enclosure does not need one.

Inside is a quad-core Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, driving a 4 inch square IPS display at 254 pixels per inch. Controls are ten tactile snap-dome buttons. There are stereo amplifiers and speakers, a 1600mAh lithium-polymer battery charged over USB-C with three status LEDs, a Qwiic connector for hardware expansion, and a user-accessible microSD slot on the top edge. That slot was a late addition: Sinclair attributed it to the rising cost of memory components under demand for AI data centre infrastructure, framing a bring-your-own card design as the way to keep the device competitively priced.

It ships preloaded with six indie games adapted from their Nintendo Switch releases, including Bloo Kid 2 and AstroBlaze DX, alongside a Raspberry Pi game app carrying Clive Townsend's Saboteur trilogy reworked for the square screen. As a Raspberry Pi device it also runs the standard emulation distributions, including Recalbox, RetroPie and Lakka, with a practical ceiling around the arcade, 8-bit and 16-bit eras.

Pricing runs from £99 for the handheld alone, without a card or games, through £125 with a 32GB card, to £149 with 128GB. The device arrived roughly a year later than originally planned. Grant Sinclair is the nephew of Clive Sinclair, and the GamerCard sits recognisably in that tradition of aggressive miniaturisation sold direct to enthusiasts.